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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMaybe it's just me, but how would pardoning his friend who's a sexual predator of children make him look less guilty?
...I thought all of the refusal to release the Epstein files was to deflect any blame and guilt coming at him from his associations with these sexual predators of children.
If Trump just outright pardons Maxwell, allowing her to escape any real accountability, he'll literally be an open accomplice to her crimes and abuses.

wcmagumba
(4,462 posts)
Jim__
(14,814 posts)Then all the Democrats, who are really guilty, will be exposed.
Just a guess.
gab13by13
(29,056 posts)But, telling Maxwell he will pardon her after the 2028 election and then not pardoning her would be my guess.
Krasnov wants a Quid pro Nothing
FHRRK
(1,160 posts)And will not be tricked into delivering any goods prior to getting paid.
As for political death, not with Repukes. Look at the R support for him in Gallup, 90 percent. So basically every fucking R you know, every fucking one of them. Because those not supporting him will fold and follow the herd given any reason.
The mistake we have been making for a decade is thinking there is an off ramp for these people. I realized in about 2017 there wasnt.
Then in 2024 I slipped again, and thought there is no fucking way that Trump will get more votes than he did in 2020. That there is no fucking way that Americans/Repubs as a group is that bad. Ooooopppps!
Repukes wont give a shit if he pardons her, they will all fall in line. And the rest of us all see the next steps they will take, so we better start planning using the assumption that every Repuke will support mass round up of all Liberals, asset seizures, concentration camps, etc.
tulipsandroses
(7,770 posts)Then they don't have to answer questions about it. They can just say she got off on a technicality and blame the Supreme Court.
Democrats should start using the phrase " Sweetheart deal" to describe what is going on.
She is looking for the same kind of sweetheart deal that her buddy got and this administration appears willing to dish out another sweetheart deal to a known pedophile.
I was driving while her lawyer gave his press conference, I stream the news when I'm driving. I had to turn it off. I literally felt sick as he was talking about how she has been treated unfair. Using the language that trump uses for himself.
hlthe2b
(110,810 posts)-with "the devil," for her silence is somehow less damning. For his most foregone cultist supporters, maybe, but anyone with two functioning brain cells, no.
Traildogbob
(11,569 posts)Has zero concern about What he LOOKS like, all that matters is HIS judges say, NOT guilty. And Fox says it over and over. Fuck the victims.
Happy Hoosier
(9,025 posts)And given teh performance of media of the the last 10 years, he could well be right.
Johonny
(24,264 posts)That said he committed obstruction of justice 10 times which prevented a conclusion on his links to Russia's 2016 election interference was good enough for his base to nod their heads everytime he says Russian hoax. It works on the really really stupid people.
H2O Man
(77,542 posts)Your first sentence says it all.