'MAGA Inches Closer to a Ghislaine Maxwell Alliance'

"NOT EVEN A MONTH AGO, the idea of Trump supporters openly embracing a convicted child sex trafficker would have been unimaginable. Yet the idea that Maxwell is innocent, or at least was railroaded by the same overzealous prosecutors Trump claims pursued him, is unquestionably starting to circulate in right-wing media. And it’s owed, in part, to Trump’s abrupt pivot into arguing that the entire case is fundamentally flawed."

"As calls for the Epstein files to be released have grown, Trump has begun insisting that evidence in the investigation has been irrevocably tainted by assorted villains—from Barack Obama to James Comey. In doing so, he has raised the question of why Maxwell should be in prison at all. It’s a similar pattern to what happened around the January 6th rioters. Having spent years insisting that the 2020 election was stolen, Trump had laid the predicate to ultimately pardon them."

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