THE OTHER SIDE: The Ghislaine Maxwell/Donald Trump cover-up (Part One)
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Putting aside for the moment the likelihood that he himself was in the files, Donald Trump knew most of all that he needed to win a second term if he did not want to end up in jail. So, pleasing MAGA was central to the mission. And Donald often promised that if they gave him another shot at the presidency, the Epstein files would be released during his very first days. Of course, Donald Trump makes promises like others breathe. And it helps that he hardly ever remembers what it is that he’ has promised—and almost never keeps those promises. But this time around, he failed to appreciate how truly dedicated the far right was to its conspiracy theories. He just did not appreciate the fact that the image of those Democratic bigwigs flying to Epstein Island for Epstein’s underaged girls was permanently burned in their brains.
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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene on Monday appeared to send a pointed message to President Donald Trump: If the Department of Justice does not release more information on disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, his supporters will no longer stand behind him. Without naming Epstein, the Georgia Republican on social media said the president is ‘dangling’ only bits of information to his supporters despite promises during the 2024 campaign that his administration would be transparent with the public. ‘If you tell the base of people, who support you, of deep state treasonous crimes, election interference, blackmail, and rich powerful elite evil cabals, then you must take down every enemy of The People …If not,’ she continued, ‘The base will turn and there’s no going back. Dangling bits of red meat no longer satisfies. They want the whole steak dinner and will accept nothing else.’
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Irony times a million. Congratulating Donald Trump, potential third party, for his deep commitment to the truth while Pam Bondi dispatches Todd Blanche to see truth-telling Ghislaine. Bondi and Blanche are, of course, the two chief DOJ officials who continue to relentlessly punish/prosecute Kilmar Abrego Garcia for resisting their attempts to deny him his habeas corpus rights—that is, after illegally deporting him to a Salvadoran hellhole. Then, most recently, they pressured him to falsely admit to their trumped-up charges of having trafficked juveniles by threatening to send him to Sudan.
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https://theberkshireedge.com/the-other-side-the-ghislaine-maxwell-donald-trump-cover-up-part-one/
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This is a long read, but it gives a good chronology of events for anyone not up to date on the specifics.