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Dulcinea

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Sun Aug 3, 2025, 11:38 AM Aug 3

Opinion - If Trump saves Maxwell, he will destroy everything he promised [View all]

(The Hill) A little over six months into President Trump’s second term, the Jeffrey Epstein stench still lingers. It clings to headlines, fuels whispers, infects backroom dealings. It refuses to be buried.

And now, Ghislaine Maxwell — convicted child trafficker and Epstein’s chief enabler — resurfaces with a proposition: congressional testimony, in exchange for a pardon.

The truly alarming development isn’t Maxwell’s calculated gambit — it is that Trump appears to be listening, particularly with Newsmax personalities like Greg Kelly painting her as some misunderstood victim of prosecutorial overreach.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/opinion-trump-saves-maxwell-destroy-180000577.html

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