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Nobody saw this coming. I mean nobody. Yesterday, the Times ran another electrifying story headlined, “After Ghislaine Maxwell Interview, Concerns Mount Over Possibility of a Trump Pardon.” Pardon concerns mount! In the passive voice! By themselves!

Yesterday, in the warm, cozy, Sunshine State climate, “Todd Blanche,
Attorney General Pam Bondi’s top deputy, concluded a second extraordinary
day of interviews with Ms. Maxwell,” the article explained.

In other words, after years of Biden Administration stonewalling (and file padding), Ghislaine Maxwell got a two-day DOJ interview faster than Little Caesars could deliver a jailhouse pizza. And not just any random DOJ interviewer, either. They didn’t send some junior prosecutor with a legal
pad who used to work for Maurene Comey.

They sent Trump’s former personal defense attorney turned Deputy Attorney General— the DOJ’s second in command.

Comparing it to a deposition, two days of DOJ interviews requires at least
four days of prep time. In other words, DOJ’s number two cleared his
calender for this. It wasn’t an interview; it was a mission.

Democrats, who ten minutes ago were pounding podiums demanding full transparency of the carefully curated Biden FBI files, were shocked to
discover that Trump has another untainted source of information— Ghislaine Maxwell, chilling in a Florida prison like a long-forgotten, sealed box in
the bottom of the evidence locker.

Now Democrats are suddenly sweating like an OnlyFans producer in church.

“The Blanche-Maxwell discussion,” the Times soberly reported, “has stoked concerns from critics of Mr. Trump that he may grant Ms. Maxwell a
reprieve.” (Unnamed critics, of course.)

Ghislaine is unspoiled evidence. Astonishingly, no one had ever bothered interviewing her before. Not during the original Epstein investigation,
not during her trial, not during five years of media blackout, strategic amnesia, and hot-potato footwork with the Epstein client list. And now,
after she spilled the tea for ten hours over two days to Trump’s former
lawyer turned top DOJ official, suddenly it’s a constitutional crisis.

Maxwell’s lawyer, David Markus, said DOJ officials had “asked about every possible thing imaginable.” Todd Blanche asked Maxwell about over 100
named individuals, and she dished the dirt. Markus said his client
“answered every single question asked of her over the last day and a
half.” Uh oh.

It was the most hilariously ironic twist yet. Late yesterday, reporters (obviously primed by someone) demanded to know whether Trump would pardon Maxwell in exchange for her testimony. President Trump, classically noncommital, replied, “I’m allowed to do it, but it’s something I haven’t thought about.”

Democrats are losing their minds. Senate minority leader Chuck “Chuckie” Schumer wildly speculated it was “some kind of a corrupt deal so that she
can exonerate Donald Trump.” A lone protester (haha!) at the courthouse,
Lisa Lloyd, 64, told rapt Times reporters, “This is wrong. Anyone who is concerned with justice should be appalled by this.”

The reporters didn’t get the pardon idea from Trump, Todd Blanche, or
Maxwell’s lawyer. “We haven’t spoken to the president or anybody about a
pardon just yet,” Markus said. “The president this morning said he had the power to do so. We hope he exercises that power.”

So let’s add this up. First, Democrats demand full transparency. Then, as
soon as Trump sends DOJ’s second-in-command to find the facts, they
started rioting like caged rhesus monkeys who just found out the banana shipment got rerouted to El Paso and incinerated. A pardon would be a
travesty of justice!

Reporters sure have short memories. What about Biden’s pardons? That was
what, less than 12 months ago? Remember that aging but remarkably spry
human cockroach, Fauci? Or Biden’s entire family? Or the grotesque January
6th Committee— none of whom refused their pardons in principle?

Apart from Epstein himself —who is currently unavailable due to an
unfortunate mishap of being suicided in a poorly run, high-security
federal facility in New York— there is no better witness on Earth than Ghislaine Maxwell. Maxwell might even be better than Epstein.

As Miami Herald investigative reporter Julie K. Brown has said many times, man-baby Epstein never did anything for himself. No. Maxwell did it for
him.

Epstein was the front of the house. Maxwell was the kitchen, the
accounting department, and the security system. She holds the map, the manifest, and —most importantly— the motive. This is exactly why the
political class is panicking. Because it wasn’t just an airy, high-level interview. This was an authorized data download from the last living hard drive, carefully preserved in a Florida (not New York) prison.

The reason they are floating the pardon issue is simple: they’re
desperately trying to discredit Ghislaine Maxwell before her testimony surfaces. It’s narrative preemption—classic information warfare. If she
names someone inconvenient, say, Chuck Schumer, the response is already
baked into the narrative custard: She only said that to get herself out of prison!

But it won’t work. The reason will become clear in a couple more
paragraphs.

The FBI’s years-long non-investigation of Epstein is backfiring
spectacularly. In a sane world, by now Maxwell would have sat for
thousands of hours of interviews, if only to get herself out of ‘the hole’
and be assigned to laundry duty.

The Times insinuated (not very subtly) that Trump is dangling a pardon to
get Maxwell to clear his name. But … what is he supposed to do? Not
question the best living witness? And as recently as yesterday’s edition,
the Times demanded all the Epstein evidence come out.

Seriously, you just can’t please these people.

They thought they had Trump right where they wanted him, dead to rights,
with a compromised FBI file. But one news cycle later, the press, the Democrats, and the entire institutional ecosystem are flailing like they
just realized the ground they’ve been standing on might be made of
quicksand.

Trump didn’t resist interviewing Maxwell. He didn’t drag it out. He didn’t
get into a highly public battle with Maxwell’s lawyers. He could’ve easily
put Maxwell in a legal box where she’d have pleaded the Fifth Amendment if they’d asked her whether she wanted bologna or plain rice for lunch.

Now, haha, Democrats are being forced to pivot again, and pre-bunk the
exact same evidence they were just demanding be produced.

I’ll end with this bit of speculation:

https://floppingaces.net/most-wanted/trump-just-activated-the-last-hard- drive-why-the-maxwell-files-have-dc-in-full-panic-mode/

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