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While taking questions on his way to Scotland, Trump repeatedly held open the possibility of pardoning Maxwell for her crimes.

“Well, I don’t want to talk about that,” Trump said initially.

When pressed, he said, “It’s something I haven’t thought about,” while conspicuously adding, “I’m allowed to do it.”

This wouldn’t be the first time Trump has appeared to dangle a pardon over someone providing evidence that could impact him personally and politically. (In this case, he has demonstrated past personal ties to Epstein, and his administration is scrambling to clean up its botched handling of the Epstein files after previously promising to release them.)

A similar situation played out during the Russia investigation, when Trump repeatedly left open the possibility of pardoning key witnesses like Paul Manafort, Michael Flynn and Michael Cohen. Critics alleged this amounted to obstruction of justice.

Special counsel Robert Mueller’s report didn’t draw conclusions on possible obstruction, but it did cite Trump’s pardon comments as “evidence” that Trump’s actions “had the potential to influence Manafort’s decision whether to cooperate with the government.”

Manafort indeed wound up being a decidedly uncooperative witness, with a bipartisan Senate report saying his repeated lies hamstrung its own investigation. And Trump later pardoned him in a move that could certainly be understood as a reward for his lack of cooperation.

That bit of history looms large here, given the parallels.

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[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago

Totally what a normal, not guilty person would say.

[–] ProfThadBach@lemmy.world 84 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Here are all of the Epstein Files that have either been leaked or released.

https://joshwho.net/EpsteinList/gov.uscourts.nysd.447706.1320.0-combined.pdf (verified court documents)

https://joshwho.net/EpsteinList/black-book-unredacted.pdf (verified pre-Bondi) Trump is on page 85, or pdf pg. 80

Trump’s name is circled. The circled individuals are the ones involved in the trafficking ring according to the person who originally released the book. These people would be “The List “ Here is the story.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsiKUXrlcac

Here's the flight logs https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21165424-epstein-flight-logs-released-in-usa-vs-maxwell/

—————————other Epstein Information

https://cdn.factcheck.org/UploadedFiles/Johnson_TrumpEpstein_Calif_Lawsuit.pdf here’s a court doc of Epstein and Trump raping a 13 yr old together.

Some people think this claim is a hoax. Here is Katies testimony on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnib-OORRRo

Epstein’s Ex Says He Boasted About Being a Mossad Agent https://share.google/jLMGahKlCzfV1RHZq Epstein and Israel both hired lawyer Alan Dershowitz, who says he's building 'legal dream team' to defend Israel in court and on internationally | The Times of Israel https://share.google/Lb9hDOduBWG4Elpid

Epstein Docs: https://ia600705.us.archive.org/21/items/epsteindocs/

Epstein Bribes/Payments: 1 BILLION+ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7IrEi-ybzs

—————————other Trump information:

Here's trump admitting to peeping on 14-15 year old girls at around 1:40 on the Howard Stern Radio Show: https://youtu.be/iFaQL_kv_QY

Trump's promise to his daughter: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-ivanka-trump-dating-promise_n_57ee98cbe4b024a52d2ead02 “I have a deal with her. She’s 17 and doing great ― Ivanka. She made me promise, swear to her that I would never date a girl younger than her,” Trump said. “So as she grows older, the field is getting very limited.”

Trump's modeling agency was probably part of Jeffreys pipeline: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/08/donald-trump-model-management-illegal-immigration/

A good summary of Trump-Epstein timeline: https://thepresidential.medium.com/we-have-been-gaslit-about-donald-trump-and-jeffrey-epstein-for-four-years-fbda67c20f75

• ⁠Much of this info can also be found on: https://theepsteindocs.com/

Feel free to do your part and spread this info around so it is never “lost”.

[–] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

Saved hopefully this all true and hopefully this all comes out and takes him down. But we need something on Vance too. Unfortunately fucking couches isn't illegal.

[–] Oyml77@lemmy.today 51 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Trump absolutely fucked kids with Epstein.

[–] arin@lemmy.world 30 points 1 week ago (1 children)

And apparently his daughter knew about it

[–] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 26 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I think lots of wealthy Republicans knew but didn't care so long as Trump gave them the supreme court and their tax cuts, and now even if Trump finally goes down that scum is just going to use Vance like a sock puppet and keep getting everything they want

[–] kautau@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Once Vance becomes president Peter Thiel is going to use him to get what he wants. He's been grooming Vance for it

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jd-vance-trump-vp-peter-thiel-billionaire/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Enlightenment

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 days ago

I doubt Vance could even survive the remainder of Trump's term without being impeached. The Teflon armor isn't transferrable.

[–] BananaTrifleViolin@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago

I actually hope he does it because it'll fuel the conspiracy theories in MAGA - "did she lie and did he do a deal with her for her pardon?". He's stupid enough.

[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Why have the oligarchs turned against the Cheeto recently? What did he do to anger Murdoch et al.?

[–] AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Fuck he's probably in on it too. I wouldn't be surprised if he's going to release those health reports and be "too sick and frail for jail time."

He steps aside and Vance steps in.

[–] kautau@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

"Vance steps in."

[–] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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Theil: "I've got a lunch." leaves

[–] skozzii@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

DON'T LOOK HERE, LOOK OVER THERE.