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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-   
      
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