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https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/trumps-dumb-act-on-ghislane-maxwell-pardon-fooled-no-one.htmlTrumps Dumb Act on Ghislane Maxwell Pardon Fooled No One
By Margaret Hartmann

Hey, if you were president, would you pardon a person convicted of child sex trafficking? Most people would say no. And theyd probably answer even faster if their friendship with said sex trafficker was at the center of one of the biggest scandals of their presidency.
Donald Trump went with a different tactic on Monday. During an Oval Office press conference, CNNs Kaitlan Collins asked the president if hed consider pardoning Ghislane Maxwell, now that the Supreme Court has declined to review the 2021 conviction of Jeffrey Epsteins accomplice.
I havent heard the name in so long, he said. I can say this: Id have to take a look at it.
Trump suggested he was totally ignorant of Maxwells appeal, asking Collins for details. Well, Ill take a look at it, he repeated. I will speak to the DOJ. I wouldnt consider it or not consider it. I dont know anything about it, but Ill speak to the DOJ.
Then Trump tried to deflect by noting that Sean Combs another old pal recently convicted of sex-related offenses had already asked him for a pardon.
I have a lot of people that have asked me for pardons. Uh, I call him Puff Daddy. Hes asked me for a pardon, he said.
Trump was trying to merely play dumb, but hes actually an idiot if he thought this strategy would work.
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Attilatheblond
(7,460 posts)she has hold of his balls in that photo? We know she still as a grip on him to this very day.
dalton99a
(90,689 posts)
Irish_Dem
(76,142 posts)She has the goods on him.
Dead to rights.
And Trump knows it.
B.See
(6,978 posts)he thinks his CULT are the idiots.
How'd he come to that conclusion? I wonder.
RANDYWILDMAN
(3,098 posts)is contradictory to his only Trump can fix it and Trump was right and knows about everything routine.
It just proves his followers are the marks every time and he can deceive them by doing absolutely nothing.
Anyone who follows and pays attention and thinks for themselves, know's when he says he doesn't know anything about it. he is in the know everything about, two he is guilty of it and finally that he is going to pardon who ever did to keep his role silent!
I hope the History writers are paying attention we are rolling back everything he ever did, take him off the wall and getting rid of every stain that this person has ever done to this country.
Norrrm
(3,112 posts)Consider all the republicans running against their democrat opponents on 'moral' grounds.
Be sure to point out their party stalwart who would consider a pardon for a convicted sex trafficker.