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BumRushDaShow

(167,253 posts)
Mon Feb 9, 2026, 06:11 PM 8 hrs ago

Khanna says Maxwell should be sent back to maximum security prison

Source: The Hill

02/09/26 3:13 PM ET


After Ghislaine Maxwell’s closed-door deposition before the House Oversight Committee on Monday, Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) said she should be transferred back to the maximum security prison in Florida she was moved out of last summer.

Khanna, a member of the committee, wrote on social platform X that Maxwell refused “to answer a single question about the men who raped underage girls, saying she would only do so” if she received clemency from President Trump. “She must immediately be sent back to the maximum security prison where she belongs,” the California Democrat added.

During her testimony on the committee’s probe into the Jeffrey Epstein case, Maxwell invoked her Fifth Amendment right to avoid self-incrimination. Her attorney, David Oscar Markus, fired back at Khanna, writing on X that he “wants to punish someone for invoking a constitutional right.”

“Sending someone to harsher confinement because they invoke a constitutional right is something we associate with authoritarian regimes, not the United States Congress. Sad,” Markus added.

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5729972-khanna-maxwell-deposition-fifth-prison/



The irony and hypocrisy is breathtaking.
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Khanna says Maxwell should be sent back to maximum security prison (Original Post) BumRushDaShow 8 hrs ago OP
"Authoritarian regime"?!? What the motherfuck do you think we're fucking in the middle of right now, Pedo Protector? SoFlaBro 8 hrs ago #1
"Sending someone to harsher confinement because they invoke a constitutional right... EarlG 8 hrs ago #2
They have constitutional rights? MW67 7 hrs ago #3
In his defense MW67 7 hrs ago #4
'Guardians Of Pedophiles' is pretty darned good. 70sEraVet 5 hrs ago #5
This is what congressional democrats should be running against at this point fujiyamasan 1 hr ago #7
Are you fucking kidding me Aviation Pro 5 hrs ago #6

EarlG

(23,508 posts)
2. "Sending someone to harsher confinement because they invoke a constitutional right...
Mon Feb 9, 2026, 06:25 PM
8 hrs ago

... is something we associate with authoritarian regimes."

Uh... it was the authoritarian regime that let this convicted child sex trafficker out of maximum security prison in the first place.

fujiyamasan

(1,445 posts)
7. This is what congressional democrats should be running against at this point
Tue Feb 10, 2026, 01:36 AM
1 hr ago

God knows if the shoe was on the other foot…

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