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Waiting Out the Epstein Storm: Why Maxwell Thinks Trump Might Grant a Pardon Later (4/22/26) · The Epstein Chronicles

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  Speaker 1: What's up, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the
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  Epstein Chronicles. In the history of bad ideas, I don't
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  know if there's ever been an ideal worse than Glanne
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  Maxwell getting a pardon. Now. I used to think that
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  Donald Trump wouldn't be so stupid, but now I don't know.
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  In fact, I'm leaning towards Donald Trump. Gibven Galan Maxwell
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  that pardon at some point, probably when he's leaving office
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  as one last FU to the Epstein survivors. But I
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  think that the likelihood of that happening is pretty good,
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  especially considering Donald Trump is out here calling it a hoax,
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  saying it's all just a bunch of bs, and we
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  all know that he used to be friends with Glaane Maxwell,
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  with Jeffrey Epstein. Is he looking to throw his friend
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  a little bone, no pun intended, and try to help
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  himself At the same time, She's already been moved, and
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  that move itself goes against every single protocol that it's
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  on the books for the BOP. So we've already had
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  that and nothing came of it. Nobody's even talking about
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  it anymore, like it's no big deal. Ah, You know what,
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  Glenn Maxwell was moved for no reason, no good reason,
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  and it went against every single precedent and protocol that's
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  on the books. No hearings about that. We're not gonna
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  subpoena whoever's in charge of the Goop, whoever's in charge
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  of Tallahassee, who's ever in charge of Camp Brian, to
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  get to the bottom of it. The truth is they
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  don't want to get to the bottom of it. The
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  truth is it's all a hustle. And the truth is
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  Glainne Maxwell belongs under the prison, not sitting in some
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  camp eating Chick fil A talking about a pardon. Today's
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  article is from The Independent, and the headline Glen Maxwell's
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  lawyer thinks Trump will partner for Epstein related crimes. There's
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  a good chance. This article was authored by Brendan Rassius
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  Gahlenn Maxwell's lawyer believes Donald Trump is likely to pardon
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  the convicted sex trafficker and longtime associate of Jeffrey Epstein.
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  According to a newer report, I mean, at this point,
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  what would it matter at least for Donald Trump's reputation.
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  I mean, not like it's gonna be any worse for him.
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  All the people that support him will just show up
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  and have all kinds of explanations for his behavior. Gleainne's
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  part of the plan. The storm's coming. She was working
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  on the inside to take Epstein down with the circacle
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  of mar A Lago. You know the dumb shit they say,
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  And that's what they'll do. They'll just move the goalposts,
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  they'll gaslight people, and then the people that want to believe,
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  you know, that Donald Trump's this hero, they're just gonna
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  believe it anyway. But the truth is Donald Trump is
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  responsible for this whole cover up. He's the one in charge.
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  And I think that considering all of that, and considering
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  the way he's been very vocal about this in public.
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  I mean, he told the DOJ to target his enemies
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  that were friendly with Epstein. He's literally giving the game away.
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  So do you really think that he wouldn't go so
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  far as pardoning Glaine Maxwell. I have to reevaluate my
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  whole entire opinion on it, because I don't think Donald
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  Trump cares any more about the optics when it comes
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  to Epstein, So why would he care about Gallaine Maxwell
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  going free? He thinks it's all a hoax. I don't
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  know what the percentages are David Oscar Marcus, Maxwell's attorney.
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  He told Politico there's a good chance, and for a
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  good reason, that she would get a pardon. Oh yeah,
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  real good reason. Maybe we should go into the transcripts
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  and read word for word what the survivors had to
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  say about Gallainne Maxwell at the trial. You know, when
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  Caroline was testifying or when Annie was testifying. Those transcripts
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  are available for anyone to see. But sure, Glaine Maxwell
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  is being done wrong. Glainne Maxwell is a scapegoat. Take
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  that shit and bring it with you all the way
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  to the next Moon launch, because I don't want to
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  hear it. Marcus described his client as a scapegoat who
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  never would have been prosecuted if Epstein had not died
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  by suicide while in prison in twenty nineteen. How do
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  we know he died by suicide, Haley Fuchs, You've done
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  enough of these articles to know not to use that
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  kind of language. But he said he has not yet
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  spoken to the White House about a potential pardon, and
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  suggested she will need to be patient. Yeah, until the
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  end of the term. Come on, Oscar. David Marcus is
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  another one. He thinks he's slick. He thinks he's cute,
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  but really his narrative's bullshit, and everything he says about
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  his client, Golian Maxwell is garbage. Your client convicted sex
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  trafficker and child abuserr bro, That's what she is. You
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  can try and change the narrative all you want, but
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  the facts are what the facts are. Maxwell obviously wants clemency.
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  He said, there's no secret about that. I don't think
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  now is the best time to do it with everything
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  going on. Yeah, wait till things calm down. Is that
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  what you're saying? So that they can do it undercover
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  one day when you know, I don't know, someone launches
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  a tactical nuke the next day, Golian Maxwell get the
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  pardon because they'll have the cover they need. And I'm
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  only being half facetious when I say that. Then there's
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  the other theory that I have that Trump just doesn't
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  care and he'll just do it and then tell you
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  to go get fucked. He already called you a trader.
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  He already said he doesn't want your vote if you
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  think Epstein's rew, So what does he care. It's not
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  like mag is going to bounce on him over Epstein.
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  In fact, they're tightening the ranks. Trump previously said he's
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  not given a much thought to the possibility of granting
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  Maxwell clemency, but he has not ruled it out. Late
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  last year, he told reporters he would speak to the
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  DOJ about it. The idea has been floated as Epstein
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  and his crimes continue to grab the nation's attention. Some
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  have suggested a pardon for Maxwell so she can detail
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  other people allegedly involved in Epstein's crimes. Oh, give me
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  a break, Give me a break. Tell me you don't
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  know how trials work without telling me. Glenn Maxwell is
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  a destroyed witness. Nothing she says can be taken seriously.
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  She's already been charged with perjury twice and she would
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  have been convicted, but they ended up dropping it as
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  part of her deal when she got convicted on the
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  other crimes. So please stop the bs. Can you imagine
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  Glenn Maxwell getting on the witness stand and Mark Agnefilo
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  launching questions at her, cross examining her, or maybe Tenny
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  Garrigos or maybe Alan Jackson. How do you think that's
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  going to end up? A White House spokesperson referred to
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  the Independent to the President's previous comments as well as
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  remarks from Press Secretary Caroline Levitt during which she said
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  that Trump was not considering a pardon for Maxwell. A
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  number of lawmakers, particularly Democrats, have express strong opposition to
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  the notion of granting Maxwell any form of reprieve. Look,
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  any human being who has looked at any of the
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  evidence should feel that same way. Anybody talking about Glane
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  Maxwell getting a pardon is mentally disturbed. Representative Robert Garcia,
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  a California Democrat, told Politico that pardoning Maxwell would be
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  disgusting and outrageous, noting that she helped Jeffrey Epstein traffic
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  young women and girls. The brother of Virginia roberts In,
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  Epstein's survivor, who died last year, told MEC News in
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  September that a pardon would be the biggest slap in
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  the face for us as a family and to these girls. Oh,
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  it would be bad news. I have to tell you,
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  it would really be bad. There's a lot of people
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  that would traumatize, like you would not believe, a lot
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  of people would be very scared. Well, you think Glaine
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  Maxwell is not going to show up with a grudge,
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  She most certainly would, and with all the money she
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  has and all the people she knows could get real
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  dangerous for people. I don't think twenty years is enough,
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  he added, I think that people that are able to
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  put that kind of evil out into the world should
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  be locked away forever. Look, I agree, and that's why
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  I wanted this to be Rico. She would have got
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  hit with money laundering, wire fraud, you name it, and
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  she would have ended up in prison for the rest
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  of her life. The Epstein scandal has dominated headlines like
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  few other stories, and haunted the Trump administration for months.
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  Last year, at Congress past the Epstein Files Transparency Act,
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  requiring the Department of Justice to release all its documents
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  on Epstein. Although the Department missed the laws deadline, it
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  has since published millions of pages, many of which mentioned
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  Trump and other prominent figures. The House Oversight Committee is
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  now probing Epstein's network and has interviewed several individuals, including
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  former President Bill Clinton and Alio billionaire Less Wexner, who
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  had close ties to Epstein. An appearance in the files
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  does not mean wrongdoing, and many people, including Trump, have
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  said that they had nothing to do with Epstein's crimes.
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  Maxwell's lies are at the heart of the controversy. In
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  twenty twenty two, she was convicted on multiple sex crime charges,
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  including sex trafficking of a minor, making her the only
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  Epstein co conspirator to be tried and found guilty. She
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  was sentenced to twenty years in prison and has maintained
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  her innocence. Last October, Supreme Court denied her appeal seeking
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  a review of whether prosecutors had fairly brought the case
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  against her. That decision left the White House as her
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  only remaining path to getting out of prison. And you
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  see why she reacted the way she did, and you
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  see why she answered the questions that Blanche was asking
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  her the way she did. And Todd Blanche bro should
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  be ashamed of himself. Imagine being a law man and
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  softball and Glanne mac like that. It is absurd. I
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  don't think I've ever seen anything in the realm of
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  depositions or interviews that even comes close to how softball
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  that was. While serving out her sentence in Florida, she
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  took part in a lengthy interview with then Deputy Attorney
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  General Todd Blanche, the president's former attorney. During their sit down,
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  Maxwell said she never saw Trump engage in any kind
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  of inappropriate behavior. And while that might be the case,
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  the cover up that's going on is certainly inappropriate, and
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  its behavior that Trump is engaging in, and at some
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  point that's going to be the focus. Shortly afterwards, she
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  was moved to a minimum security prison in Texas, a
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  transfer that Trump said he knew nothing about. Yeah, no idea.
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  Everybody just does whatever they want in the Trump administration
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  and Donald Trump has no say, so is that really
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  what he's saying. In February, Maxwell invoked her Fifth Amendment
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  right and refused to answer questions during a virtual appearance
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  before the House Oversight Committee. At the time, Marcus said
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  his clients prepared to speak fully and honestly if granted
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  clemency by President Trump. Well, she doesn't have an honest
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  bone in her body, so I don't believe anything she's
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  saying anyway, And if she had anything of substance to
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  give up, she would have gave it up previously. But
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  as far as Trump giving her a pardon, I would
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  say it's about twenty five percent that he does, maybe
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  even closer to fifty because if Trump says that this
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  is the hoax, then he probably thinks that Calne Maxwell
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  is being wrongly accused and wrongly imprisoned, and of course
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  Trump might see that as a you know, another reason,
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  another way to dunk on the Libs. So he might
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  do it just out of spite and under normal circumstances
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  with normal people, I would never even believe that, But
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  I think Donald Trump has shown us just how spiteful
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  he can be, so I have no doubt that he'd
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  have no problem pardning Glenn Maxwell and ignoring all the
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  criticism that he ends up getting. He'll just call that
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  a hoax too. But the real hoax here is the
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  one that Donald Trump performed on people that believed them
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  when he said that he cared about the Epstein files,
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  that he cared about the survivors, and that there was
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  going to be transparency. But instead we got the shit
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  show that we're living through now. And considering all of that,
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  I don't find the proposition of Donald Trump partnering Glenn
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  Maxwell to be that insane. In fact, as the days
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  go by, I find it to be more likely. All
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