Whose heads is she in right this minute?
On the heels of a firestorm of MAGA criticism of Donald Trump’s Department of Justice, demands for AG Pam Bondi’s firing, and Trump’s crazed demands that everyone stop talking about Epstein, The Daily Mail now claims that Ghislaine Maxwell, currently serving 20 years for sex-trafficking young girls for him, “is willing to speak in front of Congress about The Epstein Files.”
Maxwell’s silver hammer threatens to come down on several heads. If she lives to see the day. Social media already predicts “Ghislaine Maxwell didn’t hang herself next week.”
Bondi’s DOJ and FBI memo released last week on the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking investigation declared, “While we have labored to provide the public with maximum information regarding Epstein and ensured examination of any evidence in the government’s possession, it is the determination of the Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation that no further disclosure would be appropriate or warranted.” The memo refutes conspiracy theories that Epstein was murdered in jail to keep him quiet. “Jeffrey Epstein committed suicide in his cell,” the memo insists.
Trump’s MAGA minions heard, “Client list? What client list?” Donald promised them a client list. MAGA’s QAnon contingent knew in their dark hearts that releasing Epstein’s rumored little black book of contacts/clients/blackmail victims would prove the existence of a shadowy, international cabal of Satan-worshipping, blood-drinking, cannibalistic pedophiles made up mostly of Democrats.
Or maybe it was Epstein co-conspirator Maxwell’s book? Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) responded to the DOJ memo with skepticism, citing a 2021 Times of London report on her “97-page book, containing the names and contact details of almost 2,000 people including world leaders, celebrities and businessmen” that jurors had seen in her trial. The prosecution and defense agreed never to make it public.
Whatever. Per The Daily Mail’s anonymous source claims:
Now a source said: ‘Despite the rumors, Ghislaine was never offered any kind of plea deal. She would be more than happy to sit before Congress and tell her story.
‘No-one from the government has ever asked her to share what she knows. She remains the only person to be jailed in connection to Epstein and she would welcome the chance to tell the American public the truth.’
What once was simmering is now at a boil:
The Epstein ‘cover-up’ was also a main topic of conversation among attendees of this weekend’s Student Action Summit in Tampa, Florida, hosted by the conservative group Turning Point USA , an organization many credit with rallying Trump’s young base before last year’s presidential election.
Sharon Allen, an attendee, told NBC News: ‘It’s not even about Pam Bondi to me. It’s like, look, Trump, we elected you because you were supposed to be different. So you have to prove to us you’re different.’
They want their pedophile ring and will damned well have it. Former Trump strategist Steve Bannon told Turning Point that Trump should appoint a special prosecutor to further investigate the Epstein case. He recommends former Florida representative Matt Gaetz who, some may remember, resigned after “a congressional ethics committee report released last year found he regularly paid women for sex; had sex with a 17-year-old; broke Florida’s statutory rape laws; and frequently used illegal drugs.” Yes way.
Naturally, Trump’s weekend rant fuels rumors — denied by MAGA and fanned by Elon Musk — that Trump himself is heavily implicated in the Epstein files as party to Epstein’s sex parties.
Trump pal Roger Stone says bring it on to the Maxwell testimony proposal.
“Personally, I like the news that Epstein’s pimp Maxwell is ready to testify before Congress. Bill and Hillary [the Clintons] are going to be very embarrassed. She has nothing on Trump,” Stone insists.
Bill Kristol on Sunday spoke with reporter Julie K. Brown about her findings in the case. He writes, “She was almost single-handedly responsible for the re-opening of the Jeffrey Epstein sexual abuse case with her 2018 reporting.” She is unconvinced that Epstein committed suicide.
For her part, Maxwell is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to dismiss her conviction on the grounds that she was covered by the same unprecedented non-prosecution deal Epstein won in Florida (ABC News):
Maxwell, 63, had urged the court earlier this year to review her case, arguing that an unusual co-conspirator’s clause in Epstein’s 2007 non-prosecution agreement with federal prosecutors in Florida barred her subsequent prosecution in New York. A district court and a federal appeals court previously rejected that argument, and the DOJ today urged the high court to do the same.
This is so much tabloid titillation, I know. But amidst the gossip and conspiracy talk, what’s important for those worried about our slide toward dictatorship is that Trump’s teflon is well scratched by this controversy. The Epstein controversy has cut him over the eye. And what do we do when our opponent is cut over the eye?
(h/t SB)
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