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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSCOTUS denies Ghislaine Maxwell's release
?mcar
(46,353 posts)Jersey Devil
(10,856 posts)as long as she keeps her mouth shut.
moonscape
(5,796 posts)mucholderthandirt
(1,791 posts)Not about any of us, but about Trump and how much better it would be for him if she's gone. If she has any brains, she'd have a failsafe, that would release the files upon her death unless she dies a free woman of old age in her own bed. And heck, even then.
PortTack
(35,824 posts)moonscape
(5,796 posts)Bettie
(19,871 posts)she'll be pardoned, of course, but not right now.
They're afraid that releasing her will turn the spotlight back on the sexual predators in their own ranks.
Bettie
(19,871 posts)that makes sense.
I generally expect them to do whatever that orange thing tells them to.
Raven123
(7,894 posts)Blues Heron
(9,026 posts)RedWhiteBlueIsRacist
(2,240 posts)sop
(19,285 posts)"On the first day of their new term, the justices declined to take up a case that would have drawn renewed attention to the sordid sexual-abuse saga after President Donald Trump's administration sought to tamp down criticism over its refusal to publicly release more investigative files from Epstein's case."
"Maxwell's lawyers contended that a non-prosecution agreement reached in 2007 by federal prosecutors in Miami and Epstein's lawyers also protected his 'potential co-conspirators' from federal charges anywhere in the country."
https://abc7.com/post/supreme-court-rejects-appeal-ghislaine-maxwell-imprisoned-former-girlfriend-jeffrey-epstein/17950093/
This turned out well for Trump. It keeps Maxwell "in prison," still hoping for a pardon. The last thing Trump wanted was Ghislaine free to make statements that would incriminate him.
off-the-clock
(340 posts)PortTack
(35,824 posts)just made up yes more so than now, and bury the files
spanone
(142,052 posts)Tellls America all they should need to know.
onenote
(46,227 posts)Grins
(9,519 posts)surfered
(14,261 posts)BattleRow
(2,711 posts)Clouds Passing
(8,189 posts)ChicagoTeamster
(1,262 posts)But if she does she'll probably wind up getting Epsteined.
Gimpyknee
(1,025 posts)Ms. Toad
(38,817 posts)They declined to even entertain her appeal.
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