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Trump suggests he’ll release Jeffrey Epstein ‘client list’ if elected: ‘I’d have no problem with it’

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July 14th already? The DOJ's response to Maxwell's appeal is due today.


The British socialite, and former friend of Prince Andrew, was sentenced to 20 years in jail in June 2022 for her role in Jeffrey Epstein's sex trafficking operation, but has appealed to the Supreme Court.

The Trump administration's response to that case is due July 14 at a particularly pressured time for Bondi, who as attorney general leads the DOJ.

A filing by her team, seen by Newsweek, reads: "Despite the existence of a non-prosecution agreement promising in plain language that the United States would not prosecute any co-conspirator of Jeffrey Epstein, the United States in fact prosecuted Ghislaine Maxwell as a co-conspirator of Jeffrey Epstein.

"Only because the United States did so in the Second Circuit and not elsewhere, her motion to dismiss the indictment was denied, her trial proceeded, and she
is now serving a 20-year sentence.

"In light of the disparity in how the circuit courts interpret the enforceability of a promise made by the 'United States,' Maxwell's motion to dismiss would have been granted if she had been charged in at least four other circuits (plus the Eleventh, where Epstein's agreement was entered into).

"This inconsistency in the law by which the same promise by the United States
means different things in different places should be addressed by this Court."

D. John Sauer, Donald Trump's pick for Solicitor General, has already twice applied to extend the deadline for the administration's response to Maxwell's appeal, leading to the current July 14 deadline.​
 
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"This inconsistency in the law by which the same promise by the United States​
means different things in different places should be addressed by this Court."​
Unfortunately for her defense, SCOTUS has just recently decided that consistency (in the form of nationwide injunctions) is a bad thing.
 
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Unfortunately for her defense, SCOTUS has just recently decided that consistency (in the form of nationwide injunctions) is a bad thing.
When someone other than the administration does it.
 
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July 14th already? The DOJ's response to Maxwell's appeal is due today.


The British socialite, and former friend of Prince Andrew, was sentenced to 20 years in jail in June 2022 for her role in Jeffrey Epstein's sex trafficking operation, but has appealed to the Supreme Court.​
The Trump administration's response to that case is due July 14 at a particularly pressured time for Bondi, who as attorney general leads the DOJ.​
A filing by her team, seen by Newsweek, reads: "Despite the existence of a non-prosecution agreement promising in plain language that the United States would not prosecute any co-conspirator of Jeffrey Epstein, the United States in fact prosecuted Ghislaine Maxwell as a co-conspirator of Jeffrey Epstein.​
"Only because the United States did so in the Second Circuit and not elsewhere, her motion to dismiss the indictment was denied, her trial proceeded, and she​
is now serving a 20-year sentence.​
"In light of the disparity in how the circuit courts interpret the enforceability of a promise made by the 'United States,' Maxwell's motion to dismiss would have been granted if she had been charged in at least four other circuits (plus the Eleventh, where Epstein's agreement was entered into).​
"This inconsistency in the law by which the same promise by the United States​
means different things in different places should be addressed by this Court."​
D. John Sauer, Donald Trump's pick for Solicitor General, has already twice applied to extend the deadline for the administration's response to Maxwell's appeal, leading to the current July 14 deadline.​
Since there is apparently no evidence, this is a great miscarriage of justice and she should be set free and compensated for her time lost to US prisons.
 
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Since there is apparently no evidence, this is a great miscarriage of justice and she should be set free and compensated for her time lost to US prisons.
I wouldn't be too surprised.
 
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Maxwell offers to testify before Congress on Epstein's sex trafficking scheme

"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," the source said. "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."
 
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Johnson says Bondi needs to 'come forward and explain' handling of Epstein files

Republicans on Capitol Hill are calling for Ghislaine Maxwell to testify.

House Speaker Mike Johnson on Tuesday urged Attorney General Pam Bondi to "come forward and explain" the Trump administration's handling of Jeffrey Epstein files.

Johnson also weighed in on growing calls from Republican lawmakers to have Epstein's convicted associate, Ghislaine Maxwell, testify before Congress.

Tennessee Republican Rep. Tim Burchett told ABC News he is "not happy" with how Bondi has handled the Epstein matter. Later in a letter sent Tuesday, Burchett called on House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer to invite Maxwell to testify in a public hearing.

Republican Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri said the Epstein files should be made public and directly called for Maxwell to appear before the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Late Tuesday afternoon, Kentucky GOP Rep. Thomas Massie said he plans to pursue a procedural gambit to trigger a House vote on legislation that would force the release of the "complete" Epstein files.

GOP Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado ... said she would support creating a special counsel to investigate the Epstein matter.

Boebert also had a suggestion for who should lead the probe. "Matt Gaetz as a special counsel? Absolutely," she said.

Well, he certainly has some experience in this area.
 
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Johnson says Bondi needs to 'come forward and explain' handling of Epstein files

Republicans on Capitol Hill are calling for Ghislaine Maxwell to testify.

House Speaker Mike Johnson on Tuesday urged Attorney General Pam Bondi to "come forward and explain" the Trump administration's handling of Jeffrey Epstein files.

Johnson also weighed in on growing calls from Republican lawmakers to have Epstein's convicted associate, Ghislaine Maxwell, testify before Congress.

Tennessee Republican Rep. Tim Burchett told ABC News he is "not happy" with how Bondi has handled the Epstein matter. Later in a letter sent Tuesday, Burchett called on House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer to invite Maxwell to testify in a public hearing.

Republican Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri said the Epstein files should be made public and directly called for Maxwell to appear before the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Late Tuesday afternoon, Kentucky GOP Rep. Thomas Massie said he plans to pursue a procedural gambit to trigger a House vote on legislation that would force the release of the "complete" Epstein files.

GOP Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado ... said she would support creating a special counsel to investigate the Epstein matter.

Boebert also had a suggestion for who should lead the probe. "Matt Gaetz as a special counsel? Absolutely," she said.

Well, he certainly has some experience in this area.
Wow the Epstein fuss among Rs is bigger than I thought it ever was.

I suspect the Q mania had never fully gone away. And now a slightly different variant emerges.
 
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Wow the Epstein fuss among Rs is bigger than I thought it ever was.

I suspect the Q mania had never fully gone away. And now a slightly different variant emerges.
Give it 2 or 3 weeks. The R's will be talking about something else.
 
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Give it 2 or 3 weeks. The R's will be talking about something else.
The latest is that the dems are the real pedophiles for wanting the list released because that somehow means publishing CSAM.
 
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The latest is that the dems are the real pedophiles for wanting the list released because that somehow means publishing CSAM.
House Republicans went from “release the files!” to “protect the ‘philes!”
 
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I'd put about 70% confidence into "yes."
I'm not so sure as many of them have spent years drinking the unmentionable, alphabetic conspiracy Kool-Aid which centered on the elites running a pedophile ring. Trouble is that it was not being run out of a DC pizza parlor, but a millionaire's island. Internet careers were built on this.

It can be a bit disorienting when all the conspiracy theories (weaponizing the FBI, authoritarianism, etc) are being instituted by their heroes.
 
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Give it 2 or 3 weeks. The R's will be talking about something else.
Charlie Kirk said he wasn't going to talk about it anymore, but apparently, he retroactively inserted "for today" and went back to Epstein already. The "pedo-conspiracy" thing runs very deep in big chunks of the MAGA/Trump base. It started with the "pizzagate" conspiracy concocted from the Podesta email dump the Russians which was then built into a "Dem pedo ring" run from the basement of a DC pizzeria with no basement. Then the "Q" conspiracy of conspiracies pulled that into its orbit in 2017 with their belief in a coming period of mass arrests where all the bad dems/pedos/etc. would be rounded up by Trump and the DOJ (which did not happen). When the found out about a real abuse ring centered on Epstein, the portion about sex abuse latched on to him, particularly with the Dem/cultural elites tied to him (Clinton, Dersh, Gates, some public scientists). After "Q" shut down and the focus turned to 2020 election conspiracies and vaccine conspiracies, but Epstein remaned the focus of the "pedo ring" component that had been "pizzagate" before it merged into "Qanon".

So, no, it ain't going away, not even with some limited releases.
 
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