Epstein Files: In 2025, Donald Trump is doing more than sending best wishes to "most notorious child predator" Ghislaine Maxwell

 

Top headline:  New York Times

Bottom headline:  National Memo

Joe Conason reports for National Memo reports on stuff people do for their closest friends:

When Donald Trump pardoned the January 6 gangsters upon returning to the White House, he proved that he is capable of any depraved act to protect himself. So while everybody should be disgusted by the prospect of a presidential pardon for Ghislaine Maxwell, nobody should be surprised. There is no dishonor too low for this president. 

The 63-year-old Maxwell is probably the most notorious child predator in the U.S. federal prison system, globally reviled for enabling the sexual abuse of hundreds of young girls by the late Jeffrey Epstein. Sentenced to 20 years in prison for those crimes, she has until very recently languished in a Florida maximum-security prison, as required by federal law for felons like her. [emphasis added]

Suddenly and mysteriously, however, the Bureau of Prisons moved Maxwell to a shiny new facility in Texas last week, with far less stringent security and far more comfortable quarters. It is the luxury version of detention coveted by all the incarcerated guests of the federal system.

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