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Donald Trump took a "sudden interest" in Ghislaine Maxwell's case as he was considering who to pardon in the final week of his presidency, journalist Michael Wolff alleges in a new book.

Maxwell, a close associate of Jeffrey Epstein, is awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges, to which she has pleaded not guilty. Epstein died in jail last year while he was awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges.

According to Wolff's new book "Landslide"— his second detailing the Trump presidency — the former president's attention turned to Maxwell and her case as he looked for potential candidates for a presidential pardon, according to an extract published by the Times of London.

According to Wolff, Trump was "bored" by the "process and details" of pardoning individuals but was determined to use the executive power granted to presidents before he departed the White House.

Wolff said he would frequently interrupt conversations to ask: "Why do you think should be pardoned? Give me one person — who's your top pick?" 

Of Maxwell, he asked "Has she said anything about me?" according to the book. Wolff reports that he added: "Is she going to talk? Will she roll on anybody?"

The former president also considered giving himself a federal pardon, telling aides that "they say I can. Unlimited pardon power," but was dissuaded from doing so due to the risk of triggering individual states to pursue prosecutions, Wolff alleges.

Trump socialized with Maxwell on at least one occasion in 2000, when he was photographed with his wife Melania as well as Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein. He sent her well-wishes in July last year after she was arrested and did so again the following month.  When asked "why you would wish such a person well" by Axios reporter Jonathan Swan, Trump replied: "She's now in jail, so yeah, I wish her well. I would wish you well. I would wish a lot of people well. Good luck. Let them prove somebody was guilty."

Trump ultimately did not pardon Maxwell. His former chief strategist Steve Bannon and the rapper Lil Wayne were among those he did pardon.

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I think David icke had a reliable witness relay to him, The dick Cheney thing.  

Why do you think every other day there is a new Hollywood or political person raping people like Bill Cosby? 

I’m wondering why Oro would claim so early.

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You think that's funny, do you?  Accusing people of child rape without a shred of evidence?

The elites really rape people.

Look at anyone who has ever been to pedophile Island with Epstein.

• A federal lawsuit filed in California in April 2016, against Epstein and Donald Trump by a California woman alleged that the two men sexually assaulted her at a series of parties at Epstein's Manhattan residence in 1994, when she was 13 years old.
  
• In  a 2002 interview, Trump said "I've known Jeff for fifteen years. Terrific guy. He's a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side. No doubt about it – Jeffrey enjoys his social life."
  
• From the 1990s to mid-2000s, Epstein often socialized with the future President Donald Trump.  Author Michael Wolff wrote that Trump, Epstein, and Tom Barrack were at the time like a "set of nightlife musketeers" on the social scene.  Epstein and Trump socialized both in New York City and Palm Beach, where they both had houses.   In April 2003, New York magazine reported Epstein hosted a dinner party in his Manhattan residence to honor Bill Clinton, who did not attend, although Trump did attend.  According to The Washington Post, one person who knew Epstein and Trump during this time noted that "they were tight" and "they were each other's wingmen".   In November 2004, Epstein and Trump's friendship ran into trouble when they became embroiled in a bidding war for a $40 million mansion, Maison de L'Amitie, which was being auctioned in Palm Beach. Trump won the auction for $41 million, and successfully sold the property four years later for $95 million to the Russian billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev. That month was the last time Epstein and Trump were recorded to have interacted.
  
• In July 2006, the FBI began its own investigation of Epstein, nicknamed "Operation Leap Year".  It resulted in a 53-page indictment in June 2007.  Alexander Acosta, then the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, agreed to a plea deal, which Alan Dershowitz helped to negotiate, to grant immunity from all federal criminal charges to Epstein, along with four named co-conspirators and any unnamed "potential co-conspirators". According to the Miami Herald, the non-prosecution agreement "essentially shut down an ongoing FBI probe into whether there were more victims and other powerful people who took part in Epstein's sex crimes". At the time, this halted the investigation and sealed the indictment. The Miami Herald said: "Acosta agreed, despite a federal law to the contrary, that the deal would be kept from the victims."
  
• Trump subsequently named Acosta Secretary f Labor in 2017, which  posting Acosta resigned from in 2019 after Epstein's arrest brought Acosta's secret arrangements to light.

Biden has a credible rape accusation..... the woman who called into the Larry King show and worked with him. 

I heard stories of dick Cheney keeping child see slaves. There was is "the finders" cult which has been verified to exist. 

During a custody battle, a British politician was proved to have had a satanic set cult when his kids felt safe enough to report him to authorities. One where his kids were pi.ped to other politicians.

These are evil people in positions of power. Just think of the type of person who is even attracted to power to start with, and add to it that they feel invincible when they have it. 

The metoo movement, really did expose how prevalent rape and. Olestatio. Is among the rich and powerful 

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But as we've established many times now, you hate America.  You hate democracy.  You think that America should be subjected to the rule of a dictator, demonstrating that you don't even understand what created or defines the United States of America.

Oro, I don't like dictatorship.

the american government has done lots of bad things, it just makes no sense why somebody would think america is deserving of loyalty.

Putin seems very nice in interviews. It doesn't seem like ethnic cleansing would benefit him. Have you read the Oliver stone interview?

He is just somebody who is looking to allie with America for mutual benefit. He has really brought his country from 3rd world shithole to someplace tolerable to live and helped millions.

American troops are traitors to the republic

What is wrong with russia owning the Ukraine?

people are easy to propagandize and are generally stupid, why do you think that randos should be in charge of policy?   Don't democracies just have citizens always voting on getting free shit until the country implodes?   democracy seems a shitty way to maintain freedom.

I'd remove all foreign troops from overseas in every area, but keep my fingers on the button, just waiting for some idiot to mistake me for a weak leader due to disinterest in policing the world.  That is how you do war. Not through proxy battles or drawn out affairs, but obliterate your opponent quickly

According to sidney  Powell, once the election audit proves Trump was defrauded out of the presidency, he will be reinstated as president

I want to see the corrupt fall....I don't like  corrupt politicians.....My ideology is that I am opposed to injustice. 

We have a moral obligatin to murder politicians

The aren't human they are politicians

I like Ted Kaczynski. He seemed to also be justified in his actions. It is atleast hard for me to argue against his logic

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i did not in fact do that

David Duke isn't even racist, he is just called racist so the media in his appearences can avoid debating the issues he raises, which he'll crush them on. The argument he is rasicst rests on a single newspaper article in which he immediately claims after it was released he was misquoted. He also was a former leader in a group who called themselves, but that isn't neccesarily a racist organization either (depending on which group is using the term as their name), and he is often introduced in interviews saying he was a member of the KKK. It has nothing to do with the points he raises. Nobody can debate that guy and win, so they poison the tree.

David Duke is not racist, has never provably said anything racist. Nor is white nationalism racist,

Obviously I have STDs. I fuck black chicks

It's honestly not even a challenge to debate blacks and if you are black do not accept a debate with me, because I don't feel like wasting my time debating somebody with an IQ of 85, just to get to the foregone conclusion

 One may well ask: "How can you advocate breaking some laws and obeying others?" The answer lies in the fact that there are two types of laws: just and unjust. I would be the first to advocate obeying just laws. One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws. I would agree with St. Augustine that "an unjust law is no law at all."

Now, what is the difference between the two? How does one determine whether a law is just or unjust? A just law is a man made code that squares with the moral law or the law of God. An unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law. To put it in the terms of St. Thomas Aquinas: An unjust law is a human law that is not rooted in eternal law and natural law. Any law that uplifts human personality is just. Any law that degrades human personality is unjust. All segregation statutes are unjust because segregation distorts the soul and damages the personality. It gives the segregator a false sense of superiority and the segregated a false sense of inferiority. Segregation, to use the terminology of the Jewish philosopher Martin Buber, substitutes an "I it" relationship for an "I thou" relationship and ends up relegating persons to the status of things. Hence segregation is not only politically, economically and sociologically unsound, it is morally wrong and sinful. Paul Tillich has said that sin is separation. Is not segregation an existential expression of man's tragic separation, his awful estrangement, his terrible sinfulness? Thus it is that I can urge men to obey the 1954 decision of the Supreme Court, for it is morally right; and I can urge them to disobey segregation ordinances, for they are morally wrong.

Let us consider a more concrete example of just and unjust laws. An unjust law is a code that a numerical or power majority group compels a minority group to obey but does not make binding on itself. This is difference made legal. By the same token, a just law is a code that a majority compels a minority to follow and that it is willing to follow itself. This is sameness made legal. Let me give another explanation. A law is unjust if it is inflicted on a minority that, as a result of being denied the right to vote, had no part in enacting or devising the law. Who can say that the legislature of Alabama which set up that state's segregation laws was democratically elected? Throughout Alabama all sorts of devious methods are used to prevent Negroes from becoming registered voters, and there are some counties in which, even though Negroes constitute a majority of the population, not a single Negro is registered. Can any law enacted under such circumstances be considered democratically structured?

Sometimes a law is just on its face and unjust in its application. For instance, I have been arrested on a charge of parading without a permit. Now, there is nothing wrong in having an ordinance which requires a permit for a parade. But such an ordinance becomes unjust when it is used to maintain segregation and to deny citizens the First-Amendment privilege of peaceful assembly and protest.

I hope you are able to see the distinction I am trying to point out. In no sense do I advocate evading or defying the law, as would the rabid segregationist. That would lead to anarchy. One who breaks an unjust law must do so openly, lovingly, and with a willingness to accept the penalty. I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.

lets note that the post above me is spreading false info

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Here is a good example of failure in coherence.  Bush 41 was mostly just an extension of Reagan policies.  Trump requires the modern Republican party to think of Bush 41 & 43 as RINO's because they opposed his candidacy but to say Bush 41 was no Republican is to say the same about Reagan (policy-wise, not personality-wise), but I doubt you are ready to call Reagan a RINO as well.   But if Reagan were alive in 2020, does anybody really doubt he would have supported Biden before Trump?

Everyone hates moderates like the bush family. Their time is past. It will now be a real fight between left and right . Left will probably win. 

Trump is a weird centrist that likes right wing rhetoric.

True Republicans are like Ron paul

biden is a pedophile

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Can-do?

Nope. What I'm saying is a definitive, not a maybe: SloJo is a Cannot, absolutely. No questins about it, at all, and you you didn't hate Trump so much, you's realize that that is what Joe Biden is, even to Democrats who appraise him seriously: He is a not-Trump, not a positive Joe Biden.

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/may/26/blog-posting/biden-beating-biden-social-media-users-misquote-bi/

Y0es, I've seen this apology from Politifact and CNBC. They are wrong. I have a professional sound studio, and I have run the sound of Biden's statement. He did not merely say, "I will be Joe Biden."  there is a definitive, plosive "t" at the end of "be," before the "Joe," and all the apologies in the world from all the fawning media saying otherwise cannot erase what was actually said: A "t."  I've said this, before, so blow your apologies. Did you miss it?  That's on you. Joe Biden  does not know who Joe Biden is, and my professional sound analysis, letter by letter, is all the evidence I need. Period.

"I’m prepared to say that I have a record of over 40 years and that I’m going to be Joe Biden. Look at my record. The fact is that some areas that I think, for example, I think health care is a right, not a privilege. I do not support Medicare for All. I will not support Medicare for All. But I do support making sure that Obamacare is around with a public option for those who can’t afford. Those who qualify for Medicaid and they don’t get it in their state, they would be able to buy, they would be able to be automatically enrolled in the public option of Medicare. "

Doctors say you should still get vaccinated even if you've already had COVID-19.

https://www.healthline.com/health-news/new-study-determines-people-whove-had-covid-19-dont-need-to-get-vaccinated

Appears the jury is still out on that claim.

WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Joe Biden said Wednesday that while he trusts what scientists say about a potential coronavirus vaccine, he doesn’t trust President Donald Trump.

His comments come as the debate over a vaccine — how it will be evaluated and distributed when it’s ready — has taken center stage in the presidential race with seven weeks to go until the November election.

Trump and Biden have been trading accusations that the other is undermining public trust in a potential coronavirus vaccine. Biden has expressed concerns that the vaccine approval process could be politicized, while Trump and his allies counter that such comments from Biden and other Democrats are turning off the public to a potentially lifesaving vaccine when it’s released.

Biden, speaking in Wilmington, Delaware, after being briefed by public health experts about a potential vaccine, cited Trump’s “incompetence and dishonesty” surrounding the distribution of personal protective equipment and coronavirus testing. The U.S. “can’t afford to repeat those fiascos when it comes to a vaccine,” he said.

“I trust vaccines, I trust scientists, but I don’t trust Donald Trump,” Biden said, “and at this moment, the American people can’t, either.”

"I will say that I would not trust Donald Trump and it would have to be a credible source of information that talks about the efficacy and the reliability of whatever he's talking about," she continued in the clip from an exclusive interview airing Sunday on CNN's "State of the Union" at 9 a.m. ET. "I will not take his word for it."

Please show evidence Biden says that vaccine should be mandatory.

"'A tough call’: Biden considering mandatory Covid vaccines for U.S. troops". https://www.politico.com/news/2021/04/30/biden-covid-vaccines-troops-485099

fauxlaw concedes his prior inaccuracy when evaluating Biden's mental capacity.  

Nope. fauxlaw has not conceded evaluation of Biden's mental capacity. fauxlaw has conceded that Biden's departure within six months was inaccurate. Let's read what I said, not what you think I said. That's half the problem I encounter. people misread what I say. Words mean things and I typically choose them carefully.

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Nope. I don't dream. I know exactly what media is, and is not. As the only private industry mentioned constitutionally, it has the role of balance, not of opinion. The latter is all CNN is.

Nope. The only nation-level activity in the Presidential election, constitutionally, is when the Senators [House is also there, but plays no role unless the proceedings fail to confirm the election by the E.C.] meet, under the direction of the President of the Senate to confirm the E.C. State votes, by physical count. Article II, sec. 1, clause 3.

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• Biden is the most Republican president since George H. W. Bush
  

• Bush 41 was hardly a Republican. He was progressive in virtually every way. Biden? A Republican? That's an insult. Biden has no clue what he is.
  

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 You don't seem to have any problem with his positions or plans.

Previous posts certainly cover that. Must I be so repetitive? Who is have coherency, let alone memory issues, now?

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Biden stumbles and flubs in extemporaneous speech  a lot but I never have a problem with coherency.

stumbling and flubs are indicative of coherency? Just how low is your bar of coherence?

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6 months ago, fauxlaw was taking bets that Biden would resign due to senility and Kamala Harris take over by April 30

Am I not allowed to be wrong?

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5 months ago, fauxlaw claimed that because Biden said he couldn't solve the pandemic for America, he must not be a can-do president.  Now the pandemic is  almost exclusively killing people who did not get vaccinated.

No, I did not make a question of whether or not SloJo is a can-do.  

There is no question; SloJo still said he will beat Joe Biden.

Doesn't know who he is; how can he possibly be competent?

And as for killing people, there are plenty who have had the virus, and survived with antibodies that science says is as good, if not better than being vaccinated,

but those who used to complain [including SloJo, and Kammie] that the vaccine would not be effective,

are now saying it must be mandated.

What changed, other than their ill-informed opinions?

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4 months ago fauxlaw was complaining that Biden was avoiding the media.

He still is. Don Lemon and CNN have yet to prove they deserve the to be journalists.

Yes, but as I pointed out, the city of Cincy went for Biden. Presidential elections are not national votes, and, in the case of specific local visits by Presidents, not even statewide votes.

Considering who's asking softball questions, and who doesn't even know who he is, no, he did not do well. The broadcast [on video, so you're welcome to review it] speaks for itself. Why should I add to it?

 I expect that an elected President be coherent.

• Scientists expect COVID-19 vaccine for under 12's soon.  
  
• Biden expects schools will require masks for all under 12 and unvaccinated over 12s
  
• Biden re-iterates that nobody can get away with saying nothing happened on Jan 6th.
  
• Still hopes Republican will join in investigation of attack on Republican's own interests.
  
• Biden agrees that filibuster is holding up voting rights and a relic of Jim Crow but worries that changing filibuster will end any hope of GOP cooperation
  
• Biden expects improved economic growth will overtake inflation in the short (a big promise that he needs to be able to demonstrate before mid-terms)
  
• Re-iterated that Central American immigrants should not come to US and said working hard to re-establish a process for legal migration broken by Trump.
  
• Promised to fight to keep DACA in US.