President Donald Trump on Monday reiterated that he is “allowed” to pardon Jeffrey Epstein’s co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell but told reporters that no one has asked him to issue one to her.

When asked on Monday if he would ever consider a pardon for Maxwell, who is currently serving a 20-year federal prison sentence for child sex trafficking and other crimes, Trump told reporters: “Well, I’m allowed to give her a pardon, but I — nobody’s approached me with it. Nobody’s asked me about it. It’s in the news about that, that aspect of it, but right now, it would be inappropriate to talk about it.”

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    16 hours ago

    This can go four ways:

    • she remains jailed;
    • she goes free and nothing happens;
    • used to bring down some democrats like the male Clinton, but not Obama;
    • or somebody is made to lie about Obama and he arrests that ex president.
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      14 hours ago

      nothing happens should be appended to all of these outcomes.

      the rich and powerful created this system to protect them and people are expecting/hoping that the system will punsih the rich and powerful for being on the list; this inherent contradiction is a clear indicator of how little people are paying attention.