Influential MAGA voices are suddenly trying to cast Jeffrey Epstein’s sex-trafficking accomplice in a more favorable light.
The Justice Department is reportedly meeting with Maxwell on Thursday and Friday, ahead of her scheduled deposition with the House Oversight Committee on August 11. The interviews follow weeks of mounting pressure on Trump from his base, who have clamored for more transparency regarding the Epstein files after the Justice Department contradicted prior statements from Attorney General Pam Bondi on the existence of Jeffrey Epstein’s supposed client list.
Offering Maxwell as fodder to Trump’s hungry followers is a fascinating carrot-and-stick option to alleviate some of that tension, but convincing her to talk would almost certainly require some kind of deal—an option that pro-Trump conservative media networks started to imagine this week.
On Monday, Newsmax host Greg Kelly had already started to dabble in the new media line, suggesting on air that Maxwell didn’t deserve her 20-year prison sentence and openly embracing the idea that the Epstein associate could be wrongly convicted.
"And maybe she deserves it. Maybe she doesn’t. Again, not a very popular thing, but we’ll take a look,” Kelly told his viewers, even questioning if the child sex abuser had been legally tried in court. (She was.)
"She just might be a victim. She just might be,” Kelly said.
Maxwell was sentenced in 2022 for playing an active role in Epstein’s crimes, identifying and grooming vulnerable young women while normalizing their abuse as Epstein’s longtime girlfriend and associate.
"Maybe she wants immunity, maybe she wants some sort of protection, I don’t know,” Charlie Kirk said on his show Tuesday. “We just want the truth.… Some people say, ‘Can we trust Ghislaine Maxwell?’ Probably, but also probably not.”
The Epstein-Trump controversy was always a distraction that would never lead anywhere. The misogynists of MAGA who groom young people into their fascist cult and pass child marriage laws would never seriously turn against Trump for this. They’re too satiated by him finally delivering actual purges of undesirable to be disappointed in him.
I’m annoyed that people kept making such a big deal out of a controlled controversy with no teeth. My guess is that worrying about deathcamps for minorities and the poor is too painful. I get it; it’s not fun to think about how awful and hopeless things seem. That doesn’t mean burying your head in a dead end controversy is the answer.
Edit: spelling
And meanwhile, the orange chickenshit issues an executive order demanding that the homeless and those struggling with addiction or any other mental health issues be involuntary committed to an institution. Meaning he’s already moving on to the next group of “undesirables”. But everywhere people insist you must focus only on Epstein!
Frankly, the whole pile of bullshit smells like a Russian psyop. First, just how many times have we seen this nonsense about “MAGA is starting to crack!”?? First, it’s fascism, which is not, in any way, founded on logic or reason. Second, am I really supposed to believe that molesting kids is what’s gonna make a god-forsaken Nazi blush?! I don’t think so.
Last but not least, GOP standing orders for the DOJ are to not prosecute the executive branch. Period. So what the heck do people think is gonna happen? The ambulatory pile of shit face any consequence?? Yeah right…
(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻
People are just hoping something good will happen without us doing it. Every bit of good that’ll come into this world rn will have to come from our own blood, sweat, and tears. Nobody will save us; that’s our job.