Ask any MAGA and they will tell you that Trump ended his friendship with Jeffery Epstein the moment he found out about the rumors/facts about Epstein’s interest in underage girls. No, hardly. Trump’s “friendship” (partnership) ended due to the way all things end with Trump, it ended over money. Epstein slipped in and bought a piece of property that Trump had talked about. At that point, Trump terminated all contact. Up to that point, they were very close friends and anyone that spent any time around Jeff knew his proclivities and was likely involved to some degree.

Everyone knows the Trump quote, “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.”

We report news and wrote op-ed columns that analyze that news. We are not a court of law. We don’t have to prove things beyond a reasonable doubt. We can read the quote and conclude to our own degree of certainty that Trump knew everything about Epstein, considered Epstein a great guy, they had the same interests in “women,” and both Epstein and Trump loved their self-indulgent social life.

So again, we’re not a court of law, we get to report and analyze, why would Trump consider pardoning Ghislaine Maxwell?  Because he did. What would Occam have to say is the most logical explanation for this?

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 tr*fficking charges, to which she has pleaded not guilty. Epstein died in jail last year while he was awaiting trial on tr*fficking 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.

Trump took a 'sudden interest' in Ghislaine Maxwell when discussing who to pardon, according to a new book https://t.co/XBOrLvLxXs

— Jon Cooper 🇺🇸 (@joncoopertweets) July 5, 2021

The Right loves to talk about Epstein because they are certain there is proof that Bill was involved in the entire enterprise, underage girls, all that. We are not sure how that’s “owning the libs.” IF Bill Clinton was involved in it, we hope that he spends his remaining years in prison. This is an equal opportunity issue, we truly couldn’t care less which politicians were involved. We support putting any of them in prison. We protect teen girls from powerful men of any stripe, some of us dads get near-violent at the thought.

But we suspect nothing substantial will ever be released, not during this generation. Ultimately, Jeffery Epstein was too valuable to the U.S. Intelligence agencies to ever really expose the entirety of the operation. (In our opinion). Epstein didn’t just set up American politicians.

But back to Trump. Maxwell is not some sympathetic figure caught up in something unfair. All we know is that Trump loved to pardon people who did him favors, kept him out of trouble, people that could do something for him, or people who posed a threat (Roger Stone). It looked to us like every pardon Trump ever granted was done so because it benefitted Trump. So why would Trump even weigh whether pardoning Maxwell would help him?

What do you think, Mr. Occam?

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