When will Ghislaine Maxwell be coming home to Florida? Curious minds want to know
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In the wake of the Epstein Files vote in Congress, Floridians have a question that demands an answer:
When will Ghislaine Maxwell be coming home?
Home, meaning the federal women’s prison in Tallahassee, where she used to be incarcerated before President Donald Trump and his minions in the Justice Department whisked her away to that Club Fed in Texas.
You know, the minimum security resort where guests enjoy puppy therapy and yoga classes, and, in Maxwell’s case, where a smiling warden is helping her with her efforts to commute her 20-year prison sentence.
This question arises because with the pending release of all the files related to Maxwell’s former boyfriend and sexual predator, Jeffrey Epstein, what leverage does she still enjoy that gets her guest accommodations somewhere other than a prison cell?
Maxwell, you’ll recall, was convicted of luring young girls to Epstein’s Palm Beach manse to be molested by him and his pals. The identities of those friends who shared in that pederasty may soon surface once the Justice Department records are released.
Maybe.
There are still doubts in some people’s minds (like mine) about how much scrubbing of those records might have taken place in the past several months since former Florida attorney general—and now U.S. Attorney General—Pam Bondi said she had them on her desk.
Maxwell’s transfer from the Tallahassee slammer to Texas occurred suddenly after she was interviewed by one of Trump’s henchmen, Todd Blanche, currently at the DOJ. It was almost as if they couldn’t get her out of Florida fast enough.
This is not normal.
Naturally, it raises suspicions about what kind of deal she might have reached with Blanche, or what she might be threatening Trump with, to get this special treatment.
And, for the sake of argument, if whatever it is she knows is also in the Epstein Files, it would seem she would lose any leverage she has over the president with their release.
We don’t know that for sure, of course, because we’ve yet to see the content of those files.
On the other hand, it wouldn’t be unreasonable to suppose that Maxwell is clever enough to have held back evidence, or testimony, that otherwise could be damaging, and, thus, she still holds a hammer over Trump’s spray-tanned head.
So, maybe, instead of asking when she’s coming home to Florida, we might also consider the possibility that the answer is:
Never.
And that a better question might be:
How long will it be before Trump either commutes her sentence or pardons her altogether?
Curious minds want to know.
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