Sorry for the edited headline but i wanted to communicate the important bit.

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    First of all, good to know someone’s finally gotten in touch with Chuck Schumer. When you don’t hear from someone of his age for this long, you start to worrry.

    Second of all, what the hell is he talking about? He’s 100% right to call this an, “Epstien Recess,” that’s accurate and good branding, but why would he be pardoning Maxwell? What would the motive be? “She might talk, so I’m going to pardon her as a bribe, even though that would be incredibly suspicious and unpopular with literally everyone. Also, it wouldn’t guarantee she would never talk, and would make it much harder to silence her later.” Doesn’t seem like a great idea, but maybe I’m missing something.

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        Maybe? Seems like it would be easier to do it when she’s locked up in a a place full of criminals and murders. Plus, they got Epstien in prison, right? …haha, just kidding, it was a suicide…maybe.

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      Trump doesn’t care if it’s unpopular, he doesn’t need anything from anyone. Everything he does for the remainder of his term will be covered by immunity. He’ll just spend it doing pump and dump schemes, buttoning up the police state for the oligarchs, and hopefully kick the bucket. Gislaine will go into hiding or get merked not long after her release. Clearly there will be no consequences for that either.

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        It’s much easier to defenestrate her after she’s free and abroad. Can’t have two of them hung in prison.