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Ghislaine Maxwell... I'm surprised she's still alive. She knows a lot of folks. (Original Post) Norrrm Tuesday OP
Do you think she will ever reveal or will that incriminate her? Deuxcents Tuesday #1
Fact she's still alive is why I believe Epstein offed himself, perhaps with some guards paid inattention. Silent Type Tuesday #2
he had the evidence. mopinko Tuesday #8
Is one of them in the White House? BOSSHOG Tuesday #3
Probably writing a book. Sneederbunk Tuesday #4
With TAPPER... UTUSN Tuesday #14
Yep. Or has plenty of time to read or enjoy artwork. She's in an air conditioned, low allegorical oracle Wednesday #23
They're in the protected class. The law does not Gaugamela Tuesday #5
She must not have the "good stuff" usonian Tuesday #6
Forgiveness requires repentance soldierant Tuesday #11
In their world, there's only money. usonian Tuesday #12
she might have a dead man switch pimpbot Tuesday #7
100% or she would be "gone" Nigrum Cattus Tuesday #9
I am betting you are right DENVERPOPS Tuesday #10
But wouldn't she have more leverage than merely staying alive? usonian Tuesday #13
Why hasn't Trump pardoned her? Bev54 Tuesday #15
Mexican standoff harumph Wednesday #16
I think he will at some point Buckeyeblue Wednesday #20
Suspect he will if she can come up with the money. nt allegorical oracle Wednesday #22
Lex Wexner, Epstein's BFF must be paying off a lot of people NEOBuckeye Wednesday #17
Release the list of names! Melon Wednesday #18
Seems to me that "people think" there's a lot more evidence of this "giant, secret rich dude pedophile cabal" AZJonnie Wednesday #19
She's alive and well in one of Florida's finest low-security federal prisons. allegorical oracle Wednesday #21

Silent Type

(9,625 posts)
2. Fact she's still alive is why I believe Epstein offed himself, perhaps with some guards paid inattention.
Tue May 27, 2025, 10:27 PM
Tuesday

Killers trying to hide things would have most likely taken her out too. But we’ll never really know.

In meantime, trafficking goes on way too often.

mopinko

(72,588 posts)
8. he had the evidence.
Tue May 27, 2025, 11:10 PM
Tuesday

she might have some, but he was the 1 w a safe full of pics and vids.

allegorical oracle

(5,002 posts)
23. Yep. Or has plenty of time to read or enjoy artwork. She's in an air conditioned, low
Wed May 28, 2025, 08:24 AM
Wednesday

security prison dormitory that she may share with one roommate. Probably has a few assigned chores, but gets fed and clothed and her dorm is probably nicer than federal housing, many college dorms, or seniors' apartments. Last I read, she's appealed to the SCOTUS.

Gaugamela

(2,820 posts)
5. They're in the protected class. The law does not
Tue May 27, 2025, 10:30 PM
Tuesday

bind them. Ghislaine should have been protected, but a sacrifice was regrettably necessary. The protected class owes her an immense debt. (Deep collective sigh.)

soldierant

(8,565 posts)
11. Forgiveness requires repentance
Tue May 27, 2025, 11:35 PM
Tuesday

and I'll never believe the Mango Monster is capable of repentance.

usonian

(17,911 posts)
12. In their world, there's only money.
Tue May 27, 2025, 11:43 PM
Tuesday

Nothing else has value or even meaning.



Capitalism is religion.
Money is God.

pimpbot

(1,086 posts)
7. she might have a dead man switch
Tue May 27, 2025, 11:03 PM
Tuesday

Someone she trusts or some place that she stored all the pictures and video. If she disappears, the files get released. TPTB would need to make sure all the copies are gone first.

DENVERPOPS

(12,341 posts)
10. I am betting you are right
Tue May 27, 2025, 11:33 PM
Tuesday

It is her insurance policy against harm....Much the same as Heidi Fleis (sp?).......Heidi probably gave copies of her black book to several others with instructions that if she met an un-timely death, reveal the black book to several different trusted sources for release.....

You can bet that if either or both were ever released, it would bring down countless top men's reputations, and possibly legal charges.
I would think that we already know some of them.............And Putin probably has some of them for blackmail purposes.....

usonian

(17,911 posts)
13. But wouldn't she have more leverage than merely staying alive?
Tue May 27, 2025, 11:46 PM
Tuesday

Not to knock staying alive!!

But that kerping that cache out of circulation could buy her more, no?

Just a thought.

AZJonnie

(829 posts)
19. Seems to me that "people think" there's a lot more evidence of this "giant, secret rich dude pedophile cabal"
Wed May 28, 2025, 03:29 AM
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than there actually is, and reflexively discount the possibility it was actually just those two perverts abusing girls and young women. This simultaneously and neatly explains both why she's the one in jail for it, and also why she's not been 'offed' by this oft-posited powerful perverts cabal.

This is an Occam's Razor type of explanation that's worth considering at least, IMHO. And it's one that does not require believing that Biden's DoJ and the SDNY simply refused to go after all these powerful men because they were too cowed and/or corrupt to properly pursue justice in the huge criminal suit they brought against Maxwell.

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