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BumRushDaShow

(167,317 posts)
Mon Feb 9, 2026, 06:11 PM Monday

Khanna says Maxwell should be sent back to maximum security prison

Source: The Hill

02/09/26 3:13 PM ET


After Ghislaine Maxwell’s closed-door deposition before the House Oversight Committee on Monday, Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) said she should be transferred back to the maximum security prison in Florida she was moved out of last summer.

Khanna, a member of the committee, wrote on social platform X that Maxwell refused “to answer a single question about the men who raped underage girls, saying she would only do so” if she received clemency from President Trump. “She must immediately be sent back to the maximum security prison where she belongs,” the California Democrat added.

During her testimony on the committee’s probe into the Jeffrey Epstein case, Maxwell invoked her Fifth Amendment right to avoid self-incrimination. Her attorney, David Oscar Markus, fired back at Khanna, writing on X that he “wants to punish someone for invoking a constitutional right.”

“Sending someone to harsher confinement because they invoke a constitutional right is something we associate with authoritarian regimes, not the United States Congress. Sad,” Markus added.

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5729972-khanna-maxwell-deposition-fifth-prison/



The irony and hypocrisy is breathtaking.
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EarlG

(23,513 posts)
2. "Sending someone to harsher confinement because they invoke a constitutional right...
Mon Feb 9, 2026, 06:25 PM
Monday

... is something we associate with authoritarian regimes."

Uh... it was the authoritarian regime that let this convicted child sex trafficker out of maximum security prison in the first place.

fujiyamasan

(1,446 posts)
7. This is what congressional democrats should be running against at this point
Tue Feb 10, 2026, 01:36 AM
Yesterday

God knows if the shoe was on the other foot…

MW67

(111 posts)
8. They should also remind everyone , what exactly is the character of a man who insinuates
Tue Feb 10, 2026, 12:21 PM
19 hrs ago

That his political rivals are in the files during the campaign, then denies that the files exist, while all along knowing he is in them. They could use Kid Rock " Johnny Cool" for their theme song

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