Alan Dershowitz asked Donald Trump to grant Ghislaine Maxwell a pre-emptive pardon

[douglas9]

Jeffrey Epstein’s former lawyer lobbied Donald Trump to pre-emptively pardon Ghislaine Maxwell during the final days of his presidency after talks with her family.

Alan Dershowitz, 83, a former Harvard Law School professor, represented Epstein during the noughties and Trump during his first impeachment trial. He has since been accused of abuse by one of Epstein’s under-age victims, which he denies.

Towards the end of Trump’s time in office the lawyer used his close ties to the president to secure pardons for paying clients.

Trump, 75, used his executive powers to pardon or commute the sentences of various convicts, some of them political allies, and even considered pardoning himself for unspecified crimes. He was also reported to have taken a sudden interest in Maxwell’s fate. According to Landslide, by the American journalist Michael Wolff, he asked aides: “Has she said anything about me? . . . Is she going to talk? Will she roll on anybody?”

Trump’s interest in Maxwell, 60, came after Dershowitz spoke to him about her case when she was in prison awaiting trial for sex trafficking of under-age girls.


https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/8b6cdeb4-70ca-11ec-9b00-681c4404af37?shareToken=d1e9b9040c71e830efb9551b7c02248b

[JohnSJ]

1. Dershowitz most like concerned what information will come out about him from her

[Me.]

2. And What Does THat Tell You?

[Quakerfriend]

3. Surprise, surprise

[comradebillyboy]

4. "Trump's interest in Maxwell, 60, came after Dershowitz

Dershowitz spoke to him about her case"

No, Trump and Maxwell were long time friends. Trump had been partying with Epstein and Maxwell since the 90s, if not longer. She just didn't have enough money to buy a pardon.

[flying_wahini]

5. I would just bet there were several men that brought it up.

I hope she is talking a LOT.

[smirkymonkey]

6. He's so repulsive.

The whole lot of them are. I would love to see them all rot in prison, but I know it won't happen. The best we can hope for is to see them sweat.

[Kid Berwyn]

7. Either that or she gets to room with a psycho bodybuilder.

Like former police officer Nicholas Taglione, who shared a cell with Jeffrey Epstein and stood accused of a quadruple homicide…



Nicholas Tartaglione denied making the marks on Epstein’s neck when that friend of princes and presidents was found unresponsive in his cell the first time.

https://yonkerstimes.com/dirty-westchester-ex-cop-is-epsteins-cell-mate/

Like AG Bill Barr said after Epstein’s death, I was appalled.

But not as appalled as when I heard Bill Barr’s ex-OSS father, Kenneth, had HIRED the UNQUALIFIED EPSTEIN to teach at an exclusive NYC prep school...

https://heavy.com/news/2019/08/donald-barr/

[MissMillie]

8. I thought I read that accepting a pardon is an admission of guilt

some sort of judicial ruling as such, anyway.

[mnmoderatedem]

9. and why, pray tell, would he bother to do such a thing?

I can't possibly imagine....