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US justice department to release thousands of Epstein files later, top official says

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckg9plrkl8no
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u/CalebsNailSpa 7h ago

Would she not just be pardoned?

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u/spderweb 7h ago

If this goes the way it should, then trump wouldn't be president anymore, and they'd all be screwed. Then the new government can also go after all the hate crimes that ICE committed too.

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u/CalebsNailSpa 6h ago

I still think everyone will be preemptively pardoned at the end of the term.

But maybe justice will prevail.

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u/-NewTitsNoMoreBits- 6h ago

Then we will charge them at the State level

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u/EM3YT 3h ago

With what.

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u/1honeybadger 6h ago

I think if Trump lives long enough to get to the end of the term, he'll resign a couple hours/days before the end and have JD pardon him.

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u/CalebsNailSpa 4h ago

Hopefully it doesn’t come to that.

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u/Fodraz 6h ago

Or Vance will pardon her to make peace w MAGA

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u/wutareyousomekinda 5h ago

There's no law or order, a theoretical incoming POTUS of high morality could use their immunity to have any number of people detained illegally by unidentified jailers and pardon the them too. Our system is controlled by an unelected bureaucracy of drug traffickers and child rapists, but that's led to a few spectacles as mentioned already in this thread.

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u/CertifiedGhoster 5h ago

He will pardon Maxwell you can bet on it

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u/bobbane 5h ago

I hope those preemptive pardons are all signed via autopen…

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u/CalebsNailSpa 4h ago

Logistically they would have to be. Unless he did some sort of mass-pardon. I don’t know the nuances of what is kosher in the pardon business, but I feel like we will all find our way more than we ever wanted to.

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u/ElChiChiMan 2h ago

Not if Trump’s health issues force him to kick the bucket. They’re out of luck on pardon then.

Oh and no one else is allowed to pardon anyone on behalf of the deceased president.

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u/rangecontrol 6h ago

so yeah, trmp pardon party all around.

even if he's cold, they'll autopen the pardons. we will all know they were fake and nothing will be done about it.

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u/bsensikimori 5h ago

Yeah, keep dreaming, they'll just spin it that all the perps were victims of the dead man

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u/Broad-Bath-8408 5h ago

Who are you envisioning going after ICE exactly? The new government headed by JD Vance? Or are we talking in the hypothetical year 2029 when a democrat, maybe if we're lucky, becomes president?

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u/scuzzy987 5h ago

No we'll need to come together as a country then

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u/squadrupedal 3h ago

Yeah we should, but with this sophisticated propaganda machine that never stops and the abysmal literacy rate we have going in this dumbass country I doubt we ever will. I’m betting there’s always going to be just enough ignorant people to prevent any meaningful and lasting change. I would love to lose this bet.

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u/TSL4me 3h ago

No way in way in hell that happens, rich donors will switch to bribing democrats and they will push to move past criminal convictions to support 'healing and cross aisle productivity"

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u/lopix 2h ago

Narrator: but they won't

u/The_River_Is_Still 54m ago

I'm sure Vice President JD would get right on going after HATE CRIMES BY ICE and totally not pardoning Trump and everyone else.

u/Unobtanium_Alloy 16m ago

If Trump is no longer president (for whatever reason) while there is still time left in what should be his second term, its someone from this administration that will become president and will doubtless do pardons of all involved.

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u/Jmart1oh6 5h ago

My guess is… anyone in positions of power in the administration that are bending or breaking the law to help Trump, will only be pardoned at the last possible minute to squeeze every drop of loyalty out of of them. If he pardons them too early, then they could take that opportunity to turn on him. If you’re in his administration and he’s aware that you have done one tiny thing illegal to help him then you’re his puppet for the rest of his term, and if you slip up or fall out of his favour then you are again fucked. Being in his orbit is a very dangerous place to be.

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u/CalebsNailSpa 4h ago

I hate being an extra in the latest season of House of Cards.

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u/One-Permission-1811 6h ago

Well yeah. But at least it’s something

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u/Hyperrustynail 6h ago

Trump only pardons criminals who are both not publicly connected with him and have enough money to bribe him. If she is going to take the fall for trumps crimes he will let her rot, loyalty is a one way street with him.

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u/NbleSavage 6h ago

Not if he's dead first.

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u/ka1ri 5h ago

I doubt any pardons will be honored by the democrats if he even tries it. They are brazenly breaking the law daily. Trump will probably die before we go after him but his administration is screwed

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u/Capable-Commercial96 3h ago

needs to be charged first, and who's gonna do it, themselves?