What's wrong with these pictures and what could justify pardoning Ghislaine Maxwell after three years since what she did justified a 20 year sentence? By Hal M. Brown

Ghislaine Maxwell may have done far worse than what she was convicted of doing. We are hearing reports from more and more victims that this is true. I won’t go into specifics here, but she’d have been crazy to tell Todd Blanche about this since she knew he was part of her ticket to get out of prison. The crucial person in all this is her old friend, Donald Trump, who she knows needs a report from Blanche to give him a reason to pardon her. She has to be portrayed as a victim herself. Maybe not as a saint, but as a victim of the nefarious devil Jeffrey Epstein.

Lots of criminals get away with avoiding punishment for acts because the prosecution doesn’t have enough evidence to make the case in court. Sometimes a jury lets a suspect off on some counts even though they are guilty. This can be because they don’t think the prosecution made the case beyond a reasonable doubt. The jury may convict them on other, sometimes less serious, counts.

Maxwell is 65 years old. Federal inmates serve an average of 85% of their sentence. They are required to serve a minimum of 85% of their sentence before becoming eligible for release. So at best she will be elderly when she is released if she serves her full sentence. I point this out because it is the judge who sets a sentence. They consider various factors, including the nature of the crime and the defendant's criminal history, before deciding on an appropriate punishment. The judge in her case knew that a 20 year sentence for a 63 year old was basically a sentence, if not for life, for until she didn’t have much of her life remaining. Obviously, a 25 year old who got that sentence would get out and still have much of their lives to live.

In a normal sane world nobody who had a friendship with a criminal who’d been incarcerated for a crime would be allowed to order them to be released. No way, no how!

This is not a normal world. Trump has become the new sentencing judge. Blanche is about to provide him with what would in a trial be a pre-sentencing report. Trump, in his insensitivety to victim’s feelings and callous disregard of what is just, seems about to set this criminal friend of his free.

The poor innocent lady doesn’t deserve to be locked up in a federal prison in Tallahassee, right?

What will follow? It might be a celebration for her at Mar-a-Lago.

Maybe she’s been practicing her dance moves to impress her new Big Daddy, Donald, at the gala he throws for her.

After all, she is serving her time in Tallahassee knowing how close she is to Palm Beach, so near yet so far…

Breaking news: Is Bongino going to support a whitewash of Maxwell’s criminality, or take an honest stand and go up against Trump if he pardons her? It is impossible to tell from this:

During my tenure here as the Deputy Director of the FBI, I have repeatedly relayed to you that things are happening that might not be immediately visible, but they are happening. The Director and I are committed to stamping out public corruption and the political weaponization of both law enforcement and intelligence operations. It is a priority for us. But what I have learned in the course of our properly predicated and necessary investigations into these aforementioned matters, has shocked me down to my core. We cannot run a Republic like this. I’ll never be the same after learning what I’ve learned. We are going to conduct these righteous and proper investigations by the book and in accordance with the law. We are going to get the answers WE ALL DESERVE. As with any investigation, I cannot predict where it will land, but I can promise you an honest and dignified effort at truth. Not “my truth,” or “your truth,” but THE TRUTH. God bless America, and all those who defend Her. Respectfully, Dan