Trump Wants to Pardon Maxwell But He Has Been Told His Presidency Could Unravel

Analysis from Adam:  Pardoning a killer he does without blinking an eye but pardoning A massive Pedophile is not the same thing. I think she will be see a dangling pardon in front of her and he bets she will say a story not incriminating Trump but dumping on Clinton or another biggie on the list. Its good to remember most of the pics have been released after Epstein died but remain is the secret stuff which involves the worse pedophiles but also victims which the are suppose to omit.

 

JIM ACOSTA

JUL 29

Donald Trump once famously said he could shoot somebody on 5th avenue “and I wouldn't lose any voters.” But QAnon? Given his behavior over the last few weeks in response to the Jeffrey Epstein scandal, it sure looks like he may do just that. Let me explain. 

In case anybody has forgotten, QAnon began shortly after Trump was first elected president. Sprouting in part from the false Pizzagate conspiracy theory, the far-right, extremist “Q” movement is, for all intents and purposes, a cult that believes a satanic cabal of deep state actors, namely Democrats, somehow controls a child sex-trafficking ring in Washington, D.C. Yes, it’s nutty stuff! Members of the Q cult are also convinced that Trump is destined to destroy the cabal once and for all. That, of course, poses a problem for Trump as he appears to be laying the groundwork to pardon Epstein’s ex-girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell, who is currently serving a 20 year prison sentence for the very crime QAnon has mobilized against over much of the last decade.

That raises a key question for Trump, who has managed to evade accountability at every turn during his rise to power: Can he get away with pardoning Maxwell? I’m not convinced he can. That would be tantamount to blowing a hole straight through the QAnon conspiracy theory. Trump can’t afford that, certainly not before the midterms, when he will need every voter from the fringe elements of his base. 

Wacky as QAnon may sound, its true believers have helped fuel MAGA’s strength for years. I’ve witnessed this up close at dozens of Trump rallies, beginning as far back as late July of 2018. See below.

Trump rally at Florida State Fairgrounds, July 2018 / photos and video by Jim Acosta That “Q,” crudely constructed out of a MAGA sign, was one of several QAnon posters and t-shirts I documented at a Trump rally in late July, 2018, at the Florida State Fairgrounds. You can also see some of the other Q messaging in this video below. Yes, many of the QAnon believers at this Trump rally were openly hostile toward yours truly. But I was more focused on the sizable segment of the crowd that was swept up in the Q craze. So I snapped as many pics and grabbed as much video as I could.

It was easy to spot the message, “WWG1WGA,” which stands for “where we go one, we go all” - one of the rallying cries of the QAnon cult. Political observers are well aware of that slogan now. But at that time, much of the Q movement was just beginning to surface publicly. My images went viral and prompted some in the mainstream media to begin covering QAnon more seriously. What’s obvious in the video is that Q believers are not just emotionally invested in the conspiracy theory at the heart of their cult. They view Trump as their savior.

Over the past several years, Trump has openly stoked these passions, both at the White House and out on the campaign trail. 

“I understand they like me very much,” Trump said at a news conference during his first term in 2020. Trump Talks QAnon

He later embraced QAnon on his Truth Social account, at one point appearing to wear a Q lapel pin with the message, “The Storm is Coming.” Trump Embraces QAnon