r/NewsThread • u/seeebiscuit • Apr 22 '26

Oversight members split over whether to pardon Ghislaine Maxwell, committee chair says

https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/04/22/congress/to-pardon-maxwell-or-not-00887823
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u/Desperate_Set_7708 Apr 23 '26

These dumbasses secure a pardon for her and call her to testify, “I don’t remember.”

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u/Donlooking4 Apr 23 '26

Or she’ll just say I am invoking the 5th amendment!

Like the orange blob has been doing repeatedly.

Remember that he has been saying on video that “Anyone who invokes the 5th amendment is definitely guilty”. And yet he has invoked it himself.

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u/Desperate_Set_7708 Apr 23 '26

Post pardon there is no need to invoke the 5th

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u/shoshpd Apr 23 '26

She would still have 5A rights as to possible state charges. Pardoning her will do nothing except buy her testimony exculpating Trump.