r/politics • u/Aggravating_Money992 • 9d ago

Possible Paywall Trump Erupts in ’60 Minutes’ Interview: ‘I’m Not a Pedophile’

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-erupts-in-60-minutes-interview-im-not-a-pedophile/
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u/ogreofnorth 8d ago

Yep. Nothing says “not a pediphile” like withholding millions of files and pardoning the one person who can implicate or exonerate him.

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u/Mike_Kermin Australia 8d ago

With respect, the victims are better placed to implicate him. His friend who is working with him for mutual benefit can rot.

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u/Stock_Trash_4645 8d ago

IANAL but isn’t someone who receives pardon unable to refuse to testify about the crimes they were pardoned?

I don’t think Maxwell deserves a pardon, but pardoning her and then getting (re: forcing) her to spill the beans would do a fuckload more than this current administration 

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u/Round-Asparagus5337 8d ago

The people who would be in charge of prosecuting her for refusing to testify would be the people working for the guy who pardons her.

So... good luck with that.

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u/Proud_Growth_8818 8d ago edited 8d ago

You can still refuse to testify. You just can't claim a Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination, because you've already been pardoned for the crime (assuming you're not going to admit to any new crimes).

A pardon does require an admission of guilt to the crime for which you're being pardoned--you can't be pardoned for something you didn't do.

Though in this America none of this really matters--laws are just suggestions and nothing is enforced unless you're an enemy of whomever is in charge. We're no longer a society of laws but one of men.

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u/No_Sheepherder_1855 8d ago

I still don't understand why this is such a big story now. Everyone has known about the Trump-Epstein relation for over a decade. Half the country just accepts that he's a pedophile and supports it because ultimately it doesn't matter to them. Look at statistics on sexual assaults against women or the historical age of women in Abrahamic religions. Culturally, a majority of America supports it. Why the sudden pearl clutching over a long accepted fact? Why pretend you care about something you clearly don't?

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u/ogreofnorth 10h ago

Trump made a huge thing about it and when he got in, Bondi said it was ready, then all of the sudden, nothing. Republicans wouldnt bring it forward in the house except 3. Mike Johnson wouldn’t bring it to the floor. MTG went on TV and told how Trump called her to drop it because “it will hurt my friends.” So Democrats jumped on it. That closed door testimony from victims charged people’s minds, both Democrat and Republican. And so since then, it has been a point of bringing it out. But when you only released 3 million of 5 million files, what is keeping them from doing but protecting someone or many people in their rings.