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Trump’s refusal to say a clean no to pardoning Ghislaine Maxwell kept the Epstein scandal burning on July 26, even as his team tried to calm the situation. The ambiguity only fed the suspicion that the administration was treating a sex-trafficking case like a political negotiation. The backlash was immediate, bipartisan, and entirely predictable.
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Trump’s refusal to say a clean no to pardoning Ghislaine Maxwell kept the Epstein scandal burning on July 26, even as his team tried to calm the situation. The ambiguity only fed the suspicion that the administration was treating a sex-trafficking case like a political negotiation. The backlash was immediate, bipartisan, and entirely predictable.
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Trump’s refusal to say a clean no to pardoning Ghislaine Maxwell kept the Epstein scandal burning on July 26, even as his team tried to calm the situation. The ambiguity only fed the suspicion that the administration was treating a sex-trafficking case like a political negotiation. The backlash was immediate, bipartisan, and entirely predictable.
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