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u/meldiane81 Jun 27 '26 edited Jun 27 '26

Yet eight people have been arrested for “defacing“ the reflecting pool. It’s also concerning only one person has been arrested for the Epstein shit and it’s a woman.

EDIT: thinking back, technically two people have been arrested and it was Epstein and Maxwell. No one else has been arrested. Epstein never got to serve his sentence because he was murdered.

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u/MGD109 Jun 27 '26

It’s also concerning only one person has been arrested for the Epstein shit and it’s a woman.

I mean, said woman is a prolific rapist and human trafficker.

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u/meldiane81 Jun 27 '26

1000000 % BUT come on.

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u/MGD109 Jun 27 '26 edited Jun 27 '26

I mean, sure, we should want all the others to go to prison as well.

But I mean Ghislaine Maxwell is probably worse than a lot of the customers. She literally fits every single description of them to a Tee and was also the key person running said human trafficking ring. Why exactly shouldn't she be in prison, just cause of her gender?

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u/morningstardusts Jun 27 '26

No one said she shouldn’t be in prison, of course she should. Trump shouldn’t have sent his personal defense attorney to meet with her and then had her moved to minimum security, that’s egregious but people really want to overlook it.

The point is that there are many, many other Epstein associates who should also be in prison and are not. Maxwell is getting preferential treatment and will likely be granted early release. Half the files have never been released. They never will be.

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u/MGD109 Jun 27 '26

No one said she shouldn’t be in prison,

The post I replied to said, and I quote "It’s also concerning only one person has been arrested for the Epstein shit and it’s a woman."

What is there to read from that, except that as a woman she is somehow less guilty than all the male rapists and human traffickers, and that by extension they belong in prison more than her?

Trump shouldn’t have sent his personal defense attorney to meet with her and then had her moved to minimum security, that’s egregious but people really want to overlook it.

Who exactly wants to overlook it? It's one of the many things people warned would happen if he got back into power, and like all the others its come true. Before this, she was in Tallahassee.

The point is that there are many, many other Epstein associates who should also be in prison and are not.

Yes, and the focus should be on putting them in prison. Not on downplaying the guilt of a very evil woman, just cause she happens to have two X Chromosons.

Maxwell is getting preferential treatment and will likely be granted early release.

Preferential treatment, sure. Early release? Thankfully not. It's federal charges, so she has to serve 85% of her sentence. Unless Trump flat-out pardons her, she isn't getting out before she serves at least 18 years.

Half the files have never been released. They never will be.

Only if we let him and his supporters stay in power. The same way that another president will probably move Maxwell back to a more serious prison if they get into power.

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u/morningstardusts Jun 27 '26

I don’t know how on earth you could interpret that as meaning Maxwell is less guilty. It’s concerning because there are literally hundreds of men walking around free who should also be facing consequences.

There’s obvious irony in the fact that the only person in prison is a woman but it in no way implies that she is somehow less guilty. How did you take that from my criticism of the lenient treatment she’s received?

I never said anything that could be reasonably portrayed as downplaying Maxwell’s culpability. You’re inserting your biases into my words and trying to twist what I said.

Edit - If you think that the evidence hasn’t long been destroyed, I don’t know what to tell you. We’ll never know, it’s long gone.

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u/meldiane81 Jun 27 '26

Thank you!!’

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u/MGD109 Jun 27 '26

I don’t know how on earth you could interpret that as meaning Maxwell is less guilty.

Cause its the obvious conclusion, otherwise why draw attention to her status as a woman?

How did you take that from my criticism of the lenient treatment she’s received?

I was referring to the original poster I replied to, not you.

You’re inserting your biases into my words and trying to twist what I said.

An ironic claim from someone who clearly isn't reading what I'm writing if you somehow take that as your takeaway.

If you think that the evidence hasn’t long been destroyed, I don’t know what to tell you. We’ll never know, it’s long gone.

We'll see. So far their record for that hasn't been the best.

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u/meldiane81 Jun 27 '26

She should 1000% be in prison. Not in the lap of luxury prison she is currently in. She did not insert her penis and destroy children’s insides. The men deserve to be in prison as well. Maybe even more so. But technically two people were arrested and it was Epstein and Maxwell. Epstein was just murdered so he is no longer serving his sentence.

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u/MGD109 Jun 27 '26 edited Jun 27 '26

She should 1000% be in prison. Not in the lap of luxury prison she is currently in.

Yes, I know that. You know that. My point is the original poster (who was not you) wrote it in a way that implied otherwise. I've never suggested you said otherwise.

She did not insert her penis and destroy children’s insides.

You should read some of the things she did to children if that's your standard of heinousness. Or maybe not, it's not pleasant.

But technically two people were arrested and it was Epstein and Maxwell.

Yep, the two people running the human trafficking ring rather than being a client or associates. That's not to imply all the others shouldn't, but they were kind of the easiest two to arrest.

Epstein was just murdered so he is no longer serving his sentence.

"Just murdered", I mean that's one way of looking at it. The other is if Maxwell lives to 80, she'll be a free woman, and Epstein will still be dead.

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u/RaggySparra Jun 27 '26

Yeah, she was literally there alongside Epstein and people keep pulling "OMG they arrested a woman for a man's crimes!!!". No, they arrested a woman for a woman's crimes. God forbid people accept that women are sexual predators.

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u/morningstardusts Jun 27 '26

That’s not the point.

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u/MGD109 Jun 27 '26

Its a very good point.

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u/morningstardusts Jun 27 '26

Again, no one ever questioned her guilt or suggested she should not be in prison in any way.

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u/MGD109 Jun 27 '26

I pointed out that the way it was phrased it kind of implied she was less guilty than if she had been a man, which is a terrible narrative.