🔵 Ghislaine Maxwell Pardon?

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Citizen Frank
July 25, 2025

Good morning. It’s Friday, July 25.

President Trump declined to rule out the possibility of pardoning Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell on Friday, telling reporters he hadn’t thought about it but was “allowed to do it.” As Maxwell met for a second day with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, Trump shifted focus to other Epstein-linked figures, including Bill Clinton, Larry Summers, and several unnamed hedge fund executives, saying, “I’ll give you a list.”

“It’s something I haven’t thought about it. I’m allowed to do it, but it’s something I have not thought about,” Trump told reporters when asked about a pardon or clemency for Maxwell.

“I certainly can’t talk about pardons,” he later added, while leaving the White House for a trip to Scotland.

 
 

The Justice Department has been sitting on more than 100,000 pages of Jeffrey Epstein-related files, despite an exhaustive months-long review that mobilized hundreds of FBI agents and prosecutors in a desperate attempt to find documents that could be safely released.

NYT reported:

This spring, the F.B.I. and the Justice Department made an all-out push involving hundreds of employees to scour the Jeffrey Epstein files with a single goal in mind — find something, anything, that could be released to the public to satisfy the mounting clamor from the angry legions of President Trump’s supporters.

Ghislaine Maxwell is meeting with the Department of Justice again today for a second time this week.

Writing on X, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said that he would meet with the imprisoned accomplice of Jeffrey Epstein, a convicted sex offender who, according to a memo released this month by the DOJ and the FBI, died by suicide in a New York jail in 2019 while awaiting sex trafficking charges. Maxwell and Blanche will meet to continue their discussions about the Epstein case.

The meeting comes as the Trump administration fights to silence critics over apparent backtracking on the case involving Epstein.

Alina Habba, President Trump’s pick to serve as New Jersey US attorney, will continue to serve as the Garden State’s top prosecutor despite a panel of judges rejecting her for the post.

“Donald J. Trump is the 47th President. Pam Bondi is the Attorney General. And I am now the Acting United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey,” Habba wrote on X Thursday.

“I don’t cower to pressure. I don’t answer to politics,” she added. “This is a fight for justice. And I’m all in.”

After another instance of misinformation or flat-out falsehoods regarding an illegal alien surfaced from The Morning Call, a disturbing pattern has emerged that misleads Americans and causes undue fear for immigrants, both legal and illegal, across the country.

The article last week reported falsely that Luis Leon, an 82-year-old Chilean national living in Allentown, Pennsylvania, “disappeared” after visiting a Philadelphia immigration office in June to replace his lost green card, where he was allegedly handcuffed and taken away without explanation, officials said.

His family claimed that they were unable to locate him through immigration officials or Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) detainee database, and was falsely informed of his death, only to later learn he was in fact detained in Minnesota and then transferred to a hospital in Guatemala.

Higher education will need to rework its financial aid system to stop scammers from using artificial intelligence bots to steal millions of taxpayer dollars each year, an AI expert told The College Fix.

Alliance for Secure AI spokesperson Peyton Hornberger made this comment in response to recent reports that scammers used AI-generated bots to steal more than $13 million in federal and state financial aid from California Community Colleges over the course of one year.

In 2024 alone, scammers stole about $8.4 million in federal financial aid and more than $2.7 million in aid from the state, according to The Los Angeles Times.

At least 15 people have been killed in Thailand and another in Cambodia in fighting between Thai and Cambodian troops, authorities say, as more than 120,000 people living along both sides of their border flee the ongoing violence.

Deadly fighting continued for a second day on Friday as both countries traded heavy artillery and rocket fire in the bloodiest military confrontation between the two Southeast Asian neighbours in more than a decade.

“The situation has intensified and could escalate into a state of war,” acting Thai Prime Minister Phumtham Wechayachai told reporters.

The fertility rate in the U.S. dropped to an all-time low in 2024 with fewer than 1.6 children being born per woman, federal data released Thursday shows.

The U.S. was once among only a few developed countries with a rate that ensured each generation had enough children to replace itself — about 2.1 kids per woman. But it has been sliding in America for close to two decades as more women are waiting longer to have children or never taking that step at all.

The new statistic is on par with fertility rates in western European countries, according to World Bank data.

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