Trump Is Almost Definitely Going To Pardon Ghislaine Maxwell

Donald Trump refused to rule out issuing a presidential pardon to convicted child trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell when asked by CNN's Kaitlin Collins about it this week. Trump lied during part of his response, claiming that he didn't know the Supreme Court rejected her appeal or that she even wanted a pardon. The man's refusal to deny a pardon likely means that he's already considered it and will likely do it before he leaves office. 

Believe it or not, Marjorie Taylor Greene actually came up with a good idea that she promoted on Facebook the other day, calling for all social media influencers to reveal who they receive funding from. She likened it to the fact that politicians have to say who paid for their advertisements and approved them, and social media influencers should have to do the same. Again, not a bad idea, but it still doesn't go far enough. If social media influencers have to reveal who funds them, then politicians like Greene should be required to do the same.

Local police officers in Chicago are furious after a group of incompetent ICE agents ended up tear gassing them while confronting protesters (who also should not have been tear gassed.) This is not the first incident where police officers have been gassed by ICE, according to the sheriff, and the mistakes that these federal agents are making are putting everyone's lives at risk.

Donald Trump had a meltdown this week after Fox News host Peter Doocy spoke with Democratic Senator Mark Kelly about the government shutdown, and Kelly was able to explain that the shutdown is about providing healthcare to Americans. Trump lost his mind at this truth bomb (which completely blew up his narrative about the shutdown) and he took to Truth Social to air all of his usual grievances against the conservative network somehow being "so bad for Republicans" by allowing a truth to slip out. 

Donald Trump put out a video from the Oval Office this week where he told young people that they "owe" him because he's the one who "saved" TikTok. This type of loyalty demand is absolutely unAmerican, but most importantly, it completely ignores the facts of what actually happened. Trump may have prevented TikTok from going offline, but he's already pledged to turn it into a right wing propaganda outlet owned by two of the biggest purveyors of misinformation on the planet - who happen to be rabid conservatives.

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