Trump Is Breaking The Rules To Protect Ghislaine Maxwell

The Trump administration’s decision to move convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell to the lowest-security prison possible has not only raised eyebrows about her future, but it has also violated the very rules that our prison system has in place. For someone with a conviction like Maxwell’s, they are not allowed to be in the type of minimum-security facility that she now calls home. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins explains what happened.

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Just days after she spent two days talking with deputy, uh, uh, attorney General Todd Blanche, who also happens to be Trump's former personal lawyer. Ghislaine Maxwell was moved from the maximum security federal prison in Tallahassee, Florida to basically a club fed in Texas where she is, of course closer to her family. So Ghislaine Maxwell, whose lawyer has stated publicly that she needs a pardon if she's gonna testify before Congress, 'cause God forbid she incriminated herself in more criminal activity, has now been moved to what is basically a summer camp for criminals. It's dormitory style housing, which means she's not in a cell, you're not in, you know, a lockdown with roommates or bunk mates or whatever. You're in your own little room, your own little world. It's kind of nice, you know, not the greatest, obviously it's still jail, but is it, is the lowest level of prison security available?

And in order to move her, the administration had to seek a special waiver because technically, according to the rules of our federal prison system, a convicted sex offender, which is what Ghislaine Maxwell is, and for will, will forever be, um, they're not allowed to be in a prison with the lowest level of security. So they actually had to obtain this special waiver to give GS lane a special favor because she is obviously giving this administration special favors. But that's not why they did it. Oh no. According to the administration, we had to do it because she's getting death threats. You know, we were worried that the other inmates in that Florida prison were gonna do something horrible to her. So we, we moved her to protect her. Cool. Move her to a different federal prison, move her to not the lowest level security possible. You see, you see how their argument immediately falls apart is, by the way, the reason she's getting all these death threats.

It's not because she's snitching on people with the Epstein files. No, no, no. This actually has to do with the fact that according to the administration, she turned in a bunch of fellow inmates who are allegedly engaging in some kind of blackmail scheme. So she turned in the dangerous criminals she's housed with and expects nothing to happen at that point. I mean, look, I'm glad she turned 'em in. That's what you're supposed to do. But at the same time, you gotta have a little bit of self preservation skills if you're in prison. I imagine. I've never been there. But, you know, don't, uh, um,

As the old expression goes, and let me clean it up a little, don't poop where you eat. And, and it seems like GLA and Maxwell took a big old dump on her dinner plate right there. Like, what did you think was going to be the reaction from these people in a maximum security federal prison when you just extended their prison sentences? Did you think they were gonna be like, ah, I don't worry about it. I actually like being here. No, these are dangerous people who are gonna do horrible things to you if you do that. So I don't know what Maxwell expected. I don't know why she has no survival skills, but that's on her. And if something were to happen to her in federal prison from the other inmates because she turned them in, um, I don't care.