People living in the neighborhood surrounding Federal Prison Camp Bryan in the Texas town of the same name tell NBC News they’ve been seeing a lot more patrols around the penal facility for female white collar convicts – and one sex offender who normally would not have been eligible if not for a special deal – since the arrival of said sex offender, Jeffrey Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell.
Daisy Perez, 42 has lived across the street for nine years and said she never had any real worries about the place, that the inmates had sometimes waved at her and her 78 year-old mom, and that Sunday visitation days had resembled picnics. Then last week she noticed armed guards checking cars, a lot more patrol vehicles circling the perimeter, new cameras mounted on utility poles, and opaque black mesh affixed to the single layer of chain-link fencing. Perez and other neighbors say they’d gotten used to media attention from other high-profile convicts arriving and staying at the joint, but it’s been a whole new level lately. “I say that’s crazy,” Perez said. “It’s creepy.”
Other neighbor Marina Boland was similarly less than pleased. “I don’t consider what she did a nonviolent offense,” Boland said of Maxwell, adding “It’s scary to think,” that some QAnon freaks could be headed for the town to rush the prison to get to Maxwell. “People could be out here to cause harm.” Local man Robert, who declined to give his last name, said the Epstein accomplice’s arrival at the Club Fed “makes me mad… The punishment does not match her crimes.”
That’s one way of putting it. The other is that this obviously wasn’t just a side-door perk like if convicted felon President Trump’s defense lawyer-turned-Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche had simply smuggled in a bottle of Chateau Pichon Baron so she could drink it out of a paper cup while they chatted last month and then signed off on the transfer as a favor to her lawyer who’s been helpful with flipping defendants in other big federal cases. No, this is far closer to a “whole of government effort” in which a significant amount of taxpayer resources have been devoted to bubble-wrapping a twisted sex trafficker in advance of a full pardon in January 2029.
“I want to protect the women of our country. I want to protect the women… I’m going to do it whether the women like it or not. I’m going to protect them. I’m going to protect them from migrants coming in. I’m going to protect them from foreign countries that want to hit us with missiles and lots of other things… I’m going to defend and I’m going to protect women. I’m not going to let people go up to the suburbs or go into places where they live, whether it’s suburbs or cities or farms. We’re going to protect our women at the border. We’re going to protect our women… Is there any woman in this giant stadium who would like not to be protected? Is there any woman in this stadium that wants to be protected by the president?” said the fat fuck at a rally in Green Bay, Wisconsin on October 30th, 2024, toward the very end of a campaign in which he constantly weaponized the murders of Laken Riley, Jocelyn Nungaray, and other tragic victims of “savage criminals who assault, rape, and murder our women and girls” but that it was really Joe Biden and Kamala Harris’s fault.
Just minutes later he aired a clip of Jocelyn’s mom Alexis describing in horrific detail what happened to her daughter at the hands of an undocumented migrant, all in service of how it was his mission to protect women from foreign-born predators (Worth asking if Alexis is in an ICE gulag now). Now look which woman – a foreign-born predator who sexually violated teenage girls – is being protected and kept safe, all to ensure a certain someone else is being protected and kept safe, politically.
So yeah, this was apparently the least bad option for the Trump Regime as far as Maxwell goes, making it painfully fucking obvious that something very dirty is going on. That’s preferable to giving congressional investigators access to her when Dems could get their hands on the transcript.
…even as the victims are starting to speak up.
The only real questions now are how well this is going to work out for him. Three and a half years is a long time in a place filled with more than a few highly educated, manipulative sociopaths who might have ideas on how to extract information from a lonely pariah. Could be simple as smuggling a puppy into her cell for some wet nose time. Or some other “enticements.” And even if Maxwell is the keys to the kingdom, there are a whole lot of other pieces of it out there and a lot of people are looking for them. It’s not like the Mueller Investigation, where Trump could bring a line of inquiry to a dead stop by dangling a pardon. Is all this bubble-wrapping really going to be worth it?