May 14, 2026
White House Chaos ERUPTS As Trump's Mass Pardon Plan Goes Public
White House division erupts with some officials raising their concerns of Donald Trump giving out more controversial pardons before the midterm elections while a new plan for Trump to issue 250 pardons for the nation's 250th birthday sparks suspicions of a Ghislaine Maxwell pardon. John Iadarola and Jackson White break it down on The Damage Report. Leave a comment with your thoughts below!
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Ghislaine Maxwell has been arrested on allegations
of child sex trafficking. Why would you wish
such a person well? don't know that. She's now
in jail. Yeah, I wish you well. I'd wish you
well. I'd wish a lot of people well. I haven't
really been following it too much. I just wish
her well, frankly. Have you ruled out a pardon
for Ghislaine Maxwell? I haven't even thought
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about it. I mean, I haven't thought about it
for months. Maybe I haven't thought about it
at all. You just asked me a question, but I
don't talk about that. I don't rule it in or
out. don't even think about it. I don't even
think about it. I think about it as little
as I think about your piddly little financial
concerns, American people. But I don't believe
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him. I don't believe him at all. I think that
he does think about Ghislaine Maxwell. I think
he has very positive and warm thoughts, memories
of the times they've spent together, the lives
they've ruined. And I do think that he is going
to pardon Ghislaine Maxwell. I don't think
he sent Todd Blanch down to personally negotiate
with her in private for nothing. I don't think
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that following that, she was gifted a cushy
position and a nice little resort prison for
nothing. I think it was given to her based
on the assurances she provided to Donald Trump's
personal lawyer, who is now, I'll remind you,
the acting Attorney General of the United
States. And I think he is definitely going to
partner. And I think I even know when he's
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going to partner. Because he's now talking about,
it's going to be America's 250th anniversary.
I got to get something for America. It's a big
one, so it's got to be something big. More
pardons, I'm going to do more pardons. In fact,
I'm going to do 250 pardons to mark the 250th
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birthday because of reasons, I guess. And yeah,
here's the thing. You could- Like Mark the
250th in a way that hearkens back to the best
in America. If you were to track down 250 people
that were wrongly convicted of their crimes,
and you were to pardon them and maybe compensate
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for the time that they wrongly spent in prison,
obviously he's not going to do that. We know
exactly what the pardon power is used for under
Donald Trump. It's for pardoning people who
try to overturn the results of elections, those
who try to murder cops, uh kid diddlers, and
frauds and con men. There are hundreds and hundreds
and hundreds and hundreds of those examples.
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And now there's going to be 250. And look,
when this happens, because he'll do this,
we'll talk about the fact that he tracked down
a whole bunch of millionaires and billionaires
who screwed people like you over, stole your
life savings, scam artist comment, all that.
But there's going to be so much dust kicked
up, you don't think he's going to try to sneak
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through a few things even crazier than that?
You don't think he's maybe hoping that if Ghislaine
Maxwell is just one of 250, care as much and
after all it's my birthday. You can't get on
my back when I do something on my birthday.
Now maybe I'm wrong. Maybe this will be yet
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another terrible John Adderall prediction. I
hope so, but I think we're getting closer and
closer to it. And some in the White House evidently
have raised concerns about doing too many more
pardons before the midterm elections. But honestly,
why would Donald Trump be concerned about that?
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We've done everything we can here to get people
to care about the pardons he's already done.
And I- I am not so arrogant to think that it's
had any effect whatsoever. I don't think most,
now look at the American people hate Donald
Trump. His polls are down. I don't even think
it's because of the pardons. I think he could
do this and will do this day after day after
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day, knowing it's not gonna make any effect
whatsoever on his numbers. And I'm not even
at this point confident that Ghislaine being
pardoned would actually matter. It matters
to me. I hope it matters to you. What do you
think, Jackson? Yeah, I think that Trump, I
mean, maybe- his approval will go down some
more. But I think for the most part, he's probably
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bottomed out. I mean, I don't know, George
Bush, was his approval, like 23 % or something
along those lines when he left office? Trump's
approval might not get that low uh because
there's still so many people who are just in
it for the personality cult. We'll see, but
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I agree. don't think that pardoning, mean,
if everything thus far about Trump's involvement
with Epstein, all the just unbelievably sinister
things that we discovered and found out. If
that wasn't enough, why would pardoning Ghislaine
make a further dent? So I agree, I don't think
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that that's really gonna make much of a difference.
If and when he does pardon her, it absolutely
won't be a surprise because just his pattern
of behavior. But it's also kind of silly because
we already know what Donald Trump has been
involved with with Epstein. So what What does
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she really have to threaten him with at this
point? But I don't know, this is the mind
of Donald Trump, someone who fundamentally
cannot take accountability for himself at
all. So it's just par for the course. It's
hard to know what's going on with his mind.
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