Althouse: "Those are crimes against the vulnerable, and you’re putting them with a puppy who is vulnerable."

August 7, 2025

"Those are crimes against the vulnerable, and you’re putting them with a puppy who is vulnerable."

"We do not allow anyone whose crime involves abuse towards minors or animals — including any crime of a sexual nature. That’s a hard policy we have, so she will not be able to.”

Said Paige Mazzoni, head of Canine Companions, quoted in "Ghislaine Maxwell barred from service dog training at cushy prison camp." (NBC News).

25 comments:

Leland said...: I hear the scream "slow news day".; 8/7/25, 9:01 AM
Freder Frederson said...: It is also a "hard policy" of the Bureau of Prisons that sex criminals are not eligible for that particular facility.

So she will probably have a puppy in her dorm by the end of the week.; 8/7/25, 9:04 AM
tim maguire said...: That seems dumb. Her crime was facilitating others. SFAIK, she has not been accused of sexually abusing anybody herself.; 8/7/25, 9:05 AM
Wince said...: Yet transfer males "whose crime involves abuse towards minors or animals — including any crime of a sexual nature" to women's prisons?; 8/7/25, 9:10 AM
RideSpaceMountain said...: tim maguire said, "Her crime was facilitating others."

Though she didn't receive a conviction to that effect, I've heard different. Also, I'm not sure taking the word of a convicted felon about anything is the win some people keep thinking it is.

The daughter or Robert Maxwell isn't believable no matter what she says, before or after her conviction.; 8/7/25, 9:15 AM
n.n said...: Dogs are not humans. The mental association is different and likely disparate. Maxwell is accused of being a pimp for a man with a cispedophilic sexual orientation.; 8/7/25, 9:18 AM
n.n said...: males "whose crime involves abuse towards minors or animals — including any crime of a sexual nature" to women's prisons

Order of special and peculiar interests. Misogyny takes a knee to transsocial and trans/simulant progress.; 8/7/25, 9:20 AM
Inga said...: There are numerous victims of Epstein and Maxwell that said Maxwell engaged in sexual conduct with the underage girls she procured for Epstein and his clients. It takes a certain kind of psyche to do that. She’s not safe around vulnerable people and pets.

The GOP needs to be careful about trying to promote a narrative about Maxwell that she was a victim and was wrongly accused in order to protect Trump. Even people in his own base won’t accept it if she is pardoned.; 8/7/25, 9:34 AM
Original Mike said...: I get a kick out of Inga declaring what Trump's base will and will not accept.; 8/7/25, 9:42 AM
Leland said...: No worries. The GOP is in the process of exposing the Clinton's facilitation of the Epstein operation, in much the same way they facilitated the behavior of Harvey Weinstein and Democrats facilitated the illegal activities of Sam Bankman-Fried.; 8/7/25, 9:49 AM
Kakistocracy said...: Ghislaine Maxwell, who is hoping Trump will release her from jail, told Trump’s deputy attorney general, who is also his personal lawyer, that Trump did nothing wrong around Jeffrey Epstein. Where does Trump go for his apology?

I may not agree with Trump's tolerance of pedophiles, but unlike the inauthentic Democrats, I know where he stands.; 8/7/25, 9:50 AM
RCOCEAN II said...: Wow, life is tough at Club Fed. No puppies for you.; 8/7/25, 9:52 AM
Leland said...: If you question Democrats facilitating the activities like Epstein and others; I give you California's AB 495: A California parental rights group is warning that proposed state legislation aimed at protecting illegal immigrant children during family separations “dangerously redefines” guardianship and could ultimately “make kidnapping children” easier.

This stems from Hillary's "It takes a village" socialism. The notion is the children are the State's to do as they please and not the parents. Of course, they will couch it as "protecting the children", but when have we seen a government agency really protect anyone? This is the same state government that will convince you to medically kill yourself to save money for Medicare or more exactly tell minor children to make themselves sterile without parental consent. So, if you are really worried about pedophiles having access to children, you'll stand against California's AB 495.; 8/7/25, 9:57 AM
Mary E. Glynn said...: tim maguire said...
That seems dumb. Her crime was facilitating others. SFAIK, she has not been accused of sexually abusing anybody herself.
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Somebody's not following the story...

Your comments section screams out for a factchecker, ann. Nobody pushes back anymore.; 8/7/25, 9:58 AM
n.n said...: Maxwell the cispedophilic groomer deserves a guppy, not a puppy. What did the transpedophilic groomers receive? Don't ask. Don't tell.; 8/7/25, 9:58 AM
Peachy said...: Biden should be brought up on child sex trafficking charges. . Soros family, too. They funded and allowed illegal border crossings, drug and child sex trafficking to take place on a monumental scale.; 8/7/25, 10:07 AM
Inga said...: I wonder if Epstein/Maxwell victims buy Trump’s narrative that this scandal is fake, created by his enemies, bullshit even. Hopefully there will be testimony under oath one day and hopefully Acosta won’t be allowed to slip away quietly.

Whatever Maxwell says of course can never be trusted, under oath or not. She will do and say whatever she can to escape her punishment on this earth, in the afterlife she may have a tougher time, Trump won’t have any power there.; 8/7/25, 10:08 AM
Peachy said...: If Trump is in those "files" (and not added and padded by the same liars who manufactured the Russia Gate lies) - The left would have used it. Period. Biden had 4 years. The left had to manufacture BS right/left up down.
Bill Clinton will be protected.; 8/7/25, 10:10 AM
FullMoon said...: Even people in his own base won’t accept it if she is pardoned.
Stupid comment. Zero chance of a pardon.
If she says Trump not involved, left says she is lying.
If no documents mention Trump, they were modified.
If names are redacted, Trump was mentioned.

Nobody , left or right, believes Trump is a pedophile.
Men involved were taking advantage of free sex with attractive women.
Most women involved were being paid and taking advantage of wealthy men.; 8/7/25, 10:17 AM
Howard said...: A thinly veiled distraction; 8/7/25, 10:27 AM
RideSpaceMountain said...: "Nobody , left or right, believes Trump is a pedophile."

Unfortunately, there is a small cohort of the left that absolutely believe that (some can be found here). They tend to be elderly, female, own more than one cat, and worship Rachel Maddow.; 8/7/25, 10:35 AM
Kakistocracy said...: The House committee's subpoena list for matters tied to Jeffery Epstein excluded Alex Acosta — who was the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Florida whose secret non-prosecution agreement with Epstein created a spark that has turned into an inferno of controversy nearly 20 years later. ~ NBC News

Alex Acosta and Alan Dershowitz made the Epstein deal.; 8/7/25, 10:37 AM
Inga said...: “Americans are overwhelmingly skeptical of Donald Trump’s handling of information related to the Jeffrey Epstein case. In a new UMass Amherst national poll, 70 percent of respondents said Trump is not handling the Epstein case well, while only 18 percent said he is.

Among respondents who were aware of Epstein, the deceased billionaire and convicted sex offender, 63 percent agreed that the Trump administration “is hiding important information” about the case. Of those who said the administration is hiding information, a staggering 81 percent blamed Trump for it. Others in Trump’s orbit also received blame, including Attorney General Pam Bondi (59 percent), FBI Director Kash Patel (49 percent), and House Speaker Mike Johnson (47 percent). Just 16 percent blamed Democrats in Congress.”; 8/7/25, 10:48 AM
Original Mike said...: Matt Tiabbi: "There is no fact anywhere to support the idea that recent Russiagate releases are an attempt to “distract supporters who are angry about its broken promise to release the Jeffrey Epstein files.” It’s merely something that sounds right to Times readers,…

"It’s a small detail, but characteristic of what the Times has become. An experienced beat reporter would know the administration has been investigating Russiagate since Trump’s inauguration, that Patel referenced a discovery in this investigation on the Joe Rogan Experience on June 6th, and that CIA Director John Ratcliffe kicked off the recent releases with a report on the Trump-Russia probe that came out on July 2, before the much-criticized Epstein announcement by Pam Bondi’s Justice Department on July 7th."; 8/7/25, 11:00 AM
Peachy said...: The desperate left cling to what ever Trump scandal they think they have. Roll out the BS polls.

Again - if Biden and his handlers knew there was dirt there - they would have used it.; 8/7/25, 11:09 AM