GroveHillWanderer

I don't think anyone is talking about whether it would be a good thing were it to happen, more that it is only a proposal, which seems unlikely to come about - and that in addition, the proposed legislation is coming from Josh Hawley not Trump.

OK - but you also said that Maxwell did not sexually abuse any minors and didn't directly touch any of the victims. The sworn eye-witness testimony presented at trial indicates otherwise

The story about his uncle and the Unabomber appears to be an example of a neurological phenomenon known as confabulation. According to the article below from Medical News Today: Understanding confabulation in dementia https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/confabulation-dementia

Sorry, but that's not accurate. Maxwell was both indicted for and convicted of, sexual abuse of minors. Evidence given by multiple witnesses at her trial showed that she was an active participant in the abuse, along with Epstein. Multiple witnesses testified that she did in fact "directly touch" them. Here's an extract from her indictment, published on the DOJ website. https://www.newsweek.com/jeffrey-epstein-client-list-raises-ghislaine-maxwell-questions-2095301 Here's a statement from the US Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York, after the guilty verdict. https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/statement-us-attorney-damian-williams-verdict-us-v-ghislaine-maxwell And here are verbatim statements made by witnesses during the trial. 4 women testified at Ghislaine Maxwell’s trial that they were sexually abused. Here’s what they said https://edition.cnn.com/2021/12/15/us/ghislaine-maxwell-trial-accusers

As reported in the Sun newspaper (and others) yesterday, Vladimir Putin suffered major blows from Ukraine with dramatic strikes on oil refineries, defence plants, a military airfield, and radar facilities. https://youtu.be/dT74pHeYEck?si=aup6kzkizGbs2gfm

Met 43 years ago, married for 41.

No, nothing like that - they just had their accounts suspended for life. 😁

Actually, it isn't even paused. The Swedish Embassy issued a statement denying that the deal is suspended. Sweden denies suspending sales of Gripen fighter jets to Thailand https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/3080218/sweden-denies-suspending-sales-of-gripen-fighter-jets-to-thailand

I can only find one allegation involving a teenager (13 years old) - here's her affidavit. JANE DOE, proceeding under a pseudonym, Plaintiff, v. DONALD J. TRUMP and JEFFREY E. EPSTEIN https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000158-26b6-dda3-afd8-b6fe46f40000 Various other women have publicly accused Donald Trump of sexual assault, including rape, kissing and groping without consent etc, although none of the others were teenagers at the time. The article below details many of the allegations. The Allegations Women Have Made Against Donald Trump https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/allegations-women-have-made-against-donald-trump-n665731 Altogether, a total of 25 women have made allegations of sexual misconduct against Trump.

According to various legal analysts I've heard talking about this, including at least one former prosecutor and assistant district attorney, it's very unusual for a convicted sexual abuser of children to be placed in one of these minimum security facilities. Child sexual offenses are considered very serious and are usually associated with higher security classifications.

If you haven't seen anything saying there were girls under 16 involved then you can't have been following the case much. It was widely reported that some of the girls were as young as 14. This was mentioned in the statement released by the US Attorney's Office after her sentencing (as it was by many media outlets during coverage of the trial). Ghislaine Maxwell Sentenced To 20 Years In Prison For Conspiring With Jeffrey Epstein To Sexually Abuse Minors https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/ghislaine-maxwell-sentenced-20-years-prison-conspiring-jeffrey-epstein-sexually-abuse And these were not girls going on dates with boys barely older than them, they were vulnerable and at-risk children who were targeted, groomed by Maxwell and then subjected to sexual abuse by both Epstein and Maxwell. Another extract from the same statement outlining what the evidence presented at trial proved:

I don't know about all of "the left" (it's hardly a monolithic body speaking with a single voice, after all) but Kim Leadbeater, the local Labour MP for Batley & Spen has condemned them. If you don't recall it, then perhaps you weren't paying attention, or maybe that's a bit of selective memory being applied. Batley Grammar School protest report 'deeply disturbing' - MP https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-leeds-68659435

I don't know about the other two (couldn't find anything about them in this regard) but Lucy Powell did walk back her comments once more facts were known. https://archive.ph/KHlKd (The original article was in the Manchester Evening News, but for some reason the link for it doesn't work - this is an archived version).

Again, I can't find where that says arms absolutely cannot be exported to countries at war. In fact, it pretty much states the opposite, as follows. You didn't provide a link, but I found it anyway. https://data.riksdagen.se/dokument/HCB377.html Incidentally, it even mentions how the section quoted above was applied in the case of selling arms to the US during the Iraq War.

That's not quite accurate, according to a study done by historian Sergey Radchenko and the political scientist Samuel Charap. Did Boris Johnson really sabotage peace talks between Russia and Ukraine? https:/www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/22/boris-johnson-ukraine-2022-peace-talks-russia