{"id":1176215,"date":"2021-12-31T18:49:58","date_gmt":"2021-12-31T23:49:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1176215"},"modified":"2021-12-31T18:50:00","modified_gmt":"2021-12-31T23:50:00","slug":"boris-johnsons-sister-goes-viral-for-calling-herself-ghislaine-maxwells-chum-in-november-article","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/boris-johnsons-sister-goes-viral-for-calling-herself-ghislaine-maxwells-chum-in-november-article\/","title":{"rendered":"Boris Johnson\u2019s Sister Goes Viral for Calling Herself Ghislaine Maxwell&#039;s &#039;Chum&#039; in November Article"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fboris-johnsons-sister-goes-viral-for-calling-herself-ghislaine-maxwells-chum-in-november-article%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1176215&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1235724312-640x335-1.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Rachel Johnson, sister of Prime Minister Boris Johnson, trended on Twitter after an article she wrote sympathising with Ghislaine Maxwell in November resurfaced.<\/p>\n<p>Writing in British political magazine <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/it-s-hard-not-to-pity-ghislaine-maxwell\"><em>The Spectator<\/em><\/a>, the Prime Minister\u2019s sister Rachel Johnson wrote a positive piece about her relationship with Ghislaine Maxwell on the 17th of November, shortly before Maxwell\u2019s trial begun.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>In a piece titled \u2018It\u2019s hard not to pity&nbsp;<span class=\"ContentPageTitle-module__prevent-widows\">Ghislaine Maxwell\u2019 which did not actually mention Maxwell until the final paragraph \u2014 with Johnson\u2019s initial focus instead being her pet dogs, her mother\u2019s death, and her podcast \u2014 she described an intimate encounter between the now-convicted child sex trafficker and her brother.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Johnson said she knew Maxwell when she was at university, describing her as a \u201cshiny glamazon\u201d, and suggested that her brother was at least somewhat familiar with her as well, recounting that the first time she saw Maxwell she had her \u201chigh-heeled boot\u201d resting on Boris\u2019 \u201cthigh\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>It is unknown whether Prime Minister Boris Johnson maintained his friendship with Maxwell post-university.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Rachel Johnson also mentioned that she attended an early Maxwell party and appeared to insinuate that other prominent individuals referred to as \u201cfairweather friends\u201d did as well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m sure fairweather friends would not reveal they went to a Ghislaine Maxwell party: as Barbara Amiel\u2019s brilliant memoir <em>Friends and Enemies<\/em> proves, you only know who your real chums are when you\u2019re in the gutter,\u201d she wrote, indicating that she counted herself as such a \u201cchum\u201d.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Ghislaine Maxwell was convicted of luring teenage girls to be sexually abused by Jeffrey Epstein. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/oiuyWQNUmV\">https:\/\/t.co\/oiuyWQNUmV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartNews\/status\/1476316191694151681?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 29, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>On the 29th of December, Ghislaine Maxwell, 60, was convicted and found guilty of conspiring to run a sex crimes ring with Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced billionaire who allegedly killed himself while on trial for similar charges.<\/p>\n<p>During the trial in New York the court <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/news\/ghislaine-maxwell-the-defrocked-socialite-convicted-over-epstein-sex-ring\/\">heard<\/a> how Maxwell acted as Epstein\u2019s right-hand confidante and accomplice, helping Epstein procure underage girls for sexual acts.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Two of the accusers who testified in the court said they were as young as 14 when Maxwell groomed them and forced them into performing sex acts on Epstein. It was also revealed that Maxwell would sometimes participate in the sexual abuse.<\/p>\n<p>Rachel Johnson\u2019s article resurfaced and trended on British Twitter on the 30th of December, a day after Maxwell was&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/news\/british-socialite-ghislaine-maxwell-convicted-of-sex-trafficking\/\">convicted<\/a> by a 12-person jury of five of the six counts she was facing, including the most serious charge of sex trafficking a minor.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Thousands of Twitter users across the board promptly ridiculed Johnson for what they saw as her sympathy for Maxwell in <em>The Spectator<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Veteran British journalist Sonia Poulton <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SoniaPoulton\/status\/1476509579764764672?s=20\">lambasted<\/a>&nbsp;the Johnson family as a whole, tweeting:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cApple didn\u2019t fall far from the tree with the Johnson clan. Rachel Johnson talked BS &amp; lost her temper in a studio when I said her brother was infamously lazy &amp; took many holidays. She said he worked 7 days a week. As if. Then, of course, there\u2019s her sympathy for the sex trafficker\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/morningstaronline.co.uk\/article\/b\/twitter-account-dr-louise-raw-reinstated-after-campaign-malicious-complaints\">Socialist<\/a> historian Dr Lousie Raw <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LouiseRawAuthor\/status\/1476510181492244484?s=20\">tweeted<\/a>: \u201c<span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">In November <\/span><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-b88u0q r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">Rachel Johnson<\/span><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\"> wrote a drooling piece about Ghislaine Maxwell\u2019s youthful intimacy with her brother Boris, &amp; defined herself as a \u2018REAL chum\u2019 not a \u2018fairweather friend\u2019 of the sex offender. The establishment code of (dis)honour- one\u2019s chums shouldn\u2019t go to jail!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>CNN senior producer Luke McGee <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lukemcgee\/status\/1476315964014796803?s=20\">commented<\/a> alongside a screenshot of Johnson\u2019s article: \u201cYou make the friends you make\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>American actor Michael McKean even weighed in,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MJMcKean\/status\/1476596323298136068?s=20\">tweeting<\/a>: \u201c<span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">Surprisingly easy not to pity <\/span><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-b88u0q r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">Rachel Johnson\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Surprisingly easy not to pity Rachel Johnson. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/K3I41ccueq\">https:\/\/t.co\/K3I41ccueq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Michael McKean (@MJMcKean) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MJMcKean\/status\/1476596323298136068?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 30, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Speaking to Breitbart, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/B_HQ\">Ben Harris-Quinney<\/a>, Chairman of the UK\u2019s oldest conservative think-tank, the Bow Group, commented on the multiple<em> Spectator<\/em> articles that appeared to sympathise with Maxwell.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is utterly baffling that they have run so many pieces placing a positive spin on Maxwell, the most recent being December 16th this year, one of many pieces defending her written for the <em>Spectator<\/em> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-truth-about-my-sister-ghislaine-maxwell\">Maxwell\u2019s own brother<\/a>. Whilst Ghislaine Maxwell was only found guilty this week, no one was in any doubt as to her guilt,\u201d he suggested.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>The Spectator<\/em> will perhaps say they are merely trying to provide balance, but is there really a market for that, morally or financially, when it comes to defending the international paedophile elite? Are they going to be running articles on the lighter side of [serial killer] Fred West, his abilities as a carpenter perhaps?\u201d<\/p>\n<h5 class=\"western\"><em><span>Follow Breitbart London on Facebook:<\/span><\/em><em>&nbsp;<\/em><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BreitbartLondon\/\"><span>Breitbart London<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rachel Johnson, sister of Prime Minister Boris Johnson, trended on Twitter after an article she wrote sympathising with Ghislaine Maxwell in November resurfaced. 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