President Donald Trump revealed on Monday that he has the constitutional power to pardon Ghislaine Maxwell but said no one has asked him about it.
Trump, speaking from his Turnberry resort in Scotland during a meeting with U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer, explained: ‘I’m allowed to give her a pardon. Nobody’s approached me with it. Nobody’s asked me about it. It’s in the news about that, that aspect of it. But right now, it would be inappropriate to talk about it.’
Ghislaine Maxwell
Maxwell, who met with Justice Department officials last week in a two-day interview with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, is serving 20 years in prison for her involvement in Jeffrey Epstein’s sordid crimes of sex trafficking.
She was convicted in 2021 on five counts related to sex trafficking and conspiracy.
Will Trump pardon Ghislaine?
A growing fringe effort to get Trump to pardon Maxwell has unfolded after the Justice Department rejected her effort to have her conviction on child sex trafficking charges thrown out.
Questions about Epstein and queries about his relationship with the notorious financer followed Trump from the United States to his meeting with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer in Scotland through the weekend.
He again denied ever making a controversial doodle for Epstein’s 50th birthday and claimed he’d never been to the financier’s private island in the Caribbean.
