Donald Trump does not rule out the possibility of pardoning convicted Jeffrey Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell.
Maxwell is currently serving a 20-year prison sentence after being convicted on charges of sex trafficking and transporting minors to participate in illegal sex acts.
Trump told reporters at the White House Friday that he “hadn’t thought about” pardoning Maxwell or commuting her sentence, adding, “I’m allowed to do it, but it’s something I have not thought about.”
Trump’s non-answer comes as his former personal attorney turn deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche is interviewing Maxwell for a second day Friday at a courthouse in Tallahassee, Florida.
Critics have suggested that Maxwell has everything to gain from helping Trump and that he could pardon Maxwell in exchange for testimony that’s favorable to him as they try to find a way out of the Epstein scandal that has engulfed the White House for weeks
Former Watergate prosecutor Nick Akerman told CNN prosecutors may be hoping that Maxwell “will be motivated to say that Donald Trump didn’t know what Jeffrey Epstein was up to with underage girls and they never participated in that.”
