DOJ Questions Ghislaine Maxwell
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President Trump is facing fierce backlash for how his administration has handled the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking scandal.
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"Everybody around him was kind of like, ‘oh God, we hope she won’t say anything but we really hope he doesn’t pardon her.'"
Sex trafficker and Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell may invoke her Fifth Amendment right when giving testimony in response to a congressional subpoena. Maxwell’s lawyer, David Oscar Markus,
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OK Magazine on MSNGhislaine Maxwell Wants to Testify Before Congress About Epstein Files, Source Claims: 'She Would Welcome the Chance' to 'Tell the Truth'Ghislaine Maxwellis reportedly eager to speak in front of Congress about the Epstein files. Maxwell is the only person currently incarcerated with ties to Jeffrey Epstein, the infamous s-- trafficker who was jailed but committed suicide in 2019.
Mr Trump attended a dinner organised by Maxwell at Epstein’s mansion in Manhattan in honour of her close friend the Duke of York in 1999, according to The New York Post.
Biographer Michael Wolff alleges that Trump contemplated pardoning Ghislaine Maxwell after her arrest, fearing what she might disclose.
Trump, then in his first term, didn’t go through with the pardon. But when asked about Maxwell’s looming trial, he struck an oddly sympathetic tone. “I just wish her well, frankly.
The claim was that Fox News reported that Trump had said he would pardon Maxwell if he were elected as president again in 2024. In reality, Fox News had reported no such thing.