US President Donald Trump Chip Somodevilla via Getty ImagesOn his way out the door to a weekend golf trip that’s set to cost American taxpayers at least $10 million, Donald Trump stopped to answer a couple questions from reporters ― and he was awfully cagey when asked about Ghislaine Maxwell. Asked if he would pardon or commute the sentence of Maxwell, sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s onetime girlfriend, Trump sure didn’t say “no.”Advertisement“I’m allowed to do it,” he told reporters. He then claimed that “it’s something I’ve not thought about.”Trump on pardoning Ghislaine Maxwell: "I'm allowed to do it" pic.twitter.com/e9bjwFqfYr — Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 25, 2025Presumably, Trump wouldn’t pardon Maxwell, who was convicted for helping Epstein sexually abuse underage girls, unless it benefited him personally — perhaps by buying her silence or otherwise somehow distracting the country from his own past relationship with Epstein. Maxwell is serving a 20-year sentence at a federal prison in Tallahassee, Florida. “What I do want to say is that Blanche is a great attorney,” Trump told reporters.

Source: Huffington Post July 26, 2025 14:05 UTC