Trump speaks Diddy and Ghislaine Maxwell pardon reporters: “I haven’t heard this name so long”
President Donald Trump said Monday that he will consider pardoning Gisray Maxwell, a convicted sex trafficker who co-conspired with the president’s late friend Jeffrey Epstein, a pedophile, to traffic and abuse underage girls in multiple states.
He also said hip-hop tycoon Sean Diddy, whose comb was asked for pardon, was sentenced to more than four years in federal prison last week after conviction of federal prostitution.
Whether Trump would consider Maxwell’s leniency during an event about approving a new mining lane in Alaska, a British socialite who was charged with sexual trafficking charges after Epstein once described himself as Trump’s best friend, once described himself as a New York detention cell while awaiting a New York detention team on similar Charges in 2019.
“You know, I haven’t heard the name in a long time. I can say that, I have to look at it. I have to look at it.”
He then said he had to “talk with the Justice Department” and stressed that he didn’t know “anything” about the matter, even though the case dominated months of headlines, a bipartisan effort to force the Justice Department to attempt to prosecute Epstein.
President Donald Trump spoke on Monday about a potential pardon from Diddy and Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell. (Getty Image)
He added: “I will see… a lot of people ask me for pardon.”
Trump also said that the Combs he called “Puff Daddy” (a nickname that the rapper has not used since his acquittal and bribery charge a quarter of a century ago – also demanded his pardon.
The president’s comments to Maxwell came hours after the Supreme Court denied her appeal, and her attorneys applied for it on the grounds that she should never be sued because a previous non-trial agreement with Epstein of Florida should be applied for her Florida Epstein with the consent of the deceased.
The Justice Department called on the judge to reject the argument, and attorney D. John Sauer believes that the U.S. attorney responsible for the agreement will need to obtain permission to apply for the clause outside the region.
Maxwell was prosecuted in 2020 for crimes related to Epstein’s decades-long recruitment of young women and girls (some 14-year-old young women) and for sexually abused them.
Prosecutors said that from 1994 to 2004, Maxwell and Epstein worked together to recruit young girls and lure them to Epstein’s property. During the 2021 month trial, survivors testified in the federal court in Manhattan, where Maxwell embellished them, took their passports and sexually abused them.
Donald Trump’s relationship with Epstein and Maxwell was re-examined after the Justice Department tried to end the investigation, despite the president’s pledge to release the so-called “Epstein Archives”, critics argued that critics could expose a wider conspiracy, suggesting powerful figures.
Maxwell’s attorney David Oscar Markus told independent In a statement, her legal team was “deeply disappointed” and the court refused to hear her case.
He added: “But this struggle is not over yet. Serious legal and factual issues remain and we will continue to pursue all available avenues to ensure justice.”
Maxwell, 63, was originally scheduled to be released until 2040. Her best chance of early release is a presidential pardon, although legal experts warn that public statements show that pardons are even out of reach on the table can encourage Maxwell to do whatever she can be able to secure a person’s ability.
Her attorney Markus has previously said Maxwell would “welcome” one, although she has not formally sought Trump’s pardon.
Alex Woodward contributed coverage from New York
