<p>President Donald Trump said Friday morning that he &#8220;hasn&#8217;t thought about&#8221; pardoning Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein&#8217;s former girlfriend and accomplice, who is serving 20 years in prison for sex trafficking.</p>
<p>Trump spoke to a gaggle of reporters as he was departing the White House for Europe to meet with the Scottish Prime Minister.</p>
<p>&#8220;Would you consider a pardon or a commutation for Ghislaine Maxwell?&#8221; a reporter asked.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Reporter: Would you consider a pardon or commutation for Ghislaine Maxwell?</p>
<p>Trump: I’m allowed to do it, but it’s something I haven’t thought about <a href="https://t.co/hxtckbf9b3">pic.twitter.com/hxtckbf9b3</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Acyn (@Acyn) <a href="https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1948742417945166140?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 25, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s something I haven&#8217;t thought about,&#8221; Trump responded. &#8220;I&#8217;m allowed to do it, but it&#8217;s something I have not thought about.&#8221;</p>
<p>Trump&#8217;s comments come one day after Todd Blanche, the second highest-ranking Justice Department official, <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/top-doj-official-todd-blanche-meeting-with-ghislaine-maxwell/">met</a> with Maxwell on Thursday at the U.S. attorney&#8217;s office in Tallahassee, Florida.</p>
<p>“If Ghislane Maxwell has information about anyone who has committed crimes against victims, the FBI and the DOJ will hear what she has to say,” Blanche <a href="https://x.com/AGPamBondi/status/1947622027587723365" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a statement earlier this week.</p>
<p>Blanche continued interviewing Maxwell on Friday.</p>
<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s over there now,&#8221; Trump said of Blanche Friday morning. &#8220;I don&#8217;t know exactly what&#8217;s happening, but I certainly can&#8217;t talk about pardons now.&#8221;</p>
<p>Another reporter asked, &#8220;Can you trust what she&#8217;s telling him? She&#8217;s a convicted trafficker who&#8217;s eager to get out of prison?&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Well, you know, he&#8217;s a professional lawyer,&#8221; Trump responded. &#8220;I think he&#8217;s been through things like this before.&#8221;</p>
<p>Maxwell&#8217;s lawyer <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/top-doj-official-todd-blanche-meeting-with-ghislaine-maxwell/">said</a> she had answered &#8220;every one&#8221; of the government&#8217;s questions on Thursday.</p>
<p>Trump also again denied he had written a &#8220;bawdy&#8221; birthday letter to Epstein, which The Wall Street Journal reported last week.</p>
<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t even know what they&#8217;re talking about. Now, somebody could have written a letter and used my name. That&#8217;s happened a lot,&#8221; Trump said.</p>
<p>Trump has filed $10 billion defamation lawsuit against the Journal over the story.</p>
<p>Trump and Epstein socialized in the early 2000s, but Trump reportedly <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/510604-book-claims-trump-barred-epstein-from-mar-a-lago-after-financier-hit" target="_blank" rel="noopener">banned</a> Epstein from Mar-a-Lago in 2007 for harassing a club member’s teenage daughter. In 2020, Trump <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/510604-book-claims-trump-barred-epstein-from-mar-a-lago-after-financier-hit/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> he was “not a fan” of Epstein and “threw him out” of Mar-a-Lago, adding that they had not spoken in 15 years.</p>
<p>Bill Clinton allegedly wrote a birthday letter that complimented Epstein on his “childlike curiosity,” the Journal <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bill-clinton-commended-epstein-for-childlike-curiosity-in-unearthed-birthday-letter">reported</a> Thursday.</p>
<p>&#8220;You ought to be speaking about Bill Clinton, who went to the island 28 times. I never went to the island,&#8221; Trump told reporters Friday. &#8220;You should focus on the president of Harvard, the former president of Harvard. You should focus on some of the hedge fund guys. I&#8217;ll give you a list. These guys lived with Jeffrey Epstein. I sure as hell didn&#8217;t.&#8221;</p>
<p>Epstein was found dead at 66 in what was ruled a suicide in his Manhattan jail cell back in 2019. He was awaiting trial on federal sex trafficking charges after being <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/a-predator-prowling-the-streets-the-trial-of-ghislaine-maxwell" target="_blank" rel="noopener">accused</a> of sexually abusing dozens of underage girls, as well as procuring underage girls for prominent men on his private island in the Virgin Islands, Little St. James.</p>

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