MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell is predicting a pardon for convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell, whose accomplice Jeffrey Epstein died in prison while awaiting trial — as long as she exonerates President Donald Trump from any potential involvement in their crimes.
Trump has been shown in footage and photos from the 1990s and early 2000s socializing with Maxwell and Epstein, whose ties to powerful figures, along with Epstein’s apparent jailhouse suicide in 2019, fueled enduring rumors of a “client list” U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi suggested she was reviewing earlier this year.
“We’ve all seen the photographs of Donald Trump hanging out with Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein during the Epstein and Maxwell reign of terror against more than a thousand children,” O’Donnell said during Monday’s edition of “The Last Word.”
Trump has openly dismissed public demands for any remaining Justice Department files on Epstein to be shared. But amid mounting backlash over this scandal, the administration now appears to be considering a deal with Maxwell.
U.S. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche visited Maxwell last month, only for Trump to claim he wasn’t aware of the meeting. Last week, the Bureau of Prisons transferred Maxwell from a low-security federal prison in Florida to a minimum-security facility in Texas.
