US EditionMike Johnson Pushes Back on Trump's Ghislaine Maxwell Pardon Talk
- House Speaker Mike Johnson expressed strong reservations about granting a pardon to Ghislaine Maxwell amid increasing demands to release documents connected to Jeffrey Epstein in July 2025.
- This followed Sen. Dick Durbin's demand that transcripts and recordings of Justice Department interviews with Maxwell be released due to concerns over potential false testimony tied to clemency.
- Ghislaine Maxwell appealed to the Supreme Court to challenge her 2022 sex trafficking conviction, claiming that Jeffrey Epstein’s 2007 non-prosecution agreement granted her immunity.
- Johnson called Maxwell’s 20-year sentence a "pittance," expressed great pause about a pardon, and deferred the decision to President Trump who has not ruled it out.
- These developments highlight ongoing political tensions over Epstein-related transparency and clemency debates as the House remains on a July break delaying potential votes on releasing files.
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Ghislaine Maxwell, the long-time confidant of sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, is serving a 20-year sentence. Now her lawyers turn to the U.S. Supreme Court again.
U.S. President Donald Trump, in the affair surrounding the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, tells the Democrats that he is specifically linked to the investigation. The documents "have been led by the enemy." Meanwhile, Epstein's former girlfriend and accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell is again in the spotlight. She was most recently interrogated personally by Trump's Deputy Minister of Justice. She is said to have unpacked more than 100 people who had a…
The US president never wants to have been on the island of sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, whose confidant Ghislaine Maxwell turns to the Supreme Court again.
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