House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) said on Wednesday that President Donald Trump should not “even consider” pardoning Jeffrey Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell after Trump refused to rule out a pardon for the convicted sex trafficker.
“Ghislaine Maxwell’s attempt at an appeal has failed. Donald Trump was asked if he might pardon her. As you know, that’s a very contentious issue. He kind of batted it away and said, ‘We’ll take a look at it,’ which seemed to suggest the door may be open,” said Piers Morgan during an interview with Johnson on Piers Morgan Uncensored. “Would you want to see Ghislaine Maxwell pardoned or would you want the opposite?”
Johnson replied, “I would never even consider it. I mean, she’s a convicted human trafficker. She was a party to this, she set it up by her own admission, she was involved in all this. There’s no way she should ever leave prison.”
Asked on Monday whether Maxwell would “be a candidate for clemency,” Trump responded, “I don’t know… I’ll look at it. I have a lot of people have asked me for pardons. I call them— Puff Daddy has asked me for a pardon.”
After CNN’s Kaitlan Collins pointed out, “But she was convicted of child sex trafficking,” the president replied, “Yeah, I mean, I’m going to have to take a look at it. I have to ask DOJ. I didn’t know they rejected it. I didn’t know she was even asking for it, frankly.”
Sky Roberts, the brother of Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre – who took her own life earlier this year – called out Trump on MSNBC for refusing to rule out a pardon, calling his remarks “disgraceful” and “hurtful.”
“Why is this even a conversation? She’s a convicted– she was convicted of basically running a sex trafficking ring,” said Roberts. “My sister would be very hurt by it because we did believe based off of the campaign that he ran that he would do the right thing, and right now he seems to have amnesia, as does most of the campaign administrators or people that he appointed.”
Watch above via Piers Morgan Uncensored.
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