After the US Supreme Court rejected an appeal from Jeffrey Epstein’s right-hand woman, Ghislaine Maxwell, US President Donald Trump told a reporter he would “take a look at it”.
Lawyers for convicted British socialite Maxwell argued that she should never have been tried or convicted for her role in luring teenage girls to be s£xually abused by Epstein, a New York financier. Her appeal was rejected.
She is serving a 20-year prison term, but was moved from a low-security federal prison in Florida to a minimum-security prison camp in Texas after she was interviewed by Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche in July.
When asked by reporters in the White House about Maxwell’s appeal and a potential pardon, Trump replied: “I haven’t heard the name in so long. I can say this – I’d have to take a look at it… I will speak to the Department of Justice.
“I wouldn’t consider it or not consider it, I don’t know anything about it.
“I have a lot of people who have asked me for pardons… I didn’t know she was even asking for it, frankly.”