Epstein files latest: Maxwell may avoid subpoena as Trump says he hasn’t thought about pardoning her
A lawyer for Ghislaine Maxwell, the accomplice of the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, says his client is unsure whether she’ll comply with a congressional subpoena to testify about his abuse of girls and whether others were involved.
“We have to make a decision about whether she will do that or not,” her attorney David Oscar Markus told Politico. “That’s been scheduled for the week of August 11th and we haven’t gotten back to them on whether we’ll do that.”
The lawyer’s comments came after he and Maxwell met with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche in Tallahassee, where she’s serving 20 years behind bars for her role in Epstein’s scheme to sexually exploit girls, to discuss the Epstein case that has rattled the Trump administration for weeks. Maxwell had initiated the meetings and was granted a form of limited immunity to talk to the Justice Department, ABC News reported.
Upon arriving in Scotland for a golfing trip, the president said: “A lot of people asking me about pardons … this is no time to be talking about pardons.”
The president, who has never been accused of wrongdoing in the Epstein case, has tried to distance himself from his former friend.
House Democrats are now trying to get the so-called “birthday book” that has been at the center of recent fallout. In a letter to Epstein’s estate, they asked for a “complete, unredacted copy” of the book by August 10. The Wall Street Journal first detailed a reported Trump letter in the book. Trump has sued the outlet for $10 billion over the report.
