"Ghislaine Maxwell, the former girlfriend of Jeffrey Epstein, declined to answer questions from House lawmakers in a deposition Monday, but indicated that if President Donald Trump ended her prison sentence, she was willing to testify that neither he nor former President Bill Clinton had done anything wrong in their connections with Epstein."
"Amid a reckoning over Epstein's abuse that has spilled into the highest levels of businesses and governments around the globe, lawmakers are searching for anyone who was connected to Epstein and may have facilitated his abuse. So far, the revelations have shown how both Trump and Clinton spent time with Epstein in the 1990s and early 2000s, but they have not been credibly accused of wrongdoing."
"During the closed-door deposition Monday, Maxwell's attorney David Oscar Markus said in a statement to the committee that "Maxwell is prepared to speak fully and honestly if granted clemency by President Trump." He added that both Trump and Clinton "are innocent of any wrongdoing," but that "Ms. Maxwell alone can explain why, and the public is entitled to that explanation.""
Ghislaine Maxwell declined to answer questions from House lawmakers during a deposition, invoking her Fifth Amendment rights to avoid self-incrimination. The House Oversight Committee had sought to question her via video call to the federal prison camp in Texas where she is serving a 20-year sentence for sex trafficking. Maxwell indicated she would speak fully and honestly if granted clemency by President Trump, and her attorney asserted that both Trump and Bill Clinton are innocent of wrongdoing. Lawmakers continue to investigate Epstein’s network and connections, searching for anyone who may have facilitated his abuse, while public scrutiny of associates persists.
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