"Donald Trump went with a different tactic on Monday. During an Oval Office press conference, CNN's Kaitlan Collins asked the president if he'd consider pardoning Ghislane Maxwell, now that the Supreme Court has declined to review the 2021 conviction of Jeffrey Epstein's accomplice. "I haven't heard the name in so long," he said. "I can say this, I'd have to take a look at it.""
"Trump suggested he was totally ignorant of Maxwell's appeal, asking Collins for details. "Well, I'll take a look at it," he repeated. "I will speak to the DOJ. I wouldn't consider it or not consider it. I don't know anything about it, but I'll speak to the DOJ." Then Trump tried to deflect by noting that Sean Combs - another old pal recently convicted of sex-related offenses - already asked him for a pardon."
""I have a lot of people that have asked me for pardons. Uh, I call him 'Puff Daddy.' He's asked me for a pardon," he said. Trump was trying to merely play dumb, but he's actually an idiot if he thought this strategy would work. He said he hadn't heard Maxwell's name "in so long" like he was struggling to remember someone he'd crossed paths with a few times in the '90s. There are plenty of photos of Trump partying with Maxwell, but we don't even have to go back that far."
Donald Trump responded to a question about pardoning Ghislaine Maxwell during an Oval Office press conference by saying he had not heard her name in a long time and that he would have to take a look. He said he would speak to the Department of Justice and that he neither would nor would not consider a pardon because he claimed not to know details. He referenced other pardon requests, noting Sean Combs had asked for one. He previously said he wished Maxwell well after her 2020 arrest. Maxwell remains tied to the Jeffrey Epstein scandal and recent oversight disclosures involving a poem image.
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