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."
The National Park Service and United States Park Police removed a statue that depicted President Trump cavorting with his former friend Jeffrey Epstein from the National Mall on Wednesday morning. The statue, the latest in a series of such displays placed on the Mall by a group of anonymous artists, received a permit from the National Park Service that allowed it to stay up until 8 PM on September 28.
The July 17 story about a note bearing Trump's signature that was sent to Epstein along with a sketch of a naked woman in 2003 is true and doesn't defame the president's character, lawyers for the 94-year-old News Corp. chairman emeritus said Monday in a request to dismiss the suit.
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Director Patel, I watched some of your Senate hearing yesterday when Senator Kennedy asked you, 'You've seen most of the files. Who, if anyone, did Epstein traffic these women to besides himself?' You replied, according to the transcript, 'There is no credible information that he trafficked them to anyone else.' He continued: You also said somewhere in the hearing and here today that the problem is that the case files are constrained by limited search warrants from 2006 to 2007.