https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-house-oversight-chair-says-some-panel-members-open-ghislaine-maxwell-pardon-2026-04-22/WASHINGTON, April 22 (Reuters) - Some members of the U.S. House Oversight Committee are open to the possibility of a presidential pardon for Ghislaine Maxwell if it would enable her to share information with the panel for its probe into Jeffrey Epstein, committee chairman James Comer told Politico on Wednesday.Maxwell, 64, was invited to testify before the committee but refused to answer any substantive questions in February, invoking her Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination.Maxwell was an associate of Epstein, the disgraced financier and convicted sex offender whose death in custody in 2019 was ruled a suicide. She was found guilty in 2021 for her role in helping Epstein sexually abuse teenage girls and is currently serving a 20-year prison sentence.Comer, a Republican, said committee members were divided on whether Maxwell should receive a pardon, which can only be conferred by President Donald Trump.Trump left the door open in October to possibly pardoning Maxwell, saying he would speak to the U.S. Justice Department. The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.U.S. Representative Robert Garcia, the top Democrat on the committee, later wrote on X: "@OversightDems are united in opposing a pardon for Ghislaine Maxwell. It’s outrageous that any Republicans on our committee would consider this."Comer said he remains opposed to the idea.The lack of agreement reduces the likelihood of a pardon-for-testimony deal.
>>1508416You know what she will say if she gets that pardon, right? "I did it, it was all me and only for myself and Jeffrey, no one else was involved, I'm every mysterious person on the other end of every deal you know about."
>>1508463On the other hand if dRumpf pardons her so information can be shared, he'll be smeared.However, now if her doesn't pardon her, he'll be withholding a pardon to withhold information.So, someone out there with media ties really wants her pardoned.
Why would republicans want to pardon Maxwell, unless she's blackmailing them.
>>1508416Republicans salivate at freeing the only person prosecuted in a global pedophile ring
>>1508471>Maxwell, 64, was invited to testify before the committee but refused to answer any substantive questions in February, invoking her Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination.Did you not read the first post of the thread?>Maxwell, 64, was invited to testify before the committee but refused to answer any substantive questions in February, invoking her Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination.
>>1508470I'm saying that she'll just implicate herself alone for everything unless the pardon is specifically contingent on her ratting out a certain number of other people. It's happened before, there was some military guy who executed prisoners and they gave a blanket pardon to another officer in exchange for testimony and he said it was all himself, he decided to do it alone and pulled the trigger all by himself. The prosecutors seethed, but they had given him a blanket pardon and couldn't prove beyond a reasonable doubt that he was lying.
>>1508474>Maxwell invokes the 5th amendment so we should pardon herI mean, worked with trump and all his crimes.
>>1508416Republicans so desperate to pardon pedophile. The “fucking kids” party is mask off now. Trump is the pedophile king
>>1508596What evidence do you have that Donald Trump is a pedophile?
>>1508622Why don’t they release the Epstein files?
>>1508628They did though.
>>1508622Do you not consider raping kids to be evidence of pedophilia?
>>1508628They did. They've released millions of Epstein documents. There are no emails or communication between Jeffrey Epstein or Donald Trump. >>1508630I didn't see any evidence of trump raping kids
>>1508416Trump's own DOJ found Maxwell willing to lie under oath in order to save her own skin back in 2020.>Moreover, the defendant’s willingness to brazenly lie under oath about her conduct, including some of the conduct charged in the Indictment, strongly suggests her true motive has been and remains to avoid being held accountable for her crimes, rather than to avoid the media. As alleged in the Indictment, in 2016, when the defendant was given the opportunity to address her conduct with minors in the context of a civil suit, she lied repeatedly. Those lies are, of course, the subject of two counts of perjury, and they evidence her willingness to flout the law in order to protect herself. The defendant’s lies under oath should give the Court serious pause about trusting this defendant to comply with conditions of bail.Source, relevant text on page 10: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/17318376/22/united-states-v-maxwell/So Republicans want to release the only child predator associated with Epstein currently facing any consequences for their actions in exchange for her testimony, knowing full well she's willing to lie under oath."Say Trump did nothing wrong and we'll let you back on the street to rape more children."
>>1508635There's no reason to pardon her. Retarded boomers think pardoning her will give concrete evidence, but she's only going to lie and there's nothing she can say that isn't already in the files. The only reason they would want to pardon her is mossad paying her back for her loyal to Israel
>>1508633>I didn't see any evidence of trump raping kidsSo the only way you'd believe Trump is a pedophile is if you were given CP to watch?
>>1508471Democracy doesn't work unless you blindly follow orders from your dear leader
>>1508636Getting her to say on camera and "under oath", regardless of her willingness to commit perjury and previous crimes, that Trump, Lutnick, and anyone else associated with the administration did nothing wrong is all Republicans care about. If they can get that soundbite before midterms they'll let her back on the streets and even throw her a few 12 year olds to start over with.
>>1508471For the same reason you would pardon Hunter Biden even though he did nothing wrong and you promised you wouldn't
>>1508638What evidence convinced you that Trump is raping kids?Were you given CP to watch?
>>1508647So you're claiming maxwell is going to be a victim of lawfare?Way to confirm the republicans are protecting pedos.
>>1508641To be fair there's zero evidence of Trump participating in Epstein's behavior.Additionally Trump's DOJ finally took action against him.The coverup is Democrats using Epstein to attack Trump.
>>1508653So why are Republicans willing to let a convicted child sex predator with a history of lying in court back on the street in exchange for testimony? This is of course while the acting AG and Trump's former personal attorney, the man who made the deal to get Maxwell to the cushy Club Fed she's currently vacationing in, has said he's not going to release any more files related to the case and is done investigating it.
Who is pushing this Maxwell pardon angle? Sounds like some shit that was made up because the news cycle was empty.
>>1508662>Some members of the U.S. House Oversight Committee are open to the possibility of a presidential pardon for Ghislaine Maxwell if it would enable her to share information with the panel for its probe into Jeffrey Epstein, committee chairman James Comer told Politico on Wednesday. Literally the first line of the article dipshit
>>1508663Russians always have trouble spelling and reading English, because of their Cyrillic alphabet. tRump has already promised her a pardon in his last year of office. One of the few promises he will go through with, as he can be tried in a civil court after he leaves
>>1508661Isn't that literally what Joe Biden did during his presidency with Ghislaine Maxwell?Merrick Garland didn't release any of the Epstein files because he was actively trying to make a deal with Ghislaine Maxwell. But he never ended up making a deal so sealing the Epstein files was pointless.
>>1508629>>1508633They did not. They released some, which were heavily redacted. This is illegal.
