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(The Hill) - President Donald Trump told reporters Friday helium hasn’t thought astir pardoning Ghislaine Maxwell, arsenic the longtime Jeffrey Epstein subordinate was set to meet for a 2nd time with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche.
“It’s thing I haven’t thought astir it. I’m allowed to bash it, but it’s thing I person not thought about,” Trump told reporters erstwhile asked astir a pardon oregon clemency for Maxwell.
“I surely can’t speech astir pardons,” helium aboriginal added, portion leaving the White House for a travel to Scotland.
When questioned connected the Maxwell-Blanche meeting, Trump told reporters they should beryllium focused connected different Epstein associates and different topics, including the merchandise of documents related to erstwhile President Obama and the probe into Russia’s efforts to power the 2016 election.
“I don’t cognize astir the meeting. I cognize it's taking place, and he’s a fantastic man. He’s a large attorney," Trump said of Blanche.
"And radical should truly absorption connected however good the country’s doing, oregon they should absorption connected the information that Barack Hussein Obama led a coup, oregon they should absorption connected the information that [former Treasury Secretary] Larry Summers from Harvard, that [former President] Bill Clinton, who you cognize precise well, and tons of different friends, truly adjacent friends of Jeffrey [Epstein] should beryllium spoken about."
“They don’t speech astir them, they speech astir me. I person thing to bash with the guy,” helium added.
Trump aboriginal suggested helium has a database of radical who were associated with Epstein, different than him, that helium could springiness to the media.
“You should absorption connected Clinton … the erstwhile president of Harvard; you should absorption connected immoderate of the hedge money guys, I’ll springiness you a list. These guys lived with Jeffrey Epstein. I definite arsenic hellhole didn’t,” helium said.
The president said doubly that helium didn’t privation to speech astir a pardon for Maxwell. And, helium insisted that helium ne'er went to Epstein's backstage island. He past continued to sanction others helium thinks were associated with Epstein.
“You ought to beryllium speaking astir Summers, you ought to beryllium speaking astir immoderate of his friends that are hedge money guys. They’re each implicit the place. You ought to beryllium speaking to Bill Clinton who went to the land 28 times. I ne'er went to the island,” Trump said.
The Trump medication is facing expanding unit to merchandise much accusation from the Epstein files aft the Justice Department earlier this month released a memo concluding Epstein died by termination and did not support a lawsuit list. Attorney General Pam Bondi had antecedently said specified files were connected her desk.
The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday that Bondi told Trump successful May that his sanction appeared aggregate times successful files related to Epstein.
The memo led to monolithic outrage from wrong the Republican Party. While the White House has tried to determination connected and distract from it and Republican leaders have tried to incorporate furor among GOP lawmakers, calls for the merchandise of much Epstein-related materials person lone grown.
Following Blanche’s travel to Tallahassee, Fla., to conscionable with Maxwell connected Thursday, an attorney for Maxwell said she had a “very productive” gathering and that she “answered each azygous question.”
Maxwell was convicted of enactment trafficking successful transportation with Epstein successful 2021 and is serving a 20-year situation sentence. She is presently appealing her condemnation to the Supreme Court. Epstein died successful jailhouse awaiting proceedings connected related charges successful 2019.
