{"id":180021,"date":"2025-07-11T13:22:37","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T13:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/11\/donald-trump-considered-pardon-for-ghislaine-maxwell-journalist-claims\/"},"modified":"2025-07-11T13:22:37","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T13:22:37","slug":"donald-trump-considered-pardon-for-ghislaine-maxwell-journalist-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/11\/donald-trump-considered-pardon-for-ghislaine-maxwell-journalist-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump Considered Pardon For Ghislaine Maxwell, Journalist Claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 3<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, an FBI and DOJ memo revealed that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehollywoodgossip.com\/2025\/07\/elon-musk-blasts-epstein-files-memo-what-is-ghislaine-maxwell-in-prison-for\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Trump administration has no plans to release the so-called \u201cEpstein files\u201d<\/a> and no reason to doubt that Jeffrey Epstein committed suicide.<\/p>\n<p>The news came as a shock to many, including Elon Musk, who blasted the Trump administration and demanded to know why Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell is in prison for sex trafficking if there\u2019s no list of clients.<\/p>\n<p>And it seems Musk is not the only one who\u2019s asking that question, as TMZ reports that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2025\/07\/10\/ghislaine-maxwell-hoping-for-trump-pardon-doj-epstein-client-list\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Maxwell is now hoping for a presidential pardon<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><noscript><\/noscript><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-181355204-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Ghislaine Maxwell attends day 1 of the 4th Annual WIE Symposium at Center 548 on September 20, 2013 in New York City. \" class=\"wp-image-529796 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-181355204-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-181355204-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-181355204-768x1151.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-181355204-1366x2048.jpg 1366w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-181355204-640x960.jpg 640w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-181355204-720x1080.jpg 720w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-181355204-800x1200.jpg 800w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-181355204-scaled.jpg 1708w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 760px) calc(100vw - 20px), 720px\" data-pin-media=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-181355204-scaled.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" data-trellis-processed=\"1\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Ghislaine Maxwell attends day 1 of the 4th Annual WIE Symposium at Center 548 on September 20, 2013 in New York City. <span class=\"image-caption-credit\"> (Photo by Laura Cavanaugh\/Getty Images)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The report adds that the Trump administration is not considering a pardon for Maxwell at present.<\/p>\n<p>But in a new interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/donald-trump-held-talks-on-pardon-for-jeffrey-epstein-associate-ghislaine-maxwell-biographer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Daily Beast<\/a>, journalist and Trump biographer Michael Wolff claims that a pardon was very seriously considered at one point.<\/p>\n<p>Wolff claims that Trump, a former associate of Epstein\u2019s, was concerned about what sort of information would be revealed during Maxwell\u2019s trial after she was arrested by the FBI in July 2020.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat could she say \u2014 what would she say?\u201d Wolff imagines Trump thinking.<\/p>\n<p>He went on to describe Trump and Epstein as \u201ctwo guys joined at the hip for a good 15 years,\u201d adding:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2224318160-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"U.S. President Donald Trump answers questions during a multilateral lunch with African leaders in the State Dining Room of the White House July 9, 2025 in Washington, DC. The leaders of Gabon, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mauritania and Senegal met with Trump during the luncheon. \" class=\"wp-image-529798\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2224318160-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2224318160-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2224318160-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2224318160-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2224318160-960x640.jpg 960w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2224318160-1080x720.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2224318160-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 760px) calc(100vw - 20px), 720px\"\/><\/noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2224318160-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"U.S. President Donald Trump answers questions during a multilateral lunch with African leaders in the State Dining Room of the White House July 9, 2025 in Washington, DC. The leaders of Gabon, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mauritania and Senegal met with Trump during the luncheon. \" class=\"wp-image-529798 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2224318160-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2224318160-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2224318160-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2224318160-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2224318160-960x640.jpg 960w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2224318160-1080x720.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2224318160-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 760px) calc(100vw - 20px), 720px\" data-pin-media=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2224318160-scaled.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" data-trellis-processed=\"1\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">U.S. President Donald Trump answers questions during a multilateral lunch with African leaders in the State Dining Room of the White House July 9, 2025 in Washington, DC. The leaders of Gabon, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mauritania and Senegal met with Trump during the luncheon. <span class=\"image-caption-credit\"> (Photo by Win McNamee\/Getty Images)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThey did everything together. And this is from sharing, pursuing women, hunting women, sharing at least one girlfriend for at least a year, and this kind of rich-guy relationship with each other\u2019s planes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added, \u201cI dare say they kind of loved each other. These [sic] were brothers in arms for a long time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wolff claims that Trump\u2019s team discouraged him from pardoning Maxwell ahead of or during her trial.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverybody around him was kind of like, \u2018God, we hope she won\u2019t say anything, but we really hope he doesn\u2019t pardon her,\u2019\u201d the journalist tells The Daily Beast.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"691\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2222470829-1024x691.jpg\" alt=\"U.S. President Donald Trump answers questions during a press conference on recent Supreme Court rulings in the briefing room at the White House on June 27, 2025 in Washington, DC.\" class=\"wp-image-529797\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2222470829-1024x691.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2222470829-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2222470829-768x518.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2222470829-2048x1382.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2222470829-960x648.jpg 960w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2222470829-1080x729.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2222470829-1200x810.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 760px) calc(100vw - 20px), 720px\"\/><\/noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"691\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2222470829-1024x691.jpg\" alt=\"U.S. President Donald Trump answers questions during a press conference on recent Supreme Court rulings in the briefing room at the White House on June 27, 2025 in Washington, DC.\" class=\"wp-image-529797 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2222470829-1024x691.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2222470829-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2222470829-768x518.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2222470829-2048x1382.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2222470829-960x648.jpg 960w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2222470829-1080x729.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2222470829-1200x810.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 760px) calc(100vw - 20px), 720px\" data-pin-media=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2222470829-scaled.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" data-trellis-processed=\"1\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">U.S. President Donald Trump answers questions during a press conference on recent Supreme Court rulings in the briefing room at the White House on June 27, 2025 in Washington, DC.<span class=\"image-caption-credit\"> (Photo by Joe Raedle\/Getty Images)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Asked for his comments on Maxwell ahead of the trial, Trump surprised many by expressing sympathy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just wish her well, frankly. I\u2019ve met her numerous times over the years, especially since I lived in Palm Beach, and I guess they lived in Palm Beach,\u201d Trump told reporters, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/508413-trump-on-ghislaine-maxwell-i-wish-her-well\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Hill<\/a>. \u201cI wish her well, whatever it is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reached by The Daily Beast for comment on these allegations, Trump communications director Steven Cheung had this to say:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMichael Wolff is a lying sack of s\u2013t and has been proven to be a fraud. He routinely fabricates stories originating from his sick and warped imagination, only possible because he has a severe and debilitating case of Trump Derangement Syndrome that has rotted his peanut-sized brain.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehollywoodgossip.com\/2025\/07\/donald-trump-considered-pardon-for-ghislaine-maxwell-journalist-claims\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading Time: 3 minutes Earlier this week, an FBI and DOJ memo revealed that the Trump administration has no plans to release the so-called \u201cEpstein files\u201d and no reason to doubt that Jeffrey Epstein committed suicide. The news came as a shock to many, including Elon Musk, who blasted the Trump administration and demanded to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":180022,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-180021","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hollywood"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}