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Oversight members split over whether to pardon Ghislaine Maxwell, committee chair says.
Politico ^ | 04/24/2026 | Hailey Fuchs

Posted on 04/23/2026 9:46:15 AM PDT by know.your.why

Members on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee are divided over whether President Donald Trump should pardon Jeffrey Epstein’s convicted co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell in exchange for her cooperation in the panel’s Epstein investigation, Chair James Comer said in an interview Wednesday.

Maxwell, who was deposed by the Oversight Committee as the sole convicted accomplice in the Epstein sex trafficking scheme, previously invoked her Fifth Amendment right in declining to answer the panel’s questions. Her lawyer has said that she would only speak if granted clemency — a power available solely to Trump, who has not ruled out the prospect of a pardon.

When asked whether he believed it was a favorable deal to issue a pardon in return for Maxwell’s testimony, Comer said, “A lot of people do.”

“My committee’s split on that,” he added, declining to name who on the panel supported granting a pardon. “I don’t speak for my committee.”

Comer himself wasn’t in favor.


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To: know.your.why

Maxwell the panderer might have rounded up a dozen.

Imagine:

Hi, Miss, my boyfriend would like some younger skirt.

....

Most of Epstein’s girls were referrals from other girls.

Almost all the now middle-aged women like to spend their big money from 15 minutes to a few hours of work and keep their past in the past.


21 posted on 04/23/2026 10:39:49 AM PDT by Brian Griffin (Ask your Congressman to tax tariff refunds at 100% & rebate ~$600 to each insured vehicle owner)
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To: Kleon
For who? There is no client list, and there never was.

And never will be. You can count on that.

22 posted on 04/23/2026 10:43:47 AM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: know.your.why

“Is my name REALLY in that book?”

vs

Re-election money


23 posted on 04/23/2026 10:46:59 AM PDT by If You Want It Fixed - Fix It
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This pedo and her pimp ,both of them get extraordinary lax deals, unheard of.

I hope she dies soon.

Meanwhile, for the Pedo Protectors out there, here’s Maxi !!!


24 posted on 04/23/2026 10:50:59 AM PDT by OldHarbor
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To: Kleon

You must have missed the part where she recruited the girls out of school in Palm Beach. I call that procuring. She did not need a client list, she had one, Epstein.

This resulted in the hundreds of “victims” now coalescing their plight with those who were minors IMO. I don’t know if Epstein came up with the idea of pedo island on his own or if some government agency came to him with a deal as long as he did their bidding. IMO, the sordid crime began with a sex pervert with money who had associates with more money.


25 posted on 04/23/2026 11:07:30 AM PDT by Mouton (There is a new sheriff and deputy in town now! )
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To: Kleon

How is it that some people still don’t understand this? She was charged with procuring underage women for Epstein to have sex with, and convicted of procuring underage women for Epstein to have sex with. Epstein was her client.

To be sure, there were certainly likely more clients than Epstein, but that is what she is in prison for.


26 posted on 04/23/2026 11:12:50 AM PDT by drjimmy
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To: Nateman
Give her clemency. Get her testimony and finish this.

There is no guarantee she would tell the whole truth. I fail to see the point of continuing this investigation, since the victims who sued him have been paid out of his estate. The congresspersons' main point in even looking into it was to "get Trump", but the disclosure of the records has not produced the smoking guns they were after.

So what is the point of wasting more taxpayer dollars on this disgusting information? Unless, of course, someone knows for sure that he is still alive, who is hiding him, and why.

27 posted on 04/23/2026 11:13:22 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (The first duty of the American government is to protect American citizens, not illegal aliens. --DJT)
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To: know.your.why

My opinion:

Keep her locked up until the day she dies. She’s a criminal and a perv pig. She doesn’t have to give names. Most of the perps are dead already. More important:

I ABSOLUTELY want to see the list of Congress critters who’ve used our tax money to pay off sexual abuse victims. Trump promised that in 2016.


28 posted on 04/23/2026 11:19:10 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam ( "Trouble knocked at the door, but, hearing laughter, hurried away". - B. Franklin)
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To: know.your.why

She would never be able to tell the truth, they’d have her suicided.


29 posted on 04/23/2026 11:37:39 AM PDT by lula (God is in control.)
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To: Kleon

“For who? There is no client list, and there never was.”

So you’re denying that she never recruited females for sexual favors even though there are numerous witness and victims.

“Between a federal indictment, a police investigation, civil lawsuits and public allegations, Epstein is accused of running an international sex trafficking ring that recruited more than 1,000 girls as young as 14 to have sex with him, his associate Ghislaine Maxwell and other men.”

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/11/20/epstein-1000-survivors-victims-not-politics/87335276007/

“In a 2016 deposition, Joseph Recarey, a police detective in Palm Beach, Florida, said that approximately 30 women had spoken to him about “performing massage and work at Epstein’s home” in the beachfront community. He said Maxwell was involved in recruiting the girls.”

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-67879225

If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, waddles like a duck, and enough people say it is a duck, why do you say it isn’t because a list of ducks with some different colored feathers isn’t in existence? She’s guilty as sin and the law. It falls under the Al Capone scenario:

He never killed anyone or had them killed and he went to jail only for tax evasion.

wy69


30 posted on 04/23/2026 11:46:26 AM PDT by whitney69 (uestiuetion and interpret the answer.)
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To: whitney69

“...recruited more than 1,000 girls as young as 14 to have sex with him, his associate Ghislaine Maxwell and other men.”

Hillary went to the island. And other women.


31 posted on 04/23/2026 12:02:16 PM PDT by JohnnyP (Thinking is hard work (I stole that from Rush).)
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To: Libloather
Re: "Meanwhile, Ghislaine is making small rocks out of big rocks for trafficking underage girls to no one in particular."

Incorrect.

Ghislaine Maxwell was convicted of Trafficking three under age girls to Jeffrey Epstein, her alleged employer.

All of the alleged trafficked girls were obviously well coached by their attorneys.

They all claimed they told Maxwell they were under age. They all claimed they told Maxwell they had been sexually abused as children. They all claimed they told Maxwell they had a chaotic home life.

Trafficking requires coercion. It is not clear how any of the accusers were coerced by Maxwell.

Also, Maxwell chose not to testify, which probably explains why she was convicted.

Jeffrey Epstein, on the other hand, was a legal expert on under age prostitutes.

Epstein would ask every girl if she was 18 years old. If they said no, he would not have sex with them.

If they lied and said they were 18, Epstein would pay them the market rate for massage sex, in cash, before any physical contact took place.

Sex with an under age prostitute who lied is still against the law, but the punishment is much less severe.

32 posted on 04/23/2026 12:44:29 PM PDT by zeestephen (Trump Landslide? Kamala lost the election by 230,000 votes, in WI, MI, and PA.)
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To: JohnnyP

“Hillary went to the island. And other women.”

Relevance please. I’m missing what you are trying to say here. Does it make any difference who the girls were recruited for? It just so happens that the witnesses that stepped forward were complaining about men. And there was most likely some for women as Maxwell was witnessed to have participated with them herself. But the law doesn’t differentiate about the participation of which sex?

wy69


33 posted on 04/23/2026 1:40:49 PM PDT by whitney69 (uestiuetion and interpret the answer.)
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To: whitney69

The witnesses didn’t complain when they were molested by women?


34 posted on 04/23/2026 3:48:28 PM PDT by JohnnyP (Thinking is hard work (I stole that from Rush).)
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To: JohnnyP

“The witnesses didn’t complain when they were molested by women?”

I didn’t see anything about that. The media just said men.

wy69


35 posted on 04/23/2026 9:37:15 PM PDT by whitney69 (uestiuetion and interpret the answer.)
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To: whitney69

Is it possible they were molested by HRC?


36 posted on 04/24/2026 1:34:16 AM PDT by JohnnyP (Thinking is hard work (I stole that from Rush).)
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To: know.your.why

If that ever got close to happening she’d “kill herself” too.


37 posted on 04/24/2026 3:05:41 AM PDT by jughandle
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To: know.your.why
Pardoning this pedophile enabler would be monumentally stupid, morally repugnant, and politically tone deaf.

In other words, it sounds like something Trump and the House Republicans may very likely end up doing.

At this point, it doesn't really make much difference anyway

38 posted on 04/24/2026 3:39:09 AM PDT by hcmama (Love that guy.)
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To: know.your.why
Four more of Epstein’s recruiters, all were granted immunity .

Maxwell deserves a rope around her neck

39 posted on 04/24/2026 3:52:38 AM PDT by OldHarbor
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To: JohnnyP

“Is it possible they were molested by HRC?”

She has explicitly denied long-standing rumors about her sexuality, stating in a 2019 interview with Howard Stern that she has never had a lesbian affair, was “never even tempted,” and likes men. These rumors have persisted for decades but have never been substantiated. But all things are possible.

https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/hillary-clinton-puts-lesbian-rumors-bed-never-even-been-tempted-n1096021

wy69


40 posted on 04/24/2026 4:31:41 AM PDT by whitney69 (uestiuetion and interpret the answer.)
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