Vanity Fair
The Monday ruling immediately raises the prospect that Maxwell’s last foreseeable chance at freedom—at 63, she is currently serving a 20-year prison sentence—lies in her long, much-scrutinized relationship with the president. Before Maxwell and Trump traveled in overlapping New York and Palm Beach social circles in the ’90s, her father, the media mogul Robert Maxwell, hosted Trump on his yacht, then called the Lady Ghislaine, after attempting to buy the New York Post.
“I just wish her well, frankly,” Trump said after Ghislaine Maxwell was indicted in 2020.
From wishing her well to who’s that?
Yesterday the Supreme Court in the US denies Ghislaine Maxwell’s Epstein Related Appeal
Looks like Ghislaine Maxwell just ran out of lifelines courtesy of the highest court in the land. On the first Monday back in session, the U.S. Supreme Court briskly tossed out Maxwell’s final Hail Mary appeal to overturn her conviction for conspiring with Jeffrey Epstein to sexually exploit underage girls. That’s right: no hearing, no explanation, no retrial.
The message? “You’re staying right where you are, ma’am.”
Not so fast! Trump might consider a pardon. If he can just recall who she is?
President Donald Trump was asked whether he would consider pardoning convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell—whose appeal to overturn her conviction was rejected by the Supreme Court.
“Who are we talking about?” Trump asked CNN’s Kaitlan Collins, who had posed the question.
“Ghislaine Maxwell,” Collins replied.
“You know, I haven’t heard the name in so long. I can say this, that I’d have to take a look at it. I would have to take a look,” Trump said
I find it not credible that Trump has forgotten about Ms Maxwell. Their friendship is decades long. And he sent his former personal attorney to question her
Todd Blanche, a former personal lawyer for President Trump, is now the No. 2 official at the Department of Justice and is handling the Epstein matter. His involvement raises unusual questions.