Supreme Court to Review Ghislaine Maxwell Appeal

However, the administration faced intense blowback from MAGA supporters who felt Trump appointees, including Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel, were reneging on promises to unveil revelatory information about Epstein's case.

Trump, who was among the many prominent figures who once socialized with Epstein, said the topic was "sordid" but "boring" and dismissed questions about it. However, in the face of building pressure, the president demanded the DOJ take more action to release files.

Maxwell's attorney, David Markus, told reporters after the meeting that it marked the "first opportunity she's ever been given to answer questions about what happened." She answered questions about "maybe about a hundred different people, and she didn't hold anything back," Markus said. He said they had not "yet" approached Trump about clemency. The president recently said, when asked by a reporter about the matter, that he is "allowed" to give Maxwell a pardon but that he had not considered it at this stage.

Maxwell's attorney responded by saying she would need full immunity to testify and that she wanted to wait until after the Supreme Court responded to her petition.