Trump Doesn't Rule Out Ghislaine Maxwell Pardon

“It’s something I haven’t thought about it. I’m allowed to do it, but it’s something I have not thought about,” Trump told reporters when asked about a pardon or clemency for Maxwell.

“I certainly can’t talk about pardons,” he later added, while leaving the White House for a trip to Scotland.

“I don’t know about the meeting. I know it’s taking place, and he’s a fantastic man. He’s a great attorney,” Trump said of Blanche.

“And people should really focus on how well the country’s doing, or they should focus on the fact that Barack Hussein Obama led a coup, or they should focus on the fact that [former Treasury Secretary] Larry Summers from Harvard, that [former President] Bill Clinton, who you know very well, and lots of other friends, really close friends of Jeffrey [Epstein] should be spoken about.”

“They don’t talk about them, they talk about me. I have nothing to do with the guy,” he added.

“You should focus on Clinton … the former president of Harvard; you should focus on some of the hedge fund guys, I’ll give you a list. These guys lived with Jeffrey Epstein. I sure as hell didn’t,” he said.

The president said twice that he didn’t want to talk about a pardon for Maxwell. And, he insisted that he never went to Epstein’s private island. He then continued to name others he thinks were associated with Epstein.

“You ought to be speaking about Summers, you ought to be speaking about some of his friends that are hedge fund guys. They’re all over the place. You ought to be speaking to Bill Clinton who went to the island 28 times. I never went to the island,” Trump said.