U.S. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson said that he would have "great pause" if President Donald Trump pardoned Ghislaine Maxwell, but deferred to Trump.

We hope he exercises that power in the right and just way." Trump has the power to pardon Maxwell fully as well as to commute her prison sentence. But to many, that might look more like reducing than enhancing accountability – especially if Maxwell ...

President Trump is struggling to escape the controversy around Jeffrey Epstein and convicted Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell, even when he’s abroad in the United Kingdom this weekend. WIRED Senior Writer Jake Lahut,

"She probably wants a pardon from Donald Trump, and so her meeting with Trump's Department of Justice cannot be trusted, and anything she says must be corroborated with documents and records from the actual Epstein files,