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.

Reps. Thomas Massie and Ro Khanna, who are working together to push the Trump administration to release federal files related to Epstein, disagreed over whether Trump should pardon Epstein’s longtime associate Ghislaine Maxwell.

Ghislaine Maxwell’s interview with DOJ prosecutors has sparked questions about whether the Trump administration could leverage a pardon to get her to exonerate Trump.

Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie implored the Trump administration officials to do “whatever they need to do to compel” testimony from sex predator Jeffrey Epstein’s madam Ghislaine Maxwell, even if that means giving her some form of pardon.

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,

Political analyst Maggie Haberman on Friday evaluated the potential impact of President Trump possibly pardoning convicted sex offender Ghislaine Maxwell after she cooperated with the Justice Department (DOJ) during two days of interviews.

"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,