The Epstein emails are only going to put more pressure on Donald Trump as he decides whether to commute Ghislaine Maxwell’s sentence.
President Donald Trump’s Jeffrey Epstein problem has come roaring back. On Wednesday, Democrats on the House Oversight Committee released a new set of emails obtained from the Epstein estate. In one of the emails, the late convicted sex offender wrote to confidante and convicted child sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell that Trump had “spent hours” at Epstein’s house with one of his victims.
Even before the latest email releases — which the White House denounced as “selectively released“ to “smear” the president — Trump faced additional thorny problems tied to Maxwell and Epstein. New reports of Maxwell’s relaxed prison conditions raise even more questions of a potential quid pro quo with the Trump administration. And to top everything off, Maxwell wants the president to commute her sentence.This alleged special treatment only raises more questions about how Maxwell has been able to secure it — and whether she’s expected to offer anything in return.
In July, the House Oversight Committee voted to subpoena Maxwell, who is serving a 20-year sentence for helping Epstein prey sexually on children and young women, for a deposition. Just days later, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche swooped in to interview Maxwell in prison over the course of two days.
Maxwell said in her interview with Blanche that she never saw Trump behave inappropriately.
