Push in Congress for Ghislaine Maxwell to be pardoned

“A lot of people do that,” Comer said Politics.

‘My committee is divided on this. I don’t speak on behalf of my committee.’

He pointed out that he was not in favor of a pardon.

Comer’s Democratic counterpart Robert Garcia issued a statement decrying the idea.

“It is outrageous that Republicans on the Oversight Committee are considering a pardon for Ghislaine Maxwell,” he said.

“She is a sexual abuser who enabled the rape of women and children.

He said a pardon would be a “shameful way to treat survivors.”

“Oversight Democrats are united in their opposition to any form of pardon,” he said.

Maxwell declined to testify during her February deposition.

Garcia pointed out in his statement that after speaking with Donald Trump’s former personal attorney, now acting attorney general, Maxwell was transferred to a “lenient, minimum security women’s prison.”

Her lawyer has stated that Maxwell will testify if she is granted clemency by Trump.

Maxwell and Trump were old friends.

She is currently serving a 20-year prison sentence for sex trafficking and conspiring with Epstein to abuse underage girls.

Republican Rep. Anna Paulina Luna dismissed the prospect of Maxwell getting out of prison.

“She won’t be pardoned,” she said.

“That’s not what the votes are for.”

But a vote in Congress would ultimately be meaningless on the issue. Congress does not have the power to grant pardons.

The role rests solely in the hands of the president, who has the power to pardon anyone convicted of a federal crime at will.

If he did, there would be no way for Congress to stop him.

The Trump administration has come under fire after releasing only a fraction of the files related to the Justice Department’s investigation into Epstein.

According to a previously passed law, they are obliged to release every file

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