Elie Honig on Maxwell’s Clemency Request: ‘I Want a Pardon and in Exchange, I Will Give You Exonerating Testimony’

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HONIG: “It‘s right there on the face of it, Jake. It doesn‘t get any clearer than that. The proposal is written out. This for that. I want a pardon, and in exchange, I will give you exonerating testimony. But the fundamental problem with this offer, Jake, is even if Ghislaine Maxwell and Donald Trump reached this agreement, who on this earth would actually believe Ghislaine Maxwell‘s testimony? We‘re talking about a convicted child sex trafficker. We‘re talking about somebody who is openly begging for a pardon. We‘re talking about a person in Ghislaine Maxwell who spent nine hours face to face with the deputy attorney general of the United States and gave an utterly preposterous, unbelievable account where she said she had done nothing wrong, nobody else had done anything wrong. Maybe Jeffrey Epstein committed a crime, she said, but she‘s not sure. If you believe that, I don‘t know what to tell you. So, even if this deal were somehow to come to fruition, I don‘t think it would convince a soul.”