Rep. Jamie Raskin despatched a sharply worded six-page letter to President Donald Trump on Sunday following new data his committee obtained from a whistleblower alleging that Ghislaine Maxwell is getting ready a “commutation utility” for the Trump administration and receiving preferential therapy whereas incarcerated.
Raskin, the highest Democrat on the Home Judiciary Committee, accused the Trump administration of permitting “a corrupt misuse of law-enforcement sources” and demanded that Deputy U.S. Lawyer Common Todd Blanche testify earlier than the Judiciary Committee instantly to “reply for this corrupt misuse of regulation enforcement sources and potential trade of favors for false testimony exonerating you and different Epstein accomplices.”
White Home spokeswoman Abigail Jackson mentioned in a press release about Raskin’s letter: “The White Home doesn’t touch upon potential clemency requests. As President Trump has said, pardoning Ghislaine Maxwell shouldn’t be one thing he has considered.”
Requested in July a few doable pardon for Maxwell, Trump mentioned nobody had approached him, although he reiterated his energy to grant one.
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) addresses the gang at a Democratic “Folks’s City Corridor” in Bethlehem, PA on March 20, 2025.
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Democratic Rep. Robert Garcia, the rating member on the Home Oversight Committee who has led the minority on the panel’s Epstein investigation — launched a statement on Monday calling on Home Speaker Mike Johnson and Trump to “publicly oppose a commutation or pardon by President Trump” after the Judiciary Committee Democrats launched their whistleblower data.
Johnson has resisted calls to swear in Democratic Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva, who received a particular election in September to succeed her father Rep. Raul Grijalva, who died in March, and mentioned he would after the Home reconvenes following the Senate passing a authorities funding invoice.
The speaker despatched the Home dwelling after it handed the funding decision 4 days earlier than Grijalva’s election.
The speaker has denied that his determination is expounded to her intent to grow to be the 218th signature on a discharge petition forcing a vote to release the Department of Justice’s full Epstein file.
“It is a White Home cover-up, and Speaker Johnson is now complicit. Seat Adelita Grijalva, and launch the Epstein information, now,” Garcia mentioned.
Maxwell’s brother Ian Maxwell instructed ABC Information that he’s “unaware of any request or utility for both a commutation or pardon made to the second Trump administration both by my sister, any authorized consultant of hers or by the Maxwell household.”
Ian Maxwell mentioned that in any utility for a pardon or commutation, a prisoner should present they’ve exhausted all avenues for attraction and that his sister is “working diligently” on an attraction to be filed “as quickly as practicable.”
Ian Maxwell mentioned new proof will present “unequivocally that important authorities — and juror — misconduct occurred pre-, throughout and post-trial.”
He mentioned the allegations in Raskin’s letter “appears to be like like mischief-making to me, primarily within the pursuit of a political agenda looking for to embarrass the President and the administration.”
Raskin’s letter is a follow-up to an August 12 letter he and different Democrats despatched to the Division of Justice and the Bureau of Prisons about Maxwell’s transfer to Federal Jail Camp Bryan, a minimum-security facility that he mentioned was an “obvious flagrant violation of BOP insurance policies, together with one which explicitly prohibits the location of intercourse offenders in such amenities.”
Maxwell is serving a 20-year jail sentence for little one intercourse trafficking and different offenses in reference to Jeffrey Epstein, the previous financier and convicted intercourse offender who died by suicide in jail in 2019.
FCI Tallahassee in Florida, the place Maxwell had been held, is a “low safety” jail for women and men, whereas FPC Bryan is a “minimal safety” camp only for girls.
The switch adopted Maxwell’s two-day meeting in July with Blanche in Tallahassee, the place her lawyer mentioned the 2 mentioned “about 100 names” related to Epstein, after the Trump administration promised to launch extra details about the deceased intercourse offender.
ABC Information James Hill contributed to this report.
