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.

House Speaker Mike Johnson rejects pardoning Ghislaine Maxwell, stating she deserves life in prison for her role in Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking crimes.

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.

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,

"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,