Lawrence O'Donnell Makes Chilling Prediction On Trump And Ghislaine Maxwell

MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell is predicting a pardon for convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell, whose accomplice Jeffrey Epstein died in prison while awaiting trial — as long as she exonerates President Donald Trump from any potential involvement in their crimes.

Trump has been shown in footage and photos from the 1990s and early 2000s socializing with Maxwell and Epstein, whose ties to powerful figures, along with Epstein’s apparent jailhouse suicide in 2019, fueled enduring rumors of a “client list” U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi suggested she was reviewing earlier this year.

“We’ve all seen the photographs of Donald Trump hanging out with Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein during the Epstein and Maxwell reign of terror against more than a thousand children,” O’Donnell said during Monday’s edition of “The Last Word.”

Trump has openly dismissed public demands for any remaining Justice Department files on Epstein to be shared. But amid mounting backlash over this scandal, the administration now appears to be considering a deal with Maxwell.

U.S. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche visited Maxwell last month, only for Trump to claim he wasn’t aware of the meeting. Last week, the Bureau of Prisons transferred Maxwell from a low-security federal prison in Florida to a minimum-security facility in Texas.

“Donald Trump just now has no idea why his former criminal defense lawyer … became the very first deputy attorney general in history to go to a prison to interview a convicted sex trafficker who the president of the United States personally wishes well,” said O’Donnell.

Trump did indeed “wish her well” when asked in 2020 about Maxwell’s then-recent arrest.

O’Donnell noted that Trump is now in a position to make his own well-wishes come true, as he personally has the ability to free Maxwell — who was convicted of trafficking and recruiting children for sexual abuse by Epstein, but is suspected of having had far more clients — before her 20-year sentence is up.

O’Donnell argued that a pardon for Maxwell could be damaging to Republicans, however, so Trump would have to time it strategically.

“If Donald Trump lets Ghislaine Maxwell out of prison on his last day in office in exchange for her publicly insisting that she and Jeffrey Epstein were never really friends with Donald Trump and that Donald Trump knew nothing about anything illegal that they ever did, well, the last day of the presidency would be the time for him to do that,” he said.

“And then Donald Trump’s wishing her well will really and fully come true,” he concluded.

Federal prosecutors said that Maxwell and Epstein were “predators together” and “molested kids together,” O’Donnell reminded viewers, since some pro-Trump voices are already suggesting that a pardon would be justified if she helps authorities identify other potential accomplices or clients.

O’Donnell also reiterated how curious it is that Maxwell, who “personally molested children,” was moved to a “much more pleasant facility” after speaking with Trump’s lawyer. Her sentencing rules do not even allow her to serve time there, he said, so “someone had to wish really hard” for that to happen.

“So she’s now guaranteed a very easy time in federal custody for the remainder of the Trump presidency,” he added. “And then, on the last day of the Trump presidency, Ghislaine Maxwell could walk free in exchange for never saying anything negative about Donald Trump.”

Watch the full monologue below:

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