Overview

• At a White House press conference, President Trump said he would have to look at a potential federal pardon for Ghislaine Maxwell and said he would speak with the Justice Department.
• Laura Loomer posted on X warning against any push for clemency, writing, "Do not do it" and cautioning there would be "no coming back from that," while tagging Trump, JD Vance, and Pam Bondi.
• Loomer later said a high-level White House source told her Trump has no plans to pardon Maxwell and that he has not been personally asked to do so.
• The U.S. Supreme Court rejected Maxwell’s bid to have her case heard, and her attorneys said they would continue pursuing every legal avenue.
• Maxwell is serving a 20-year sentence related to Jeffrey Epstein’s sex crimes, and commentators on X questioned the political wisdom of any pardon.