The family of a key survivor of the sexual abuse of Jeffrey Epstein urged President Donald Trump on Wednesday not to consider clemency for the co-conspirator and confidant of the deceased financial, Ghislaine Maxwell.
The family of Virginia Roberts Giuffre, a defender of sexual abuse who died for suicide in April, made his statement to Trump in a public statement after he told the journalists that Epstein, a sentenced sexual criminal, “stole” Giuffre of his Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Florida, where he worked as an assistant of the 16-year-old room during the summer of 16.
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Giuffre’s family described Trump’s admission as “shocking” and questioned whether he was aware of Epstein and Maxwell’s actions.
“It was shocking to listen to President Trump to invoke our sister and say that she was aware that Virginia had been” stolen “from Mar-a-lago. It makes us ask if he was aware of Jeffrey Epstein and the criminal actions of Ghislaine Maxwell, especially given his statement two years after his good friend” likes women on the youngest side. We and the public are asking for answers;
The White House Secretary, Karoline Leavitt, said Trump on Wednesday that Trump referred to Giuffre in response to a journalist’s question about her.
“He did not mention it. The fact is that President Trump threw Jeffrey Epsin from his club for being disgusting for his employees,” he said in a statement.
In the statement, the family also said that it was “the sentenced sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell, who attacked and took advantage of our 16-year-old sister, Virginia, Mar-A-Lago, where she worked in 2000, several years before Epstein and President Trump had her fall.”
The Department of Justice declined to comment when asked about the statement.
Maxwell, who meets a 20 -year prison sentence for his recruitment and trafficking role for sex, met with the attached attorney general Todd Blanche last week when the Trump administration seeks additional information related to the case of Epstein. While his lawyer, David Oscar Markus, said Friday that “there is no question or promises” about clemency, he told journalists that Maxwell “would appreciate any relief.”
When asked last week about forgiving Maxwell, Trump said he hadn’t thought about that, but noticed that “he is allowed to do it.” Giuffre’s family, one of the earliest and most prominent voices to require charges against Epstein and Maxwell, said that any widespread indulgence to Maxwell “would become history as one of the highest songs of justice.”
“The government and the president should never consider giving Ghislaine Maxwell any clemency,” said the family.
“Ghislaine Maxwell is a monster that deserves to rot in prison for the rest of her life for the extraordinary violence and abuse she made not only our sister Virginia, but many other survivors, which can be numerous in thousands.”
Maxwell’s lawyer did not immediately respond to a request for comments on the family statement of Giuffre.
A senior administration official told NBC News after the statement was issued that “no clemency is not being given or discussed.”
“The president himself has said that clemency for Maxwell is not something he is thinking about at this time,” said the official.
The Supervision Committee of the House of Representatives led by the Republicans recently summoned Maxwell for a statement due to the “immense interest and public scrutiny” about their case already Epstein. Maxwell’s lawyers said he would consider testifying if he was granted immunity to ensure that he does not “risk the criminal exposure.” Representative James Eat, R-Ky, president of the Committee, denied the request, according to his spokesman.
The Department of Justice led to the Trump base this month in a memorandum that dismissed Epstein’s conspiracy theories, some of which Trump and his allies have promoted over the years. Among other things, the memorandum said that an internal review did not find evidence of a “client list” and that Epstein died from suicide in jail in 2019. He also concluded that there was no evidence to suggest that Epstein had participated in Blackmail.
Despite Trump’s efforts to reduce the reaction of his supporters, sometimes calling Epstein’s problem a “deception”, many have indicated the previous promises of him and Attorney General Pam Bondi to release all files related to Epstein’s investigation.
Trump ordered Bondi this month to seek the launch of the testimony of the “relevant” grand jury. Subsequently, Bondi submitted requests in federal courts in New York and Florida. A federal judge in Florida denied the request of the Department of Justice last week, while continuing the judicial procedures in New York.
The directive to seek the testimony of the Grand Jury occurred the same day that the Wall Street Journal reported that Trump wrote a letter to Epstein in 2003 with a drawing of a naked woman. Trump denied having written the letter and then demanded by defamation.
