Why it matters that top Republicans are deferring to Trump on a possible Maxwell pardon
Plenty of Republicans are walking a tricky line right now on the Jeffrey Epstein files. But few have walked one as tricky as congressional leadership in recent days.
Asked about President Donald Trump potentially pardoning Epstein’s convicted sex-trafficking accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell – something Trump conspicuously left the door open to Friday and then again Monday – House Speaker Mike Johnson punted on Sunday.
“Well, I mean, obviously that’s a decision of the president,” he told NBC’s “Meet the Press,” adding: “I won’t get in front of him. That’s not my lane.”
When pressed, the Louisiana Republican relented a bit and said that the idea gave him “great pause” because of her “unspeakable crimes” – while again emphasizing that’s “not my decision.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-actually-pardon-ghislaine-maxwell-212637404.html
He may be a pedophile but he's our pedophile - Mike Johnson
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