No Presidential Pardon for Ghislaine Maxwell

Ghislaine Maxwell is the only person convicted in connection with Jeffrey Epstein's decades-long child sex trafficking network. She was found guilty on five federal counts, sentenced to 20 years in prison, and has exhausted every legal appeal available to her — including the U.S. Supreme Court. She is exactly where the law said she should be.

Yet right now, the Trump administration is entertaining the idea of setting her free.

House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer has acknowledged his committee is divided on whether to support a pardon in exchange for Maxwell's testimony in the Epstein investigation — the same investigation his committee is supposed to be conducting. Maxwell's own attorney has publicly stated there is a "good chance" of a presidential pardon. The White House has declined to rule it out.

This is not a close call. It is not a matter of debate. Here is why a Maxwell pardon would be a profound betrayal of justice:

The testimony-for-pardon deal is a corrupt bargain

Maxwell was subpoenaed to testify before the House Oversight Committee. In February 2026, she appeared — and invoked the Fifth Amendment, refusing to answer every substantive question. She has shown no cooperation and no remorse. Rewarding that refusal with a presidential pardon would set a catastrophic precedent: that you can traffic children and walk free by dangling the promise of future cooperation you have already withheld. Even Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene warned that if pardoned, Maxwell "will owe Trump and she will lie to protect people he asks her to."

The Epstein files connect directly to the man considering this pardon

Rep. Jamie Raskin has revealed that Trump's name appears more than one million times in the unredacted Epstein files — and that Trump's DOJ redacted 96% of those references from the public release. A federal civil jury already found Trump liable for sexual battery. The FBI interviewed a woman who accused Trump of child sexual abuse four separate times — and the DOJ secretly withheld those files from public databases. A Maxwell pardon would permanently silence the one person still alive who was at the center of Epstein's operation and could testify about what she witnessed.

Survivors are watching — and asking for accountability

Annie Farmer, one of Maxwell and Epstein's own victims and a witness at Maxwell's trial, put it plainly: "Could you live with knowing that you've chosen to put a felon — who recruited, groomed, and threatened underage girls and young women — above survivors?" Comer himself called Maxwell "honestly, other than Epstein, the worst person in this whole investigation."You cannot call someone the worst person in a child sex trafficking investigation and then support setting them free.

The opposition is bipartisan — and growing

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) has stated "the votes aren't there" for a pardon. Rep. Robert Garcia called it "outrageous." Rep. Ro Khanna called it a "betrayal of the survivors." Rep. Krishnamoorthi wrote directly to the DOJ demanding they "publicly and repeatedly refuse" to engage with any pardon request. Reuters reported that the committee's internal divisions make a pardon deal increasingly unlikely — but only if public pressure continues.

That is where you come in. Sign this petition. Share it. Contact your representatives. The survivors have been fighting for decades. The least we can do is fight alongside them.