'Absurd!' Newsmax torched by journalist for portraying Ghislaine Maxwell as 'victim'

Journalist Tara Palmeri made it clear Tuesday on MSNBC that Ghislaine Maxwell deserved no sympathy for her association with sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.

Maxwell was accused of procuring girls for Epstein that they both sexually abused and trafficked victims, including Virginia Giuffre, one of the first to go public with her accusations.

"I just want to point out again, for anyone who says that Ghislaine deserves any sort of clemency, when Virginia ended up in Epstein's house, it was Ghislaine who took her panties off. That was the first person who touched her. It was Ghislaine who brought her there. It was Ghislaine who found her at Mar-a-Lago."

Palmeri noted Giuffre was never trafficked to Donald Trump, who was close friends with Epstein for a decade.

On Tuesday, Maxwell's attorney told House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-KY) that Maxwell would testify before Congress if she were given immunity.

"I think any sort of idea that Ghislaine was just some sort of, like, victim, as they're saying on Newsmax and other places, is absurd," Palmeri said. "She was a pedophile. She did the exact same thing, and this whole idea that President Trump was upset about it at the time is absurd."

Host Nicolle Wallace asked why "MAGA seems to exonerate Ghislaine Maxwell's sexual abuse of these girls? Are they unaware of it? Do they not believe it? I mean, she sounds like the sexual abuser that Epstein was."

Palmeri answered, "Exactly. It's like they don't want to hear these stories."

Palmeri said she interviewed Epstein victim Annie Farmer, who told her that Maxwell "literally got on the phone with Annie Farmer's mother and convinced her that it was okay for her daughter to go to this ranch, Zorro Ranch, because she had promised them that they were going to pay for the tuition for their daughter. I mean, this is, you know — they preyed on children."

Watch the clip below via MSNBC.