'Not even close': James Carville warns Ghislaine Maxwell can't hide behind Trump pardon
President Donald Trump is keeping it close to the chest whether he is truly considering a pardon for Ghislaine Maxwell, the convicted accomplice of deceased financier and accused child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, as his Justice Department continues to interview her amid outrage from Trump's own base about the lack of transparency for the case files.
But even if Trump did the unthinkable and pardoned Maxwell despite her having actively taken part in abusing young girls, she shouldn't count herself home free, former Democratic strategist James Carville told MSNBC's Ari Melber on Tuesday — because there are a number of other charges, including at the state level where federal pardons don't apply, that could stick to her.
"I hate to laugh because, you know, there are dead people involved here, there are females whose lives and young girls now adults whose lives have been ruined for forever," said Carville. "But I'm sorry. You just can't help but bust out laughing at some of this. And again, I'd say to Piers [Morgan], I'd say to Megyn Kelly, I don't — maybe there is no good answer. And sometimes that happens in when you're in the middle of a PR crisis, is people kind of have it figured out."
"If they try to give Maxwell a pardon, go look at the sentencing memo that the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, look at what the judge said," said Carville. "They could have convicted her of 4 or 5 different charges of perjury."
"And then we tend to forget, if they do pardon her, the New Mexico authorities might get involved because Epstein had, like a 7,500-acre ranch outside of Santa Fe, and their stories about that being part of the truck stops on a travel log, I don't know, but I suspect there will be some curiosity," Carville continued.
This sort of prosecution wouldn't be guaranteed, he added. "Maybe the statute of limitations has run. I don't know, but there are questions ... there's a lot of baseball left to play here. That's all I can say. It's not even close to being over."
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