An attorney for Ghislaine Maxwell, the convicted sex offender and associate of the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, said he has not talked to President Trump’s team about a potential pardon for his client.

“We're going to take one day at a time. I know that's very cliche, but it's true, because things are happening so quickly,” Maxwell’s attorney David Oscar Markus told reporters Friday after he and Maxwell met for the second day in a row with Justice Department (DOJ) officials.

"We haven't spoken to the president or anybody about a pardon just yet," he added. "And listen, the president this morning said he had the power to do so. We hope he exercises that power in the right and just way."

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche spoke with Maxwell, who is serving a 20-year prison sentence, in Tallahassee, Fla. The

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