A little over six months into President Trump’s second term, the Jeffrey Epstein stench still lingers. It clings to headlines, fuels whispers, infects backroom dealings. It refuses to be buried.

And now, Ghislaine Maxwell — convicted child trafficker and Epstein’s chief enabler — resurfaces with a proposition: congressional testimony, in exchange for a pardon.

The truly alarming development isn't Maxwell's calculated gambit — it is that Trump appears to be listening, particularly with Newsmax personalities like Greg Kelly painting her as some misunderstood victim of prosecutorial overreach.

Kelly's "she just might be a victim" fantasy crumbles against courtroom reality. Federal prosecutors laid it out in brutal detail. Maxwell wasn’t just an accomplice; she was a talent scout for a depraved monster. She sourced girls — runaways, trauma survivors, kids scraping by in broken homes — because they were easy to isolate and even easier to discard. She offered big lies disguised as big dreams: modeling gigs, scholarships, access to elite worlds they never imagined.

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