Trump on accused Epstein sex crimes accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell: ‘I wish her well’

President Donald Trump on Tuesday offered kind words to Ghislaine Maxwell, the British socialite criminally charged with procuring underage girls to be sexually abused by the late investor Jeffrey Epstein.

“I just wish her well, frankly,” Trump said of Maxwell, during a White House press conference on the coronavirus pandemic.

Maxwell, 58, last week was ordered held without bail in the case, where she is also charged with perjury.

One of her accusers was just 14 years old at the time that Epstein allegedly sexually abused her in the mid-1990s.

Trump’s offer of well wishes to Maxwell came after a reporter asked him if “you feel that she’s going to turn in powerful men?”

Maxwell and Epstein had socialized with many well-known people, including Trump and Britain’s Prince Andrew, as well as former President Bill Clinton.

When Epstein was arrested last July on child sex-trafficking charges, there was speculation that he would inform authorities about possible sexual misconduct by others. He died from what was ruled a jailhouse suicide a month later.

“I’ve met her numerous times over the years, especially since I lived in Palm Beach, [Florida,] and I guess they lived in Palm Beach,” Trump said of Maxwell and Epstein, who was a former friend of Trump’s.

Article source: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/21/trump-on-accused-epstein-sex-crimes-accomplice-ghislaine-maxwell-i-wish-her-well.html