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Given that Maxwell seems to be desperately looking for a Trump pardon, her comments were difficult to accept at face value. That said, for House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, it apparently wasn’t obvious at all.

Jordan on Ghislaine Maxwell Transcript: This confirms what we all knew: President Trump didn’t do anything wrong. This transcript confirms that. There’s nothing there based on this interview with Maxwell.

— Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) 2025-08-24T00:17:23.360Z

....There are a couple of problems here.

The first is Jordan’s eagerness to trust the word of a convicted sex trafficker who is looking for a pardon. I can appreciate why Trump’s sycophantic allies are eager to make the Epstein scandal go away, but to pretend that Maxwell has credibility and her claims should be accepted at face value is ridiculous.

The second problem is that Jordan isn’t exactly the Republican Party’s best messenger on this issue. After all, as NBC News reported over the course of several years, the right-wing congressman was accused of turning a blind eye to sexual misconduct targeting student athletes at Ohio State during Jordan’s tenure as an assistant coach.

The congressman has repeatedly said he didn’t know about the abuses, but given the nature of the controversy, maybe the GOP should send out someone else to tout Maxwell’s claims in the Epstein scandal?