Brutal new poll reveals whether Americans want Trump to pardon Ghislaine Maxwell amid Epstein accusations
Nearly two-thirds of Americans do not want the convicted child sex trafficker pardoned, according to a Times-YouGov survey published on Thursday.
A remaining 32 percent aren't sure how they feel about it, and only 4 percent of the 1,470 American adults polled think Maxwell's 20-year prison sentence should be commuted.
The poll has damning results for the president, whose administration continues to face widespread anger over its review of the Epstein files.
Forty-one percent of Americans think that most, if not all of what the Trump administration has said about Epstein is false.
Even Trump's own party has doubts, with 46 percent of Republican respondents in Thursday's poll saying they aren't sure whether what the administration is saying about Epstein is true or false.
The Justice Department and FBI put out a memo earlier this month detailing its findings after reviewing all evidence in the case against the disgraced financier.
Epstein died in prison on August 10, 2019 while awaiting trial for charges of running a sex trafficking operation that included multiple underage victims.
Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel confirmed Epstein's suicide after a controversial internal review.
They found no 'client list' and said they won't charge others in the trafficking ring.
The DOJ and FBI released 11-hours of footage showing the outside of Epstein's cell the night he died. And just a few weeks later on Tuesday it was reported the agencies are in possession of a 'missing minute' excluded from the original the footage.
This angered both Trump critics and supporters who believe Epstein was murdered.
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche interviewed Maxwell for nine hours in Tallahassee last week as she seeks a pardon from the presodent.
But most Americans do not want to see the British socialite let off the hook.
Democrats, Republicans and Independents all far favor Maxwell staying in jail and serving the remainder of her 20-year sentence.
Seventy-five percent of Democrats don't want a pardon and 59 percent of Republicans feel the same in one of the few instances where an issue transcends party lines.
Trump has recognized his authority to pardon Maxwell but has not committed to doing so.
He told reporters outside the White House on July 25: 'I haven't thought about it. I'm allowed to do it, but it's something I have not thought about.'
Trump has pleaded with his base to let go of their obsession with what he now calls the 'Epstein hoax.' He claims it's being exacerbated by Democrats who want to cause a divide in Republican circles.
But many are adamant that a 'cover-up' is afoot, and some within the online MAGAverse are calling for Bondi's ouster.
This month, Trump directed Bondi to file with courts in Florida and New York to unseal grand jury testimony in the Epstein cases.
The Southern District of Florida denied the request, and the Southern District of New York demanded more information from the government giving expanded reasoning for unsealing the highly-sensitive documents.
Filings on Tuesday found that there were only two witnesses in SDNY, an FBI agent and a NYPD officer.
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