Overview
- Rep. James Comer said the Oversight Committee is divided after Ghislaine Maxwell tied sworn testimony to a pardon.
- Maxwell sat for a deposition but invoked the Fifth Amendment, and her lawyer set clemency as the price for answers.
- Democrats on the panel, voiced by Rep. Robert Garcia, reject any pardon as disrespectful to survivors and say it would be a cover up.
- Comer said he opposes clemency, while President Trump alone can grant it and has not ruled it out.
- CNN’s Scott MacFarlane called the proposal politically toxic, as Raw Story relayed Politico’s account of GOP divisions on the deal.