Ghislaine Maxwell is not a victim. And if she is pardoned, it won’t be for the sake of justice

Jeffrey Epstein with Ghislaine Maxwell, who says she has been unfairly prosecuted. Photograph: Shutterstock

Roll up! Roll up! The Ghislaine Maxwell Rehabilitation Tour is coming to town. You may think Jeffrey Epstein’s associate and former girlfriend is now behind bars for good reason but, according to some big brains in the Maga-sphere, poor old Maxwell may have suffered a terrible miscarriage of justice.

Maxwell “just might be a victim”, Newsmax anchor Greg Kelly mused on air recently. “She just might be. There was a rush to judgment … All right, granted, she hung out with Jeffrey Epstein, and I know that’s apparently not good, but she’s in jail. For how long now? Twenty years.”