In today’s segment of What Did He Just Say?, United States President Donald Trump is apparently siding with a sex offender. On Monday, October 6, 2025, during a conference at the Oval House, Trump was quipped about Ghislaine Maxwell, the close aide of disgraced financier and child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
In the context of Maxwell’s appeal being rejected by the Department of Justice for her 2021 conviction, Trump was asked by an interviewer if he was considering a pardon for her. After initially pretending not to know her name and having heard of her in a while, unsurprisingly enough, Donald Trump stressed that he was not completely ruling out the possibility of a pardon. He insisted on not being aware of the case’s developments, mentioning that he would have to speak to the DOJ to familiarise himself with it. He said:
