{"id":22576,"date":"2026-04-23T09:17:25","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T13:17:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/?p=22576"},"modified":"2026-04-23T09:20:34","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T13:20:34","slug":"ghislaine-maxwell-sent-a-mystery-usb-to-doj-days-after-melania-bombshell-meanwhile-oversight-engulfed-in-chaos-over-possible-pardon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/2026\/04\/23\/ghislaine-maxwell-sent-a-mystery-usb-to-doj-days-after-melania-bombshell-meanwhile-oversight-engulfed-in-chaos-over-possible-pardon\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghislaine Maxwell Sent a Mystery USB to DOJ Days After Melania Bombshell \u2013 Meanwhile, Oversight Engulfed in Chaos Over Possible Pardon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Daily Beast<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/maxwell-sends-mystery-usb-to-doj-days-after-melania-bombshell\/\">reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Jeffrey Epstein\u2019s accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell sent a mystery USB drive to the Justice Department days after Melania Trump sought to distance herself from the pair\u2019s heinous sex crimes.<\/p>\n<p>The disgraced former socialite sent the USB on April 16 in a fresh attempt to quash her criminal conviction and 20-year jail sentence for helping Epstein recruit and abuse women and girls.<\/p>\n<p>While the details of the electronic files are not known, the timing of it\u2014seven days after the first lady delivered a surprise statement about Epstein and Maxwell\u2014raised eyebrows across Washington.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Could it be\u2026 blackmail?<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/politics\/house-oversight-committee-republicans-split-over-whether-convicted-child-sex-trafficker-ghislaine-maxwell-should-be-pardoned\/\">things aren&#8217;t going so swimmingly overrun Capitol Hill<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Republicans on the House Oversight Committee are reportedly split over whether convicted child sex trafficker and Jeffrey Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell should be pardoned by President Donald Trump in exchange for her cooperation in the Epstein investigation.<\/p>\n<p>House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) told Politico on Wednesday that \u201ca lot of people\u201d believed it was worth pardoning Maxwell in exchange for her testimony on Epstein, who was found dead in his jail cell in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy committee\u2019s split on that,\u201d he said, before revealing that he was personally against such a deal as it \u201clooks bad.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To paraphrase Cicero, &#8220;No duh, Gomer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>DEVELOPING\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah, that sounds totally normal. Not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22576,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22576"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22583,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22576\/revisions\/22583"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}