President Trump is providing Ghislaine Maxwell with “grotesque pampering” in prison as a “quid pro quo” for her silence about high-profile clients of Jeffery Epstein’s sex-trafficking ring, Democrats claim in a bombshell letter.
Rep. Jamie Raskin, a Maryland Democrat and senior member of the House Oversight Committee, said Maxwell is receiving “top-flight luxury service” at the minimum-security Federal Prison Camp in Bryan, Texas, where she was transferred after sitting for two days of interviews with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche last summer.
Mr. Raskin said a whistleblower, a “top official” whom he did not identify, claims that Maxwell receives customized meals, special visitors, and personal recreation time, and is allowed to play with prison’s puppies that are part of a training program.
The staff working at the prison camp “have been waiting on Maxwell hand and foot,” the whistleblower said.
She also has started the application process for a commutation from Mr. Trump that would cut short her 20-year prison sentence, the anonymous insider said.
Mr. Raskin wrote Monday to Mr. Trump, demanding to know if he is providing favorable treatment to Maxwell, perhaps to keep her quiet about his own involvement with Epstein, whom the president palled around with decades ago. Mr. Raskin and House Democrats plan to force a House floor vote that would require the Justice Department to release all of its investigatory files related to Epstein.
“The situation looks more and more suspicious to growing bipartisan majorities in Congress every day,” Mr. Raskin wrote to Mr. Trump. “The House Committee on the Judiciary has now received whistleblower information indicating that this cover up goes even further into the Department of Justice and Bureau of Prisons than was known before.”
Maxwell was convicted in 2021 of serving as Mr. Epstein’s accomplice in the sex trafficking of underage girls. She unsuccessfully sought to have her conviction thrown out on the basis that she should have been shielded from prosecution under a 2008 an agreement made with Epstein in 2008 in exchange for his guilty plea on prostitution charges.
Epstein committed suicide in his jail cell in 2019 as he awaited federal prosecution on sex-trafficking charges.
Maxwell was transferred from a federal prison in Tallahassee, Florida, to a federal prison in Bryan, Texas, a week after meeting with Mr. Blanche. She had complained about poor conditions at the Tallahassee facility.
According to transcripts of the interview, Maxwell said she saw no wrongdoing by Mr. Trump when he was with Epstein.
In his letter to Mr. Trump, Mr. Raskin said inmates and staff who question the special treatment Maxwell receives are punished or retaliated against by the prison’s warden, Tanisha Hall.
“Within FPC Bryan, the deference and servility to Ms. Maxwell have reached such preposterous levels that one of the top officials at the facility has complained that he is ’sick of having to be Maxwell’s bitch,’” Mr. Raskin wrote.
The Washington Times has reached out to the Trump administration and Maxwell’s lawyer.
Mr. Raskin’s letter seeks answers from Mr. Trump about the alleged preferential treatment and whether Maxwell has promised the president anything in exchange for a commutation and special accommodations.
