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The Don Lemon Show

Lemon LIVE at 5 | Will Trump Pardon Ghislaine Maxwell?! - July 25th, 2025

The Don Lemon Show

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News, Society & Culture

4.31.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2025

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

You truly can’t make this up. In the latest twist of the Trump-Epstein scandal, Trump’s Deputy Attorney General, Todd Blanche, personally met with convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell. And now, because we’re apparently living in a dystopian satire, there are whispers of a possible pardon. Yes, really. Is this where we are now? Is MAGA so far gone that even cozying up to convicted traffickers is just another day in Washington DC? Tonight, we’re breaking down how we got here, what this says about the state of the Trump administration, and whether this scandal might finally push the public to say "enough." Because if this isn’t a red line… what is? This episode is brought to you by Chef IQ. Summer Grilling Season is here and Chef IQ Sense makes you a grill master! During their flash sale you get 15% off. Visit https://ChefIQ.com and use promo code Lemon. This episode is sponsored by Lean. Let me get you started with 20% off when you enter code Lemon20 at https://takelean.com This episode is sponsored by ZBiotics. Go to https://zbiotics.com/LEMON and use LEMON at checkout for 15% off any first time orders of ZBiotics probiotics. This episode is brought to you by 120 Life. Go to https://120life.com and use the code, “D-O-N ” to save 20%. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Yeah. Hello, everyone. Welcome to the Don Lemon Show, Lemon Live at 5. So glad that you could be here.

0:57.0

It is a Friday. And I should say no worse for the where. Yes, I am and we all are,

1:01.1

but there's big news even on a Friday. Usually Fridays, you know, it used to be Friday in the summer. Oh my gosh, the summer doldrums, news dump, but not in these times. So thank you for joining

1:06.7

us for our live program this evening. And also let us know where you are watching us from

1:11.3

Columbia South Carolina in the house I see hi miss cat thank you so much for joining we

1:16.6

really appreciate it make sure you hit the likes make sure you hit the thumbs up it affects the

1:19.9

algorithm more people become aware of our conversation and remember we are live so it is of

1:24.2

utmost importance that you do that we're streaming on TikTok we're We're streaming on YouTube. Of course, our main show is on YouTube. We're also streaming on Instagram and Facebook and also Substack. Don't forget, okay? By the way, substack, not forever. We're going to start, you know, you're going to have to start joining for memberships in order to be able to get the live programming. So thank you all again for joining. So here we go. All right, I cannot believe that

1:48.3

we're to this point. We're the possibility. It's not even a low possibility. There's a very high

1:55.2

possibility that someone who has been convicted for some of the most heinous crimes, which is crimes among children or young people,

2:04.5

that person could possibly be pardoned. The attorney, her attorney, I'm talking about

2:11.7

Ghislane Maxwell. Her attorney is asking that she be pardoned. The president has been asked about it. We're going to

2:19.0

play his response shortly. But let me just show you how we got here, okay? Because this is way back in

2:23.9

2016, you know, not long after he came down the golden escalator announcing that he was going to run

2:29.3

for president when Donald Trump was swept into the White House on a wave of paranoid conspiracy,

2:37.3

on conspiracy theories, a whole Q&ON.

2:39.3

This is, well, this is even before Q&N.

2:49.6

Before it was recognized as a phenomenon, he wooed its early believers to talk about Bill Clinton and Prince Andrew and a secret cabal of liberal lawmakers and billionaires. In fact, as reported by the K-fowl over on the CNN

2:53.2

earlier today, Trump was the first person to ever bring up Jeffrey Epstein at all in the context

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