Okay, welcome everybody to the Jim Acosta show, and it's another day that ends in Y in Epstein Gate.

Trump keeps dropping hints that he just might pardon, Galane Maxwell, the ex-girlfriend of pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, and Trump keeps making excuses for why his name is in the Epstein files.

And today in Scotland, Trump said of pardoning Maxwell, well, I'm allowed to give her a pardon, but I, nobody's approached me with it.

nobody's asked me about it. It's in the news and about that, that aspect of it. But right now,

it would be inappropriate to talk about it. So he's sort of dancing all over the places, but again,

saying he's allowed to give her a pardon. My guest, Tara Paul, Mary, Terry, you've spent a lot of time investigating this.

You have your own substack, the red letter, your own YouTube show, and so on.

What do you make of, you know, Trump, he's trying to distance himself from Epstein saying,

I never had the privilege of going to his island.

I turned it down.

I mean, some of the stuff that he's saying,

he's just digging himself deeper and deeper in this.

Yeah.

He's certainly not helping himself at all.

Yeah.

And I do think it's interesting that they think that the way to close this case

is to go to the woman who was the architect behind

this vast criminal conspiracy. And let's not forget, one time when she was prosecuted in

2021, not that long ago, that prosecutor said she is not a reliable witness. She has perjured

herself in the past. They're having secret meetings

between the number two law enforcement official in the country, the deputy DOJ and a pedophile. I mean,

Annie Farmer, one of the victims, she said, like many others, Virginia, who was also found by Galen,

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