BREAKING: Ghislaine Maxwell seeks pardon after DOJ meetings

Maxwell's attorney told reporters that they hope Trump "exercises the [pardon] power in the right and just way" for Maxwell. She was sentenced to 20 years in prison in 2022 for the sex trafficking of minors as well as other crimes in connection to her boyfriend and disgraced financier, Jeffrey Epstein.

Trump, however, has said that it is something that he has not considered when he was asked by reporters about the issue earlier on Friday.

David Markus, the attorney for Maxwell, said that the meeting with US Deputy Attorney Todd Blanche without any offer of a pardon or clemency from Trump. He also said that the purpose in meeting with the DOJ was to have Maxwell tell her side of the story as she never testified in her criminal trial.

On Thursday, after the first meeting between the DOJ and Maxwell, Markus said that she "answered every single question, she never stopped, she never invoked a privilege" when speaking to Blanche, per the New York Times.

"She never declined to answer, she answered all the questions truthfully, honestly and to the best of her ability," he added at the time.

The meeting with Maxwell and the DOJ comes as the president has asked the DOJ to release any grand jury testimony in the case, subject to court approval. The meeting also follows on the heels of heightened interest in the Epstein case, where the DOJ has said in a memo the disgraced financier did not keep an incriminating "client list" and there was no evidence that he was blackmailing elite individuals.

Additionally, the memo stated that Epstein conclusively committed suicide in his jail cell in 2019. Some have speculated that his death was not suicide, but that he was killed. The DOJ cited footage which had not been released by the federal government previously, showing that Epstein would have been alone at the time of his death.

The House Oversight panel has also voted to subpoena Maxwell in the case, as well as Bill and Hillary Clinton with respect to the Epstein files, as they have previously been named as associates to Epstein.