{"id":73733,"date":"2026-05-19T13:58:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T18:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/19\/todd-blanche-says-he-would-not-recommend-a-pardon-for-ghislaine-maxwell\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T13:58:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T18:58:16","slug":"todd-blanche-says-he-would-not-recommend-a-pardon-for-ghislaine-maxwell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/19\/todd-blanche-says-he-would-not-recommend-a-pardon-for-ghislaine-maxwell\/","title":{"rendered":"Todd Blanche says he would not recommend a pardon for Ghislaine Maxwell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Acting US attorney general made comments about the Epstein associate at a Senate hearing over budget requests<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2026\/may\/19\/donald-trump-primaries-midterms-republicans-kentucky-thomas-massie-pennsylvania-georgia-alabama-oregon-idaho-latest-news-updates\">US politics live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Todd Blanche, the acting US attorney general, told lawmakers on Tuesday that he would not recommend a pardon for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/ghislaine-maxwell\">Ghislaine Maxwell<\/a>, the longtime associate of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/jeffrey-epstein\">Jeffrey Epstein<\/a> who is serving a 20-year prison sentence for sex-trafficking crimes.<\/p>\n<p>Blanche\u2019s comments came during a Senate hearing on Tuesday, where he was testifying before the appropriations subcommittee over budget requests for the justice department.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/may\/19\/todd-blanche-doj-ghislaine-maxwell\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Acting US attorney general made comments about the Epstein associate at a Senate hearing over budget requests US politics live \u2013 latest updates Todd Blanche, the acting US attorney general, told lawmakers on Tuesday that he would not recommend a pardon for Ghislaine Maxwell, the longtime associate of Jeffrey Epstein who is serving a 20-year &#8230; <a title=\"Todd Blanche says he would not recommend a pardon for Ghislaine Maxwell\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/19\/todd-blanche-says-he-would-not-recommend-a-pardon-for-ghislaine-maxwell\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Todd Blanche says he would not recommend a pardon for Ghislaine Maxwell\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73733\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}