Ex-Trump Spox Sean Spicer Fears Trump Will Be Duped Into Ghislaine Maxwell Deal: ‘Outrage Like Never Before’

Former Trump White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said he fears someone in the White House will “mislead” President Donald Trump into making a pardon or clemency deal with Jeffrey Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell.

On Friday morning’s edition of the 2Way podcast The Morning Meeting with Mark Halperin, Spicer, and Dan Turrentine, Halperin asked his co-hosts about the prospect of a Maxwell pardon.

Spicer, in trying to give advice to Trump, told them how he had been duped into thinking everyone would applaud him for firing James Comey, and that he hopes that doesn’t happen with Maxwell:

MARK HALPERIN: I want to ask you one more question, and I’m asking with the knowledge of forethought and more than Spidey sense. Dan, what do you think the reaction would be if Donald Trump pardoned Maxwell?

DAN TURRENTINE: Uh, outrageous.

MARK HALPERIN: Or commuted or commutator sent.

DAN TURRENTINE: Yeah, out. Bipartisan outrage.

MARK HALPERIN: Sean, most people I’ve asked give the same answer as Dan. What would be, how would the president think about this? If there was a reason he was inclined to commute or sentence, what would he be thinking would be the.

Two things, what do you be thinking the upside would be and how concerned would he be about the criticism he would get?

SEAN SPICER: I actually think about this differently. I would say he would be under the impression that he was gonna be able to say that they got something from her further information.

I think if– anyone who sells him on this is lying to him. My point, and that’s why you’re at wi–, what is his reaction gonna be?

I think this is very akin to Comey, right? When he fired Comey he was told, “Oh, if you fire Comey everyone’s gonna cheer you on.”

And, and he missed the, like, I think people misled him on, on what was, how that was going to go down.

I think this is similar. There will be outrage, like never before, if she gets a deal.

This is, this will transcend li– partisan lines that I don’t know what Ghislaine Maxwell could possibly tell you. Now, could you…

DAN TURRENTINE: She’s going to exonerate him, and that’s what he wants is her out there saying he didn’t do anything.

SEAN SPICER: Right, but I’m telling you, if that happens, the number of people that care about this issue, care about those young girls, care about justice for so many of these people that have gotten off–.

I hope to God nobody in the White House has led him to believe that that’s the case, that there would be a smart move.

MARK HALPERIN: Stay tuned.

Watch above via the 2Way podcast The Morning Meeting.