Jim Acosta Says Trump Presidency ‘Over’ If He Pardons Epstein Accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell

Substack host Jim Acosta said that President Donald Trump’s presidency is “basically over” if he decides to pardon Ghislaine Maxwell, the jailed accomplice of deceased sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein.

Trump has been asked repeatedly about pardoning Maxwell as Trump’s DOJ meets with her and Trump allies push a victim narrative. The president has not ruled out a pardon, instead boasting about his right to do so while also claiming it’s not the time “to talk about” a pardon.

Former MSNBC host Katie Phang called the pardon issue “political kryptonite” during an episode of The Jim Acosta Show, and Acosta went further by saying it would destroy his presidency:

KATIE PHANG: I think the political kryptonite, though, of a pardon of Ghislaine Maxwell, I don’t care how valuable somebody in MAGA land, Trump’s MAGA brain thinks is going to be. I don’t care how reptilian of a brain that man has.

A pardon a convicted sex predator of children. It’s just too toxic. I mean, MAGA-.

JIM ACOSTA: It’s disgusting.

KATIE PHANG: I mean, if you’ve lost the QAnon shaman on this, I don’t think… That this would ever carry the day. But that being said, to your point, if you kind of sprinkle in all sorts of absurd accusations about Clinton and you elevate it to Pizzagate, these people are so dumb that they have the attention span of squirrels.

And I personally like squirrels, but it’s like you do this and then you say, okay, but all of this and you’ve got Pizzigate on steroids, right?

And so you give them another conspiracy theory to latch onto and then they abandon it–

JIM ACOSTA: No, that’s what I’m worried about is that they’re going to say, you know, they’ll coach her to say that, “Oh, Donald Trump’s in there. Yes, they were acquaintances at one time.”.

But, you, know, just like the White House is saying, you know, that Donald Trump once said that Epstein, you’re out of Mar-a-Lago because you’re a creep.

And Ghislaine Maxwell will repeat those words. And then she will start to throw Democrats under the bus and accuse them of 10 different things and try to massage this in a way–. No pun intended –That it makes Trump look like he’s the winner in all of this.

And that to me is the, and I tend to agree with you and I’ll take it one step further.

I think if Donald Trump pardons Ghislaine Maxwell, his presidency is basically over. He is, for all intents and purposes, a lame duck who is damaged goods.

Not just to the Republican party, but to the country.

Somebody who pardoned a convicted child sex trafficker, my God!

I mean, we’re not talking about pardoning– I mean, he has already pardoned January such rioters and criminals and so on. That was shameful enough.

But a child sex trafficker. I mean my God, have you no decency?

Watch above via The Jim Acosta Show.