‘It’s Hurtful’: Brother of Epstein Victim Condemns Trump’s Refusal to Rule Out Ghislaine Maxwell Pardon

Sky Roberts, the brother of late Jeffrey Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre, called out President Donald Trump for refusing to rule out a pardon for Epstein accomplice and convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell on Tuesday, calling the president’s remarks “disgraceful” and “hurtful.”

Reacting to Trump’s refusal to rule out a pardon for Maxwell, who is currently serving a 20-year prison sentence for sex trafficking, Roberts told MSNBC host Jen Psaki:

It’s hurtful for a lot of survivors out there. It’s hurtful for me as a family member to even hear the potential for a pardon, that he is considering it, or possibly not considering it, as he said. He didn’t waver one way or the other. However, I mean, why is this even a conversation? She’s a convicted– she was convicted of basically running a sex trafficking ring, and so at this time, like, what does this teach our children? What does this teach the people around us? I can’t even look my daughter in the face and give her a square answer about what our government stands for and that’s disgraceful. It really is disgraceful and it’s very hurtful. I know my sister would be very hurt by it because we did believe based off of the campaign that he ran that he would do the right thing, and right now he seems to have amnesia, as does most of the campaign administrators or people that he appointed. They seem to have amnesia that they ran their campaign on this.

Asked what kept them going in their fight for justice, Giuffre’s sister-in-law Amanda Roberts teared up and replied, “Virginia. She was able to do something along with her survivor sisters that was unprecedented.”

Amanda Roberts concluded, “They came up against the rich and powerful. She exposed them and in spite of the backlash, the threats, the lawsuits that came, she stood firm in her truth, and she keeps us going because we know that she would still be fighting. We know that she wouldn’t relent. We keep going for all of the survivors out there.”

Reacting to the possibility of a pardon for Maxwell in July, Sky Roberts said, “She deserves to rot in prison where she belongs because of what she’s done to my sister and so many other women and it’s absolutely a pure sense of evil.”

“She wasn’t stolen. She was preyed upon at his property, at President Trump’s property,” said Roberts, criticizing Trump’s remark that Giuffre was “stolen” from him by Epstein while she was working at Mar-a-Lago. “Stolen seems very impersonal, it feels very much like an object, and these survivors are not objects. Women are not objects.”

Before taking her own life in April, Giuffre had said Maxwell was even “worse than Epstein.”

“She’s worse to me, more evil than Epstein. What Ghislaine did to so many of us, it’s unforgivable,” she declared.

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