The post Ghislaine Maxwell Preparing To Ask Trump To Free Her, Democrats Claim appeared com. Topline Ghislaine Maxwell will formally ask President Donald Trump to commute her prison sentence, according to whistleblower documents obtained by House Democrats, potentially paving the way for Trump to grant clemency to the longtime Jeffrey Epstein associate after she claimed Trump was not involved in Epstein’s crimes. Ghislaine Maxwell and Donald Trump attend an event in New York City on Oct. 30, 1997. Maxwell is serving a 20-year prison sentence after being convicted on sex trafficking charges in connection with Epstein, who was accused of abusing more than 100 women with Maxwell’s help prior to his death in 2019. The “exact content” of the commutation application is still “unclear,” Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jamie Raskin, D-Md., noted in a letter to Trump on Sunday, but claimed the whistleblower documents indicate Maxwell “has good reason to believe that, despite her sentence for child sex trafficking, she may receive the extraordinary grant of clemency.” Raskin discussed the commutation application as part of a broader request to Trump for more information about Maxwell’s prison sentence, after the Epstein associate was controversially transferred to a minimum-security facility in Texas after speaking with the DOJ about Epstein-and saying Trump was not at all involved with the financier’s crimes. Trump has not ruled out commuting Maxwell’s sentence or granting her a pardon, saying in October only that he would “have to take a look at it” and he “wouldn’t consider it or not consider.” Maxwell’s attorney, David Oscar Markus, has not yet responded to a request for comment, and White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson told Forbes the White House “does.