"I'm allowed to give her a pardon but nobody's approached me with it," Trump said. "It's in the news…but right now it would be inappropriate to talk about it."

Maxwell is serving 20 years in prison for conspiring with Epstein to sexually abuse minors. Critics are calling on the Trump to release more information.

Plenty of Republicans are walking a tricky line right now on the Jeffrey Epstein files. But few have walked one as tricky as congressional leadership in recent days.