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Trump's DOJ makes bombshell decision on Ghislaine Maxwell case
• By KATELYN CARALLE and DANIEL BATESCurrently serving a 20-year prison sentence, Maxwell's lawyers argued she shouldn't have been put on trial in the first place because of the plea deal Epstein reached with Florida prosecutors in 2008.
But Donald Trump's Attorney General Pam Bondi's DOJ responded in a filing on Monday saying that the Supreme Court should not take up her case.
The disgraced socialite, 63, was spotted working off steam before the ruling was made - all while the Epstein Files storm continues to rupture Trump's Washington DC.
In a statement to Daily Mail, Maxwell's attorney David Oscar Markus stated: 'He's the ultimate dealmaker - and I'm sure he'd agree that when the United States gives its word, it should keep it.
'With all the talk about who's being prosecuted and who isn't, it's especially unfair that Ghislaine Maxwell remains in prison based on a promise the government made and broke.'
John Sauer, Trump's pick for Solicitor General, hit Maxwell's attorneys for an 'implausible reading' of the law and 'misplaced' arguments they made the case for the government to drop her charges.
The decision comes after Maxwell was seen looking like any other prisoner while out for a run while behind bars at FCI Tallahassee - dressed in drab gray pants and top.
Maxwell, a longtime fitness enthusiast, stared into the distance and at one point stopped to catch her breath during the 45-minute-long evening run around 7.15pm before heading back into her cell at 8pm.
Bondi, meanwhile, can't seem to escape the Epstein case despite her desperate attempts to leave it in the rearview mirror.
The Maxwell filing comes at a particularly charged time for Bondi where, as head of DOJ, she is under fire by pro-MAGA firebrands claiming she botched the Epstein files review.
Last weekend the DOJ and FBI leaked an unsigned memo concluding that Epstein did kill himself in prison in August 2019 and that he did not hold a converted 'client list' of high-profile co-conspirators.