Article continues below advertisementThe brother of convicted Jeffrey Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell is defending his sister - as well as the president - in a new interview published on Wednesday, February 18.In a sit-down with ABC News, Ian Maxwell claimed the assertion that Ghislaine, 64, asked Donald Trump for a pardon in exchange for testimony that would exonerate him and Bill Clinton from any wrongdoing in connection to Epstein was attributable to her former lawyer. "Ghislaine has not asked President Trump for a pardon," the British businessman insisted.