Donald Trump considered pardoning Jeffrey Epstein’s co-conspirator during his first term after becoming “very wary” about what information she could reveal, according to journalist and Trump biographer Michael Wolff.

Trump “became very wary about the arrest of Ghislaine Maxwell, and asked whether or not: ‘what could she say?’ ‘what would she say?’ And should he pardon her,” Wolff said on the Daily Beast podcast Wednesday.

Trump was a longtime friend of Epstein, whom he once called a “terrific guy.”

“He’s a lot of fun to be with,” Trump said in a 2002 New York magazine profile on Epstein, according to the Associated Press.

“It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side. No doubt about it – Jeffrey enjoys his social life.”

In 2019, then-counselor to the president Kellyanne Conway claimed Trump had not talked to Epstein, who later killed himself while in federal custody, for 10 or 15 years.

Maxwell was found guilty in December 2021 of luring young girls to Epstein so he could molest them, between 1994 and 2004. She was sentenced to 20 years in prison in June 2022, the Associated Press reported.

Epstein sexually abused children hundreds of times over more than a decade, exploiting vulnerable girls as young as 14. Prosecutors said Maxwell, his longtime companion, helped him and made the abuse possible.

A federal three-judge panel upheld Maxwell’s sentence in September.

Trump ultimately did not pardon Maxwell.

Trump insiders were uneasy about a possible pardon for Maxwell, according to Wolff, who has written several books about the Trump presidency.

“Behind the scenes, this was a discussion. Everybody around him was kind of like, ‘oh God, we hope she won’t say anything but we really hope he doesn’t pardon her,’” Wolff said.

In a Sunday night memo detailing its investigation into Epstein, the DOJ and the FBI claimed there was “no incriminating ‘client list’” and “no credible evidence” that Epstein blackmailed co-conspirators who sexually abused underaged girls provided by him, Axios first reported.

The administration’s stance rankled high-profile MAGA influencers who demand the so-called “Epstein list” be revealed.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.