Excellent point, as seen here, helping to facilitate that favorable deal.
Based on absolutely nothing other than what the crew is going along with, spreading propaganda which is building everybody up for Trump's eventual pardoning of Maxwell.
The cognitive dissonance is gem: Epstein was not his friend, Maxwell was not his friend, but they were framed because they were his friends, and he has no choice but to release her because she got screwed because she was his friend which she was not.