Stansbury worked for Ghislaine Maxwell—Now she’s pointing fingers at Trump

Far-left U.S. Rep. Melanie Stansbury (D-NM), best known for her performative politics and online posturing, attempted to mock President Donald Trump this week by invoking the late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein and a supposed “client list” that has fueled internet speculation. But Stansbury’s swipe at Trump immediately backfired, given her own troubling connection to Epstein’s inner circle.

In a viral post on the social media platform X (formerly Twitter), Stansbury shared a meme renaming the Gulf of Mexico as the “Gulf of Donald Trump is on the Epstein Client List.” She captioned the image with a smug, “Just going to leave this right here,” racking up over 44,000 views and a flurry of mixed reactions.

What the Democrat failed to mention, however, is that she herself once worked for an organization founded by none other than Epstein’s longtime confidante, convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell.

According to her official disclosure in 2021, Stansbury listed the TerraMar Project as a former employer — a nonprofit that was created and fronted by Maxwell under the guise of ocean conservation.

TerraMar wasn’t just any nonprofit. It was founded by Maxwell in 2012 and dissolved suddenly in July 2019, just six days after Epstein was arrested again on federal sex trafficking charges. Despite being promoted with TED Talks, UN speeches, and Clinton Global Initiative tie-ins, the organization gave zero dollars to any actual environmental programs between 2012 and 2017. IRS documents showed high legal fees, unpaid debts, and minimal legitimate activity, raising questions about what TerraMar actually did — and who it really served.

The project’s unusually shallow infrastructure, financial irregularities, and sudden shutdown just six days after Epstein’s 2019 arrest — all of which have fueled speculation that TerraMar may have provided Maxwell and Epstein with a respectable public-facing platform to launder money, build elite contacts, or conceal elements of their sex trafficking operation.

Tax filings even revealed TerraMar owed Maxwell over half a million dollars personally when it shuttered. Meanwhile, the organization claimed lofty goals of “shared global ocean governance” but was widely criticized as being hollow — a PR front cloaked in environmental buzzwords.

Maxwell, who founded TerraMar and led it as president, was later convicted in 2021 on five counts related to the trafficking and sexual abuse of minors.

So while Stansbury attempts to score political points by erroneously tying Trump to Epstein, despite no connection whatsoever, and him directing U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi to release whatever appropriate information she can, the far-left Democrat Stansbury might want to revisit her own résumé.

Her social media antics didn’t go unnoticed by New Mexicans. One commenter wrote, “You’re still tied with Gabe Vasquez for the worst Rep. in the history of our State — but this is still really funny!” Another sarcastically praised the post while ignoring the hypocrisy.

The bigger story here isn’t a meme — it’s that a sitting member of Congress, who once worked for an Epstein-linked entity led by a now-convicted trafficker, is trying to deflect attention by dragging President Trump into the narrative. If guilt by association is the standard, Stansbury might be staring into a mirror.

New Mexicans deserve better than cheap social media stunts. They deserve transparency, especially from politicians with ties to one of the most notorious abuse networks in modern history.