Donald Trump and his Department of Justice say they want to get at the truth of what happened with Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, and the mass sex trafficking ring the two of them operated for decades – coincidentally while Trump himself was one of Epstein’s closest friends and associates.
Everyone knows that when you want to get at the truth, you sit down with someone like Maxwell, a convicted sex trafficker sentenced to 20 years in federal prison, who is desperate to secure a pardon or other concessions to lighten her sentence.
And instead of sending a professional prosecutor or FBI agent to speak with her, who could be better to do the questioning than deputy attorney general Todd Blanche, a Trump political appointee who just last year worked as the president’s personal criminal defence attorney in New York. Who could have any reason to doubt any testimony that comes out of that process?
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When the selected transcript of Maxwell’s interview with Blanche was released last week, it was clear that the disgraced socialite’s memory was not what it used to be. Maxwell was asked whether she’d assembled a series of birthday messages for Epstein’s 50th – which the Wall Street Journal alleged the president contributed to – and remembered that she had.
Sadly, that was about all she could remember. She didn’t recall Trump contributing to the birthday book, but nor could she remember the names of anyone who had. She couldn’t recall ever seeing Trump receive a massage at any of Epstein’s houses. She couldn’t even recall whether she’d ever hired a masseur for Epstein from Mar-A-Lago, which was astonishing given that 79-year-old President Trump clearly recalled her doing exactly that.
Maxwell could at least remember how much she and her family loved Trump and his properties. “My father liked him very much,” she recalled, giving Trump the posthumous endorsement of a financially challenged fraudster and bully, with whom the president has absolutely nothing in common.
“President Trump was always very cordial and kind to me… I admire his extraordinary achievements becoming the president now,” Maxwell continued. She even noted that she had “loved” going to Mar-a-Lago.
Sadly, among this forensic and prosecutorial grilling, Blanche found little time to confirm even basic details, such as Epstein’s claim to have introduced Donald Trump to his wife Melania. In the 105 pages of transcripts released so far, the First Lady’s name doesn’t appear even once.
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