The transcript of last month's witness tampering "interview" of convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell by the Malignant Fascist's former criminal lawyer and currently the Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche was released yesterday, a Friday afternoon on a day the broken media was consumed by the raid on John Bolton's home. As it turns out, a quick read of the transcript is what you'd expect from a perjurer facing many years in prison with lots to gain from exonerating the MF: lots of coaxed statements that put the MF at arm's distance from Jeffrey Epstein. As her first reward, she's eligible for work-release at a minimum security "Club Fed" in Texas, rather than in a facility suitable for convicted sex traffickers. From an excellent account in The Guardian by Victoria Bekiempis:
"...the deputy attorney general Todd Blanche – who defended Trump in criminal proceedings – interviewed Ghislaine Maxwell, who is serving a 20-year prison sentence for her involvement in Epstein’s abuse of teen girls. After the first interview session, Blanche said 'the Department of Justice will share additional information about what we learned at the appropriate time'.
The appropriate time turned out to be just before 3pm ET on Friday, 22 August when the department published redacted transcripts of Blanche’s interviews with Maxwell.
While the transcripts span hundreds of pages, their contents are unlikely to satisfy those who want to know more about Trump’s past association with Epstein – let alone those who believe that the deceased financier was part of a powerful cabal of the global elite preying on young girls.
Maxwell’s comments on Trump in the transcripts largely played into his efforts to distance himself from Epstein. If anything, the transcripts revealed Maxwell’s ongoing sense of aggrieved entitlement – as well as Blanche’s intense focus on Bill Clinton, who like Trump had past dealings with Epstein.
'I think [Trump and Epstein] were friendly like people are in social settings. I don’t – I don’t think they were close friends or I certainly never witnessed the president in any of – I don’t recall ever seeing him in his house, for instance,' said Maxwell, who had been Epstein’s on-again, off-again girlfriend.
'I actually never saw the president in any type of massage setting,' Maxwell also said, alluding to Epstein’s abuse of women and teen girls whom he’d met under the guise of them providing massages.
Maxwell was asked whether she had heard Epstein or anybody say that Trump had done anything inappropriate with masseuses, or anybody, in their world. 'Absolutely never, in any context,' Maxwell said." (our emphasis)
The strategy of the MF and his co-conspirators is to put enough innocuous / previously released material out in the public domain to appear "transparent" and to hope the public's interest will wane. Federal judges have pointed out in recent rulings involving the release of grand jury files on the Epstein case that the files would disclose very little of the information that people have been clamoring for, and that the attempt was to divert attention from the Epstein files. So, the coverup and diversion continues, this time with a dose of witness tampering by the MF's legal team. Release the Epstein files.
BONUS: the transcript/interview also didn't pass the smell test with a former top FBI official.
(photo: Complete strangers / Patrick McMullan via Getty Images)
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