Justice Department seeks meeting with Ghislane Maxwell amid Epstein Outrage

[odanny]

So, this is where this Kabuki Theater starts to get interesting, although we have to change the ending to this play from the one imposed on Jeffrey Epstein. I wonder what this performative bullshit will yield for the "Justice Department". Her lawyer is smart, he is appealing to Trump indirectly by complimenting him. She is likely safer in prison than if she were released.



Facing sustained backlash over their handling of the Jeffrey Epstein investigation, Justice Department officials said Tuesday that they hope to meet with his imprisoned associate Ghislaine Maxwell to discuss anyone else “who has committed crimes against victims.”

The announcement, from Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, is the latest effort by the administration to quell the growing outrage among some sectors of President Donald Trump’s base after the Justice Department concluded this month that investigators had no additional evidence implicating “any additional third parties to allegations of illegal wrongdoing.”

That finding has ignited a furor among conspiracy theorists and Trump’s supporters, who had been primed for years to expect blockbuster revelations implicating powerful accomplices based on vows from the president and his allies to make public the FBI’s files on Epstein.

Maxwell is serving a 20-year sentence at a federal prison in Florida after being convicted in 2021 for her role in Epstein’s crimes. She is appealing her conviction to the Supreme Court — a push the Justice Department, in court filings last week, said it opposes.

“I can confirm that we are in discussions with the government and that Ghislaine will always testify truthfully,” her attorney David Oscar Markus said in a statement. “We are grateful to President Trump for his commitment to uncovering the truth in this case.”

Blanche said in his statement Tuesday that the department stands by its assessment that the original investigation produced no evidence that would warrant prosecution of others.

But he cited Trump’s directive to Attorney General Pam Bondi last week to release more evidence in the case, a move that prompted the Justice Department to petition courts in Manhattan and Florida to release grand jury transcripts surrounding the prosecutions.

WaPo

 

[dblack]

Yeah.

So, this is where this Kabuki Theater starts to get interesting, although we have to change the ending to this play from the one imposed on Jeffrey Epstein. I wonder what this performative bullshit will yield for the "Justice Department". Her lawyer is smart, he is appealing to Trump indirectly by complimenting him. She is likely safer in prison than if she were released.

... I got an early release of the transcript of the interview. OR the first couple of questions anyways:

"Ok, Ghislaine, do you want to spend the rest of your life in prison?"
"Do you know what a Presidential pardon is?"

 

[odanny]

Such a horrible contradiction facing Trump supporters, the man they placed their faith in the "release the files", only to find out he is a frequent name mentioned in them, and he actively seeks to keep these files sealed.

What's a Trump supporter to do?

 

[Independent thinker]

Such a horrible contradiction facing Trump supporters, the man they placed their faith in the "release the files", only to find out he is a frequent name mentioned in them, and he actively seeks to keep these files sealed.

What's a Trump supporter to do?

If Trump is actually guilty of something regarding Epstein, then why didn't democrats already weaponize that along with all of their other weaponizations?

 

[martybegan]

So, this is where this Kabuki Theater starts to get interesting, although we have to change the ending to this play from the one imposed on Jeffrey Epstein. I wonder what this performative bullshit will yield for the "Justice Department". Her lawyer is smart, he is appealing to Trump indirectly by complimenting him. She is likely safer in prison than if she were released.



Facing sustained backlash over their handling of the Jeffrey Epstein investigation, Justice Department officials said Tuesday that they hope to meet with his imprisoned associate Ghislaine Maxwell to discuss anyone else “who has committed crimes against victims.”

The announcement, from Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, is the latest effort by the administration to quell the growing outrage among some sectors of President Donald Trump’s base after the Justice Department concluded this month that investigators had no additional evidence implicating “any additional third parties to allegations of illegal wrongdoing.”

That finding has ignited a furor among conspiracy theorists and Trump’s supporters, who had been primed for years to expect blockbuster revelations implicating powerful accomplices based on vows from the president and his allies to make public the FBI’s files on Epstein.

Maxwell is serving a 20-year sentence at a federal prison in Florida after being convicted in 2021 for her role in Epstein’s crimes. She is appealing her conviction to the Supreme Court — a push the Justice Department, in court filings last week, said it opposes.

“I can confirm that we are in discussions with the government and that Ghislaine will always testify truthfully,” her attorney David Oscar Markus said in a statement. “We are grateful to President Trump for his commitment to uncovering the truth in this case.”

Blanche said in his statement Tuesday that the department stands by its assessment that the original investigation produced no evidence that would warrant prosecution of others.

But he cited Trump’s directive to Attorney General Pam Bondi last week to release more evidence in the case, a move that prompted the Justice Department to petition courts in Manhattan and Florida to release grand jury transcripts surrounding the prosecutions.

WaPo

Can we get the younger Maxwell to testify, with those tig ol' biddies?

 

[TimFitz]

If Trump is actually guilty of something regarding Epstein, then why didn't democrats already weaponize that along with all of their other weaponizations?

Only a Trumpster would assume that the law should be used as a political weapon or as a tool to perpretrate a cover up.

 

[odanny]

If Trump is actually guilty of something regarding Epstein, then why didn't democrats already weaponize that along with all of their other weaponizations?

This is the only defense you can raise, it is the only defense I hear from Trump supporters, but still, there is a cover-up. Trump won't release the files until he makes sure that he and his associates (excluding the dead guy) are removed from the list.

 

[Independent thinker]

Only a Trumpster would assume that the law should be used as a political weapon or as a tool to perpretrate a cover up.

Democrats have been doing it for over eight years.

 

[Independent thinker]

This is the only defense you can raise, it is the only defense I hear from Trump supporters, but still, there is a cover-up. Trump won't release the files until he makes sure that he and his associates (excluding the dead guy) are removed from the list.

It's a good defense because if there were something there regarding Trump, democrats would have already used it.

 

[dblack]

Democrats have been doing it for over eight years.

Yep. Same shit, different party.

 

[Rawley]

Such a horrible contradiction facing Trump supporters, the man they placed their faith in the "release the files", only to find out he is a frequent name mentioned in them, and he actively seeks to keep these files sealed.

What's a Trump supporter to do?

Laugh at and mock Trump haters such as yourself.

 

[JimH52]

MSN

"Justice demands courage," Blanche wrote in his announcement on X, adding, "I intend to meet with [Maxwell] soon. No one is above the law — and no lead is off-limits."

This move may have been intended to quell the rising anger from Trump's own base that the DOJ has been unable to deliver on their promise of turning over all files on the Epstein case, including the rumored "client list" of wealthy and powerful people who indulged in Epstein's dark acts with him — which has no evidence of existing and which the DOJ has stated does not exist, but which has persisted in the narrative of conspiracy theorists on both the left and right for years.
But the timing of the announcement, coupled with longstanding knowledge that Trump himself used to be friends with Epstein, has spurred a more sinister theory from some political and legal observers on social media: that administration officials are moving to secure Maxwell's silence, or maybe even offer her a presidential pardon, something Trump biographer Michael Wolff alleged he has considered in the past.

Okay, the game plan looks to be pretty simple now. Pam and he buddy are meeting with Maxwell to see if they can make a deal, buying her silence on trump, by dangling a pardon within her reach> Will it make the MAGA base happy? I am not sure. But it is witness tampering 101. I can hear the conversation now:

Pam: "You don't remember the president being with Jeffrey do you?" (wink)
Maxwell: "No, I cannot remember EVER seeing him alone with Jeffrey."(wink)
Pam: "Are you willing to testify to Congress under oath to that fact?" (wink, nod)
Maxwell: "Of course I will! (smile, chuckle)
Pam: "PARDON me. I need to get back to my office."

And everyone laughed.

 

[odanny]

It's a good defense because if there were something there regarding Trump, democrats would have already used it.

You don't know if these records were sealed, you don't know if anyone pored over these files or even examined them, you don't know if they even could have released it.

The fact is, they can be released now, but Trump is hostile to the idea of anyone examining his good friend Jeffrey Epstein.

That's the real story, not the deflection you are using.

 

[odanny]

Laugh at and mock Trump haters such as yourself.

And remain unwavering in your devotion to the perv.

 

[marvin martian]

If Trump is actually guilty of something regarding Epstein, then why didn't democrats already weaponize that along with all of their other weaponizations?

Yep, they held on to it through three presidential campaigns and Trump's entire first term, only to release it during his very unlikely second, non-consecutive term.

That's what the retards are willing to believe.

 

[odanny]

There will be nothing forthcoming other than a cover-up and a coached witness.

This is the only certainty regarding Epstein.

 

[JustAnotherNut]

If Trump is actually guilty of something regarding Epstein, then why didn't democrats already weaponize that along with all of their other weaponizations?

R's here have been asking that in countless threads ever since this current shitshow started when Maxwell said she was willing to testify and the media caught wind and blew it up..........and so far, none of the resident leftists have been able to answer without the standard 'but, but, but TRUMP'

 

[Rawley]

And remain unwavering in your devotion to the perv.

nah, that's all your cult's gig.

 

[Independent thinker]

You don't know if these records were sealed, you don't know if anyone pored over these files or even examined them, you don't know if they even could have released it.

The fact is, they can be released now, but Trump is hostile to the idea of anyone examining his good friend Jeffrey Epstein.

That's the real story, not the deflection you are using.

Democrats changed laws to go after Trump. If Trump had done anything regarding Epstein, democrats would have already used it to their advantage.

 

[MisterBeale]

This issue is already an Achilles heel to Trump, it would be made ten times worse if Maxwell was pardoned.