Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche completed nine hours of meetings over two days with Ghislaine Maxwell on Friday but made no public statements about what she said or the next steps in the Justice Department’s much-criticized Jeffrey Epstein investigation.

Former prosecutors said it was highly unusual — and potentially unprecedented — for a the department’s No. 2 official to personally interview a witness. Secrecy in a criminal investigation is normal, but the prosecutors involved in the case would typically be included in questioning.

“I’ve never heard of a deputy attorney general doing anything like this before,” said a former senior Justice Department official, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

  • Optional@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    52
    ·
    6 days ago

    Shocked, yes shocked I am to find the entirety of the United States government acting in the capacity of this demented rapist’s personal fixers.

    No one knew this would happen.

    Shocked.

  • criss_cross@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    15
    ·
    6 days ago

    When Mike Fucking Johnson says it’s dumb you know it’s dumb.

    I will note the obvious concern, the caveat, that Chairman Comer and I and everyone has, that — could she be counted on to tell the truth? Is she a credible witness? I mean, this is a person who’s been sentenced to many, many years in prison for terrible, unspeakable, conspiratorial acts, and acts against innocent young people. I mean, can we trust what she’s going to say?

    https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/ghislaine-maxwell-mike-johnson-murkowski-epstein-trump-rcna220816

  • jballs@sh.itjust.works
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    11
    ·
    5 days ago

    How could they write this article and not bother to mention that Todd Blanche was Trump’s personal attorney?

    • ExLisperA
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      5 days ago

      I don’t she was just listing names. More likely they came with a list and she was just answering questions about it.

      • So, Ghislaine, I think we have an understanding here. Now let’s go down the list: Bill Clinton
      • Pedophile
      • Good. Barack Husain Obama.
      • Pedophile
      • Good. Donald Trump
      • Never meet that guy.
      • Good…
  • rayyy@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    4
    ·
    5 days ago

    The cover-up is continuing. Millions will be spent to back up the cover-up. Deals will be made. Bribes and extortion are inevitable. The orange pedophile will never be held accountable.

  • ikidd@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    3
    ·
    5 days ago

    Blanche was Trump’s fixer before he was put into the Justice Dept. I wonder what he’s “fixing”…