Trump Goon Breaks Silence on Maxwell’s Prison ‘Lies’
Todd Blanche clapped back at claims he went easy on the jailed child predator.
Donald Trump’s deputy attorney general defended his controversial meeting with convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell after the release of explosive emails suggesting the president spent several hours with one of Jeffrey Epstein’s victims, contrary to her claims.
Three months after Todd Blanch and Maxwell met to discuss the Epstein case, which led to the prominent Briton’s transfer to a maximum-security prison, the deputy attorney general has been accused of using the meeting to protect Trump.
These criticisms follow Maxwell’s statements to Blanch during the meeting that she had never seen Trump at Epstein’s home.
“I think they were on good terms, at parties. I don’t think so. I don’t think they were close… I don’t remember ever seeing him at his house, for example,” she said, according to the transcripts. However, shocking emails released this week show that in April 2011, Epstein wrote to Maxwell describing Trump as a “dog that doesn’t bark” and indicated that one of his victims, later identified as Virginia Giuffre, “spent hours at my house with him.”
Maxwell replied, “I was just thinking about that…”
The release of these emails sent shockwaves through Washington, with some legal and political pundits attacking Blanche, Trump’s personal lawyer.
“An important point regarding today’s revelations about Epstein and Trump,” wrote George Conway, a prominent lawyer and Trump critic, on X.
“Blanche’s questioning of Ghislaine Maxwell was either (A) totally incompetent or (B) deliberately designed not to elicit incriminating evidence against Trump.”
Conway, the ex-husband of Kellyanne Conway, a former Trump advisor, added: “In either case, he is unfit to serve as Deputy Attorney General of the United States.”
But in his first public statement since the House Oversight Committee released the documents, Blanche reacted vehemently and defended his handling of the interview with Maxwell.
“When I interviewed Maxwell, law enforcement did not have the information that the Epstein family had been concealing for years and only recently provided to Congress,” he explained before responding to Conway’s publication.
“Enough talk,” Blanche snapped at him. “This is inappropriate.”
Epstein died in a Manhattan jail in 2019 while awaiting trial for his crimes. Maxwell was later convicted of complicity, after spending years recruiting underage girls for Epstein to sexually assault.
As the political scandal surrounding the Epstein documents escalated, Maxwell was transferred in July from her Florida prison to a high-security detention center in Texas, which the specialized press ranked among “the best prisons in the United States.”
