Hopefully You Get the Cinematic Reference
So the transcript of Ms. Maxwell's interview with
Donald Trump's personal defense attorney United States Deputy
Attorney General Todd Blanche have been released, and they are, to put it mildly,as detached from reality as an education from Donald Trump University.
It's actually a clever gambit. Her statements are so over the top that if someone not wearing knee pads for Donald Trump reviews them, she can credibly claim that they were coerced.
Trump, of course, will eat this up, because he loves flattery and sycophancy, but no one else, not the MAGATs and not the Fox news presenters will see this as anything but collusion between Trump and Maxwell for their own benefit.
Ghislaine Maxwell, a longtime confidante of the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, told a top administration official she never saw President Trump engage in improper or illegal acts during his long friendship with Mr. Epstein, according to transcripts released late Friday.
The transcripts and audio, covering two days of interviews in late July between Ms. Maxwell and Todd Blanche, the former Trump defense lawyer tapped to the No. 2 post at the Justice Department, are likely to raise as many questions as they answer. Time and again she claimed not to have witnessed events or punted when asked to provide details of known incidents.
Ms. Maxwell has been seeking to overturn or reduce her 20-year sentence, giving her a powerful incentive to tell Mr. Trump’s team what it wanted to hear.
Maxwell PARTICIPATED in some of the episodes of abuse. That's in the trial testimony.
So no credibility here.
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“I actually never saw the president in any type of massage setting,” Ms. Maxwell said in a muffled English accent in the conference room of a Florida courthouse. “I never witnessed the president in any inappropriate setting in any way.”
Ms. Maxwell — who, according to prosecutors, has a history of self-serving falsehoods — knocked down the central pillars of the Epstein conspiracy theories, one by one. “There is no list” of powerful clients, she said, no blackmail campaign by Mr. Epstein to extort money or favors, and no dark secrets about Mr. Trump, who once considered Mr. Epstein a close friend.
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Ms. Maxwell, who is seeking a pardon or reduction of her long prison sentence for sex trafficking, downplayed the president’s relationship with Mr. Epstein. She went out of her way to tread lightly when the subject turned to Mr. Trump, who has not ruled out issuing her a pardon.
“President Trump was always very cordial and very kind to me,” she told Mr. Blanche. “I admire his extraordinary achievement in becoming the president now. And I like him, and I’ve always liked him.”
She described Mr. Trump as “a gentleman in all respects.”………
Ms. Maxwell was dismissive of Mr. Epstein’s documented history of preying on young women and underage girls, despite her own conviction on enabling his behavior. She said she never saw Mr. Epstein encourage men to have inappropriate contact with his masseuses, minors or young women.
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Ms. Maxwell went so far as to suggest that none of the famous men who hung out with Mr. Epstein came for sex.
“If you met Epstein, there is no way that this cast of characters, of which it’s extraordinary, and some are in your cabinet, who you value as your co-workers, and you know, would be with him if he was a creep or because they wanted sexual favors,” she said. “A man wants sexual favors, he will find that. They didn’t have to come to Epstein for that.”
Nothing to see here, move along.
Hopefully, even the MAGAts will see this.
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