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Did Ghislaine Maxwell give up 100 names? (podcasts.apple.com)

submitted 4 days ago by griff@lemmings.world to c/news@beehaw.org

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Ghislaine Maxwell meets again with Todd Blanche, Trump's former lawyer, as the Epstein case continues. After two days of interrogations, Maxwell reportedly gave up 100 persons of interest. Is another chapter about to begin in this legal drama?

“Jeffrey Epstein's accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell, serving a 20-year sex-trafficking sentence meets for a second time with Donald Trump's criminal lawyer turned Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche to see if the FBI and the Justice Department might have also needed her to commit suicide. Maxwell's lawyer, David Oscar Marcus, saying after the interrogations, Ghislaine Maxwell gave up 100 persons of interest. But the New York Times cautions that those 100 people could be a combination of victims, accomplices and other men who sexually abuse the victims.

This, as Speaker Mike Johnson, shuts down the entire House of Representatives for the summer insisting he will not be bullied by Democrats into forcing a vote on demanding to see the Epstein files. Instead, Mike Johnson prefers getting bullied by Donald Trump into buying more time before the White House can figure out how to bury this story. Perhaps bombing the Middle East again?”

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[–] t3rmit3@beehaw.org 6 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Maxwell's lawyer stated that the DoJ asked Maxwell about close to 100 people, prior to the administration trying to turn this the other way around and frame it as Maxwell "giving up" people on her own.

Convicted Jeffrey Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell “was asked maybe about 100 different people” during a meeting with a top Department of Justice official in Florida on Friday, her lawyer said.

“She literally answered every question. She didn’t say, You know what? Don’t ask me that. I’m not going to talk about this person,” Markus said about his client, who is serving a 20-year prison term for crimes related to procuring and grooming girls for Epstein to sexually abuse.

“She was asked maybe about 100 different people. She answered questions about everybody, and she didn’t hold anything back,” he said.

Remember this for when the "list", if they ever release one, has no prominent Republicans or conservative donors on it. They will present this as "The Epstein List", but it's just their own list (and it's compromised anyways given the potential pardon being kept in play).

[–] TimLovesTech@badatbeing.social 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Yeah, nothing screams shady or coverup looking like sending your previous personal attorney to "interrogate" the one person that could implicate or exonerate you. And then feed her 100 names (of likely political rivals) and continue to publicly float the idea that you have the power to pardon them, "just because".

Edit - IANAL but I feel like the tactic is to make it impossible to use any further "testimony" from her after knowingly sending Trump's personal lawyer to feed her names. He's made it so now, no matter what she says, neither side will believe she is saying it of her own free will. The only way to believe anything she says would be to find it in her or Epstein's previous testimony.

[–] t3rmit3@beehaw.org 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

It doesn't matter whether we believe her or not, it just matters that Trump has the sliver of doubt for his supporters to latch onto to ignore reality.

Then if Democrats try to say, "why aren't you upset that there are no Republicans or Trump being accused, this is obviously a coverup", MAGAs can pivot to, "you're just trying to stop your guys from being prosecuted. See, you're the *real pedophile supporters, not us!"