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What makes Todd Blanches potential meeting with Ghislaine Maxwell so unusual
Prosecutors meet with potential cooperators all the time. This is not a normal instance of that.
July 22, 2025, 2:49 PM EDT
By Jordan Rubin
(MSNBC) Its not unusual for prosecutors to meet with criminal defendants who may have valuable information to trade for beneficial treatment. But we may be witnessing one of the stranger instances of this phenomenon unfolding in real time, with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche announcing Tuesday that he intends to meet with Ghislaine Maxwell.
Blanche, one of President Donald Trumps personal lawyers who are now running the Justice Department in close coordination with the president, wrote on X:
Link to tweet
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Maxwell is in prison after a jury found her guilty in 2021 of conspiring with Jeffrey Epstein to sexually abuse minors. She and Epstein were both charged during the first Trump administration. Maxwell currently has a release date in 2037, and she has a pending petition with the Supreme Court to try to overturn her conviction. The Justice Department opposed her petition just last week, and we dont know yet whether the high court will take up her appeal; we may hear from the court about that in the fall.
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At the risk of stating the obvious, the 63-year-old Maxwell probably wants to avoid spending the next decade-plus in prison. Blanche probably wants to use the tools of the justice system to help Trump politically, like the DOJ tried to do in the Eric Adams case, for example.
If those are the incentives, then the question becomes: How do Maxwell and Blanche work together to help Trump? ..................(more)
https://www.msnbc.com/deadline-white-house/deadline-legal-blog/ghislaine-maxwell-blanche-meeting-doj-epstein-trump-rcna220219

malaise
(287,129 posts)for visibility
phylny
(8,767 posts)Irish_Dem
(72,736 posts)If the lawyer has any sense and also wants to stay alive.
RoeVWade
(596 posts)nt*
hatrack
(63,122 posts)IOW, lie for us and get a pardon, or get suicided.
This is fucking Guerra Sucia shit, Paraguay under Stroessner.
Irish_Dem
(72,736 posts)Response to Irish_Dem (Reply #4)
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brush
(60,728 posts)It's a performative exercise for media to consume and pass on to the public. Some wlll eat it up, some won't. They're hoping this interview, along with Congress' August recess, will shut down this whole re-emergence of the Epsteln files thing.
It won't, but it's an obvious but amateurist attempt at transparency.
brush
(60,728 posts)but several other powerful men.
What can he promise her...a possible shortened sentence, maybe. A release soon? I doubt that as she, as previously stated, is an inconvenient woman for several men. So IMO this meeting is performative andd for media and publc consumption only to appear transparent.
Javaman
(64,307 posts)she will deny the orange asshole was ever a friend and was merely an "acquaintance". and plead the 5th.
she will get her pardon and fuck off to some unknown location to live out her life in luxury at the expense of the U.S. tax payers funding the hush money.
hedda_foil
(16,789 posts)We all know how that turned out.
AZJonnie
(1,100 posts)The claim is rated by all the major fact checking sites as False or Likely False. Basically it's a claim made by one random dude, referred to as a 'mob informant' in some stories
Lovie777
(19,459 posts)fuck the American people. DOJ don't care about the people of America and is doing harm upon them.
emulatorloo
(46,068 posts)in front of our illustrious Supreme Court?
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ProudMNDemocrat
(19,949 posts)He KNOWS Maxwell knows where the bodies are buried. He wants her "silenced", so to speak in Mob talk. Cement shoes for her.
emulatorloo
(46,068 posts)Buckeyeblue
(5,972 posts)She'll probably say some shady things about Bill Clinton. Trump will say she is courageous. He'll commute her sentence. She'll leave the country and we'll never hear from her again.
Unless she accidentally falls out a window.
Baitball Blogger
(50,587 posts)Todds uncomfortable truth: Find out if Maxwell is ready to spread the truth about his bosses job and threaten her or bribe her to stop her from spilling the beans.
Frankly, if Maxwell gets a pardon, that means that at some point in the future she can tell us everything she knows about Trump. Would be a huge tell all book.
Beringia
(5,165 posts)themaguffin
(4,579 posts)GoodRaisin
(10,376 posts)Krasnov must think his base is really, really stupid. Still, the media seems to be biting harder on this diversion.
And what exactly is courageous about Blanche talking to Maxwell?
Torchlight
(5,190 posts)the face of persistent Democratic efforts to force publicans into publicly voting on the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files. Give the people meritless but very juicy gossip during the dog days, while providing the DOJ and trump the rest of summer to get their story and excuses in better alignment.