(Washington) In his attempts at all directions to extinguish the fire lit by the Epstein case, the American government dispatched a senior official on Thursday, a former lawyer for Donald Trump, to meet Ghislaine Maxwell, accomplice of Jeffrey Epstein, Florida where she purges her prison sentence.
The death of Jeffrey Epstein, a rich businessman found hanged in his cell in New York on August 10, 2019 before being tried for sexual crimes, fueled countless conspiracy theories that he was murdered to prevent embarrassing revelations on leading personalities.
Donald Trump, who for months has promised his base explosive revelations on this file, has undergone a return of flame, including in his own camp, since his government announced in early July not having discovered any new element which would justify the publication of additional documents.
The Department of Justice and the FBI, the federal police, concluded that there was no evidence of the existence of a secret list of “customers” of Jeffrey Epstein and confirmed that he had committed suicide.
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In this tense context, the number two of the Department of Justice and former personal lawyer of Donald Trump, Todd Blanche, arrived in the capital of Florida, Tallahassee, where Ghislaine Maxwell, ex-partner and collaborator of Jeffrey Epstein, purges a 20-year prison sentence.
Several televisions have shown the arrival of Todd Blanche at the Tallahassee court, where the meeting stood, according to American media.
Questioned by AFP, the Ministry of Justice did not confirm the interview.
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“Very weird”
“If Ghislaine Maxwell has information on anyone who has committed crimes or crimes on victims, the FBI and the Department of Justice will listen to what she has to say,” Todd Blanche said on Tuesday announcing her intention to meet her soon.
Ghislaine Maxwell’s lawyer, sentenced to having recruited young minor girls between 1994 and 2004 so that Epstein exploits them sexually, assured that she “will always testify sincerely”.
This highly unusual interview between number 2 of the Department of Justice and a person convicted in a closed file aroused many questions among the legal experts and detractors of the Trump administration.
The influential Democratic senator Sheldon Whitehouse described this “very bizarre” meeting on X.
Does Todd Blanche go there “as a deputy prosecutor general or faction as a personal criminal lawyer for Trump? He wonders.
“What will he ask him?” Will he promise him a grace in exchange for his silence or a fable favorable to Trump? Who will be in the room? What records will be kept from it? He continues.
Salave missive
On July 14, the Department of Justice had opposed an appeal of Ghislaine Maxwell before the Supreme Court to obtain the cancellation of the proceedings which led to its conviction.
But he seems to have changed his tone towards Jeffrey Epstein’s accomplice.
Meanwhile, the Wall Street Journal Last week reported a health letter awarded to Donald Trump for Jeffrey Epstein in 2003 for the 50e anniversary of the financier, of which he was then very close.
The American president categorically denied and continues in defamation the daily.
Fire of all woods, he also tried to divert attention by targeting his Democratic predecessor Barack Obama, accused by the White House of having orchestrated the accusations of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, won by Donald Trump.
A counter-fire that reveals how the Epstein affair embarrasses the executive and divides the American right.
The House of Representatives was paralyzed this week by the attempt of an elected Republican elected official, supported by the Democrats, to force a vote on a resolution calling for the publication of court documents on the fallen financier.
But the Republican President of the Lower House, Mike Johnson, made sure to block this vote, invoking the need to protect the victims.
Faced with this paralysis, Republican officials decided to send elected officials on vacation on Wednesday for the whole month of August, one day earlier than expected.
