This piece in the Guardian reports on some excerpts from the Todd Blanche- Ghislaine Maxwell interview that I haven’t heard before:
While those supportive of Trump have touted these actions as a show of openness, many others have pointed to the questions left unasked – and the people who have not been asked anything at all – as indicating that these disclosures about Epstein were more of a show than any real push for truth. For them the Maxwell transcripts, and the ignoring of victim’s voices, are not a sign of openness; they are a sign of a reluctance to pursue any potentially dangerous truth.
For example, Blanche asked Maxwell whether people around Epstein – including the numerous high-profile and powerful men who had known him – were associating with him for the purpose of sexual encounters. In her reply Maxwell said that some of the “cast of characters” around Epstein were “in your cabinet, who you value as your co-workers”.
Despite the fact that Maxwell had just openly mentioned Epstein associates as being in Trump’s current cabinet, Blanche – a hardened lawyer not known for missing a trick in trial argument – did not pause to ask Maxwell to identify the cabinet members she was referring to.
What the hell? She said there are members of Trump’s cabinet who were associating with Epstein for sex??? And this isn’t major headlines?
I’m gobsmacked. Who could it be? If I had to guess it would be Kennedy and Lutnick. Bobby Jr’s admitted that he knew him and he’s a hard-core womanizer. And maybe Lutnick who is a rich Wall St guy. Other than that I’m clueless.
But you would have thought we’d have heard about this in all the discussion of Maxwell’s interview. She’s an inveterate liar, of course, so who knows. But that isn’t any excuse for the media to ignore this particular charge.