'What is the point?' MSNBC flabbergasted by Ghislaine Maxwell's chat with Trump DOJ
MSNBC host Katy Tur was among those going through the transcript of the interview that President Donald Trump's former defense lawyer did with Jeffrey Epstein's accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell. After what she read, she couldn't figure out the point of the interview.
"My larger point here, and this is what I was going to ask before: what is the point of this interview? What's the point of this interview?" she exclaimed.
"Well, smoke screen? I mean, I genuinely don't know at this point, especially, I mean, we were talking earlier with like all the legalese and the, the caveats, of don't recall now that that's understandable to a certain extent," said Wired senior writer Jake Lahut.
"Why did Donald Trump or the Justice Department feel the need to go re-interview her? Why are they putting this out there? What are they getting out of it?" asked Tur.
"I think again, this goes back to every time we seem to return to the subject, which is like, it just leads to this drip, drip, drip of disappointment for the most invested people in this case," Lahut continued. "I mean, obviously, this is within, you know, minutes, under an hour of this coming out, so we'll see how they react. But I still don't know, and that's the thing, every time I call around my sources in Trump world, I'm like, what do you think the strategy is here? Even if it's not the legal strategy? What's the strategy? What's the messaging strategy? They don't have an answer."
Tur noted that it's clear she was moved to a minimum security prison despite her crimes, so "why make her life better? So, if you're supposed to be the administration that's going to fight against pedophilia, and that's what this MAGA world has said Donald Trump will be, he will be the one to come clear it out and get rid of these disgusting pigs, these violent Hollywood criminals who are preying on our children."
Tom Winter, who typically covers law enforcement and intelligence agencies for NBC News, noted that he's reading through all of these details. However, "I've yet to see an investigative lead that somebody has come across, that it appears that most of the document is completely unredacted. That's an area where you would redact. You wouldn't want an investigative lead out there in public. So where is the lead of you really should talk to person X, you should really talk to—"
"This person knew more," Tur cut in.
Winter went on to say that there was nothing in the interview that furthered any investigations, but no one expected that, as the DOJ had already issued a memo stating that there was no purpose to interview Maxwell.
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