A right-wing broadcaster trotted out a new narrative before President Donald Trump's deputy attorney general goes to meet with Jeffrey Epstein's co-conspirator in prison.
Newsmax host Greg Kelly suggested that Ghislaine Maxwell, who's serving a 20-year prison term for convictions on sex trafficking and other crimes, might actually be a victim of Epstein, who was described as her accomplice during trial testimony, ahead of her meeting with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, reported Media Matters.
"So, remember this?" Kelly said Wednesday evening on his broadcast. "Last year, President Trump last year in a courtroom flanked by two great attorneys, Emil Bove on the left and on the right is Todd Blanche. Today, where are these guys? Well, President Trump is in the White House. That's pretty awesome. Emil Bove has just been nominated for a judgeship, federal judgeship, and Todd Blanche is the deputy attorney general, the number two ranking official in the Justice Department, and he's about to meet with Jeffrey Epstein's ex-girlfriend in prison, Ghislaine Maxwell, to find out what she knows."
"Let's find out what is this all about. And she's also been subpoenaed by the Oversight committee," Kelly added. "I think this is great. I do have a feeling that she has been — she just might be a victim. She just might be. There was a rush to judgment. There was a lot of chaos there for a while."
Maxwell was convicted in 2021, two years after Epstein took his life in jail while awaiting trial on new charges, for her role in helping the disgraced financier recruit, groom and abuse teenage girls, and both of them were friends with Trump in the 1990s and early 2000s.
"All right, granted, she hung out with Jeffrey Epstein, and I know that's apparently not good, but she's in jail," Kelly said. "For how long now? Twenty years, a 20-year sentence. Well, Alan Dershowitz is one of the greatest attorneys who ever lived, and he has this to say about Ghislaine Maxwell situation."
Dershowitz, who was an Epstein associate himself, told former Newsmax host Eric Bolling that Maxwell was essentially serving a sentence that should have gone to the late financier, and the veteran attorney said he believes her appeal should be granted and that she should be released from prison – to which Kelly agreed.
"She deserves to be out," Kelly said, quoting Dershowitz, "and maybe she never deserved to be in there in the first place."
Kelly then told viewers they should question all the facts around the case, which has become a top news story after the Department of Justice abruptly announced that no further revelations would be made despite Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI leaders Kash Patel and Dan Bongino teasing new information about the investigation.
"Now, how could you say such a thing?" Kelly said, imagining outrage over his defense of Maxwell and Epstein. "I mean, these are perverts. These are child molesters. We've heard that from whom? From the media, from prosecutors. Prosecutors prosecuted President Trump over nothing. I don't know, but I'm skeptical of everything and everybody these days, and you should be, too."