As President Donald Trump continues to face increased scrutiny over his ties with Jeffrey Epstein, his Justice Department is now making contact with the pedophile's convicted associate Ghislaine Maxwell.
And one security expert thinks they'll be dangling a plea deal in an effort to get incriminating dirt on former President Bill Clinton.
Trump’s relationship with Epstein, who died in 2019 while awaiting trial on human trafficking charges and is alleged to have operated a blackmail operation targeting powerful figures, has been in the spotlight recently after a bombshell report from the Wall Street Journal revealing new details about the pair’s relationship. Trump’s attempts to move on from the story have been largely unsuccessful, particularly with his own base of supporters.
Now, Trump is hoping that incriminating information on Clinton, also a known friend of Epstein, will help take the heat off his own relationship with the convicted sex offender, suspects Marcy Wheeler, who covers national security on her blog Empty Wheel.
“Today, Trump’s Defense Attorney Todd Blanche announces he will meet with Maxwell soon to make the kind of deal that could excuse releasing her early,” Wheeler wrote Tuesday.
“Probably, he’ll ask her to implicate someone like Bill Clinton. Absent that deal, it seems clear, the WSJ will continue to publish stories implicating the president in Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking."
Attorney General Pam Bondi directed Blanche to reach out to Maxwell, who is serving a 20-year sentence on sex trafficking crimes related to Epstein, early Tuesday to speak with her legal counsel.
“I intend to meet with her soon,” Blanche wrote in a social media post Tuesday. “No one is above the law – and no lead is off-limits."
And while the Trump administration is now going further than previously suggested in increasing transparency around Epstein, with Trump previously dismissing any theories around the disgraced financier as a Democrat-manufactured “hoax,” Wheeler argues that the entire act is merely a “false show of transparency,” one largely to take the heat off the president himself.
Wheeler pointed to Blanche submitting a filing to unseal grand jury transcripts related to Epstein, transcripts that would be unlikely to reveal any other Epstein co-conspirators. She also pointed to Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard’s accusation of FBI Director Kash Patel of covering up an alleged Democrat-run coup attempt against Trump during his first term, which Wheeler called a “false diversion,” as well as House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) shutting down a vote on a measure to compel the DOJ to release additional files on Epstein.
“Friday, in a false show of transparency, Blanche (filing under his defense attorney identity) moved to unseal grand jury transcripts that DOJ has in a form it could release immediately,” Wheeler wrote.
“Meanwhile, Trump’s DNI Tulsi Gabbard created a false diversion to distract his rubes, (and Monday), the Speaker of the House ceded his majority for a week to give Trump ‘space’ to cover up his pedophile problem.”
Wheeler also pointed to a statement from David Markus, Maxwell’s defense attorney, as doing Trump “a real solid” by proactively praising Trump’s efforts for meeting with his client.
“I can confirm that we are in discussions with the government and that Ghislaine will always testify truthfully,” Markus wrote in a social media post Tuesday. “We are grateful to President Trump for his commitment to uncovering the truth in this case.”