Former federal prosecutor Andrew Weissmann said President Donald Trump’s own behavior may be the biggest indicator that the Jeffrey Epstein allegations could be true.
Speaking to MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace, Weissmann addressed the Wall Street Journal's new bombshell report that Attorney General Pam Bondi told Trump in May that he was in the Epstein files.
He noted that the unusual concept of a deputy attorney general meeting with a convicted criminal, Ghislaine Maxwell, after she had already been jailed. One thing he said he's watching for is whether other Justice Department prosecutors or investigators are fired or resign if Maxwell is given some kind of "deal" despite being a "convicted child predator."
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche "may be" looking to make "a deal that's not trying to get at the truth, but is really trying to get at a sort of cover-up," said Weissmann. "However, it is certainly highly unusual to see cooperation at this juncture and to have it sought by the deputy attorney general of the United States. That is not the person who usually goes and meets with a convicted defendant."
He noted that looking at the whole picture "in a cynical way," the information could be released today. "They don't need to go to a court" to release the Epstein files.
"The information that they have today, if it is damning of President Trump, then clearly they are avoiding that and trying to basically do lots of diversionary tactics, including the grand jury motion, which is, you know, something that they knew would be denied and now has been denied by one judge," said Weissmann. "I assume it's going to be denied by others. And so they're sort of saying, look over here, look over here. And they don't want that turned over. That's sort of the worst case scenario."
It's also "one of the greatest signs that there is a there there," Weissmann said, of "Donald Trump's reaction to all of this."
If Trump truly believed that there was nothing in the files, then he could release them, said Weissmann.
"Todd Blanche says the president has said to be as transparent as possible. Well, guess what? That means all of your investigative files could be turned over, other than grand jury information, and they're not doing it," he noted. "And you have to ask yourself, 'Why?'"
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