Conservative anti-Trump attorney and Society for the Rule of Law founder George Conway went on MSNBC's "The Weeknight" Thursday to tear into Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, as the latter attempts to defend his controversial interview with convicted sex offender Ghislaine Maxwell.
The Justice Department publicly took Maxwell at her word that Trump was not involved in the late billionaire sex offender Jeffrey Epstein's abuse, despite her being caught in lies at her own trial. She was promptly moved to a minimum-security luxury prison camp in Bryan, Texas, against Bureau of Prisons policy.
"You had a very sharp critique of Todd Blanche, the fact that all of a sudden all of these emails came out," said anchor Alicia Menendez. "None of them were referenced in his interview with Ghislaine Maxwell. So either he didn't have them, which is sort of a specific type of impotency, or he had them and didn't structure his interview with her around them. He has since responded to that critique. He said, 'George, you've never been confused for a trial lawyer, and these kinds of posts explain why. When I interviewed Maxwell, law enforcement didn't have the materials Epstein's estate hid for years and only just provided to Congress. Stop talking. It's unbecoming.'"
"Just the fact that he felt the need to respond. What does that tell you?" she asked.
"It tells me that I struck a nerve," said Conway. "And, you know, I think that even without the documents, he didn't ask follow-up questions, right? I mean, a sex predator, a convicted sex predator says, 'Oh, I never saw someone do anything inappropriate.' It's like, are you just going to leave it at that? What does a convicted sex felon think is appropriate?"
"I was a partner at a major law firm in New York City ... for 25 years, and if an associate came to me with that transcript where there was, you know, a transcript on any subject, and you let that answer stand and you don't say, well, what do you mean by appropriate?" said Conway. "Do you think that, did you ever see him do this? Did you ever see him do that? Did you ever see, you know, or and or the question of did you know, did you. I never saw him at the house. Well, did you ever hear that he was at the house? Did you ever talk to anybody who told you that he was at the house? Did you ever, did you ever see an email that said he was at the house?"
"An actual follow-up question," Conway said. "And you look at that transcript. There aren't any! It's outrageous."
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