The Department of Justice is requesting a meeting with convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell as President Donald Trump has been unable to turn the page on the Jeffrey Epstein scandal — and it's left some conservatives shocked.
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche announced Tuesday morning that Attorney General Pam Bondi had directed him to set up a meeting with Maxwell, who's serving 20 years in prison for her role in Epstein's human trafficking network.
Conservative commentator S.E. Cupp told "CNN News Central" the development left her surprised.
"Okay, asking Ghislaine Maxwell to help bail you out is not the plot twist I saw coming, and that's really interesting," Cupp said. "But I mean, a lot of this has been raised. What's she going to say? Is there going to be a quid pro quo here that makes anything she says not believable?
"The only thing I do know is that the conspiracy theorist is never satisfied and MAGA, Trump, MAGA influencers, this administration created a dependency on this drug, that is, a conspiracy theory. They did it for Epstein, but lots of other conspiracy theories, and telling them to quit cold turkey does not work."
"The conspiracy theorist isn't there for answers, they're there for the conspiracy," Cupp added. "So whatever they give them, this particular sect inside of MAGA is never going to be satisfied, definitely not by something Ghislaine Maxwell says."
Democratic strategist David Axelrod said anything Maxwell tells of Department of Justice should be viewed with skepticism.
"You know, not to feed conspiracy theories, the idea that someone who's in prison for 20 years is going to testify truthfully is really a stretch," Axelrod said. "I mean, she knows the president has the pardon power, she knows that the president has used it pretty liberally – I mean that in a different way – and so there is quite a bit of incentive for her to say what is useful and what is helpful and, you know, the idea that this Justice Department wants her to say, other than that is also strained by the things that we've seen, so I'm not sure. It's just the plot just keeps getting thicker all the time here."
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