The white glove treatment being extended to convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell at a minimum security prison in Texas should prompt an investigation into the facility’s warden, suggested MSNBC’s Ken Dilanian on Monday morning.
Reacting to an NBC report and a letter from Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) that revealed that the former associate of both pedophile Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump is being given privileges that sound more like an extended resort stay and less like criminal detention, the justice and intelligence correspondent admitted he had never seen anything like it.
With Politico reporting on Monday that Maxwell is hoping to get Trump to commute her sentence, Dilanian was prompted by “Morning Joe” co-host Jonathan Lemire with, “It's just sort of shocking to again, read these details. We know so much of how the Trump administration has handled the Epstein matter and handled Ghislaine Maxwell has raised eyebrows, to put it mildly. But to get such special treatment, no wonder so many, frankly, on both sides of the aisle, particularly Congressman Raskin here, really sounding the alarm.”
“This letter says that she is being waited on hand and foot in the minimum security prison camp where she is right now in Bryan, Texas,” Dilanian began.“And let's remember she was moved to this prison camp after she sat down for a bizarre and unusual interview with the Deputy Attorney General, Todd Blanche, Donald Trump's former defense lawyer, where he debriefed her about the Epstein case, even though he had no background in that case.”
“Now we're learning from House Democrats, we're talking to whistleblowers and looking at documents that she is getting all sorts of special privileges in this facility, courtesy of the warden — the warden is making this happen, according to these revelations,” he continued."
"She's getting, according to this letter, access to special meals delivered to her cell, as you said, access to a service dog, a puppy that other inmates don't don't have access to,” he detailed. “She gets access to a special exercise area, private exercise area, according to this letter, and visitors, relatives and family members are given special treatment whisked into the facility outside of the normal parameters.”
“According to this letter, they are allowed to bring in computers, which Raskin said risks her having access, unmonitored access, to the outside world, which is something that federal inmates don't get,” he reported. “So this is just stunning, and we haven't had a chance to try to reach out to the federal prison system during the shutdown.
"They're hard to reach right now, but I'll be interested to see what they say, what the warden says, if anything, in response to this, because these are very serious allegations of what looks like, frankly, corruption uncovered here by House Democrats.”
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