One of President Donald Trump's allies was unable to summon a defense of his handling of the Jeffrey Epstein scandal, saying the public deserved more transparency in the case.
The president has been facing questions about his relationship with the late sex offender since the Department of Justice announced that no further information about Epstein's alleged crimes would be released, as multiple administration officials had promised to do, and former Trump campaign adviser David Urban was asked to comment on co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell's transfer out of a maximum security prison to a less harsh facility.
"I'm certain if [Deputy Attorney General] Todd Blanche went and interviewed Ghislaine Maxwell that he and others at the Department of Justice are cognizant of the underlying reasons of why she was moved," Urban said. "Make no mistake about it, she's still in prison. She's going to remain in prison for quite some time, perhaps the rest of her natural life. I think, you know, her sentence is fairly lengthy. I do agree ... that we need radical transparency here, right?"
"Whatever's in this, whatever's in this document, whatever's in this transcript, this transcribed interview [with Maxwell], I think we need to redact the names of those victims," he added. "But we should have more transparency. People should understand, again, why we are where we are in this ... and so that never something like this never happens again."
Urban highlighted individuals associated with Epstein, including his personal assistant Sarah Kellen, who a judge found "criminally responsible" for the sex abuse that occurred during massages she scheduled for the financier, who the House Oversight Committee did not subpoena in the case.
"Listen, Jeffrey Epstein's scheduler has never been called to task, the woman who scheduled all these young women coming to the house," Urban said. "I mean, there's a lot there are more questions than answers in this, and I think, again, stems from the initial prosecution, the line attorneys at the U.S. attorney's office, Alex Acosta, those folks should be brought forward and say, why did you cut this deal? Why did it seem to get swept away so quickly? I think those are the folks that are most able to answer these questions and I'd like to hear from the most."
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