'Absurd universe': Maxwell slammed for offering 'a complete whitewash' in new interview

24 August

Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell at Balmoral Estate in Scotland (Image: U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York)

CNN senior legal analyst and former federal prosecutor Elie Honig said convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell clearly worked hard to earn her transfer to a cushy, minimum-security federal prison camp in Bryan, Texas.

“Honestly, this is what I was expecting,” Honig told CNN anchor Micheal Smerconish. “Ghislaine Maxwell paints this absurd universe where she has done nothing wrong, where all the witnesses against her were lying, where the jurors who convicted her were wrong, where the various judges who upheld their conviction were wrong. And, by the way, nobody else did anything wrong. In fact, Michael, she barely even implicates Jeffrey Epstein. … [S]he went in there and basically offered a complete whitewash.”

Also pointedly unimplicated in Maxwell’s transcript was President Donald Trump, who oversaw Maxwell’s transfer to a low-security facility after her interview by Deputy AG and former Trump defense attorney Todd Blanche.

“They spend more time … discussing the birthday book and whether Donald Trump sent this bawdy letter or not than they actually spend discussing whether various people were engaged in any wrongdoing,” Honig said, adding Blanche was trying to “lay a foundation” for Trump’s civil suit against the Wall Street Journal.

“… so, Donald Trump can say, ‘you see, Todd Blanche went in and talked to … Ghislaine Maxwell, who put this book together. She says she was the coordinator there, and she cleared me. Hence I did not write the letter. Hence my lawsuit against Rupert Murdoch has some merit.’ So, Blanche is in there as Trump's private civil lawyer.”

As a criminal witness, Honig called Maxwell’s “testimony is utterly useless.”

“If I was a prosecutor and got a look at this transcript … I'd say, don't even waste the time. She's lying. She gives a completely non-credible account of the world, and she doesn't help us implicate anyone else,” Honig said. “… It's astonishing, Michael, when you read the transcript. This is a person who committed and has been convicted of horrific crimes, and she believes she is just purely a victim. She feels horribly sorry for herself. She is disdainful towards the victims. It's really a remarkable sort of character study.”

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