'They didn't need to!' George Conway debunks MAGA's key argument about Epstein files

Attorney George Conway — one of the most prominent conservative critics of President Donald Trump — recently addressed one of the main counterarguments against the Department of Justice releasing all remaining documents pertaining to deceased child predator Jeffrey Epstein.

During a Thursday interview with CNN host Kaitlan Collins, Conway (the former husband of one-time Trump advisor Kellyanne Conway) suggested that Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche's prison interview with chief Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell was not about "seeking the truth," but as part of a "search for sound bites" to "get Donald Trump off a political hook." He also reminded viewers that he and Blanche sparred on X about his questioning of Maxwell, which Conway told Collins was "terrible" and "haphazard."

"It wasn't about truth, and it wasn't about justice, and it wasn't about victims who he wouldn't even speak with," Conway said. "Instead, he's tweeting at me on social media. This wasn't about justice, and this wasn't about a deputy attorney general doing his job."

At one point, Collins asked Conway for his answer to an argument about the Epstein files that pro-Trump CNN commentator Scott Jennings made earlier this week: "Why did Democrats never talk about this when Biden was in office?"

"Why is this only something that the party cares about now, in terms of getting justice for these these women who were girls at the time?" Collins asked. "I think is a fair question. We've asked it to Democrats, but the Biden Justice Department oversaw Ghislaine Maxwell's trial. I mean, they could have subpoenaed the Jeffrey Epstein estate for these emails, and they did not."

"Because they didn't need to!" Conway responded. "The whole point — Epstein was dead, and Ghislaine Maxwell, their object was to put her in jail. They did that. They only needed—"

"—The emails could have revealed other people that could have been investigated," Collins interjected.

"Well, yes. But you know, the statute of limitations might have run against somebody like a Donald Trump. And the evidence from those documents might not have been sufficient to convict," he said. "I don't think these documents — however amazing they are — they're not enough to convict."

"The only people who were witnesses were these women who were abused. And you have to take the testimony they could get to get the people who actually did the trafficking, and they did that, and they got Ghislaine Maxwell," he continued. "And it wasn't meant to be a search for everyone who might have had anything to do with Ghislaine Maxwell—"

"—But shouldn't it have been?" Collins asked.

"That's not the function of the criminal justice system, OK? and Donald Trump, I'm not saying he committed a crime and that could be proven now in 2025. The reason why this is of concern is, he's the president of the United States, he's been found in another case, by a civil jury, to have been liable for sexually abusing a woman in a department store. He is a convicted felon, and he has had dozens of women accuse him, older women, accuse him of sexual abuse ... They all had no reason to lie. This is of a piece. And sometimes justice takes a while."

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