What makes Todd Blanche's potential meeting with Ghislaine Maxwell so unusual

[marmar]

What makes Todd Blanche’s potential meeting with Ghislaine Maxwell so unusual
Prosecutors meet with potential cooperators all the time. This is not a normal instance of that.

July 22, 2025, 2:49 PM EDT
By Jordan Rubin


(MSNBC) It’s not unusual for prosecutors to meet with criminal defendants who may have valuable information to trade for beneficial treatment. But we may be witnessing one of the stranger instances of this phenomenon unfolding in real time, with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche announcing Tuesday that he intends to meet with Ghislaine Maxwell.

Blanche, one of President Donald Trump’s personal lawyers who are now running the Justice Department in close coordination with the president, wrote on X:

Link to tweet

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Maxwell is in prison after a jury found her guilty in 2021 of conspiring with Jeffrey Epstein to sexually abuse minors. She and Epstein were both charged during the first Trump administration. Maxwell currently has a release date in 2037, and she has a pending petition with the Supreme Court to try to overturn her conviction. The Justice Department opposed her petition just last week, and we don’t know yet whether the high court will take up her appeal; we may hear from the court about that in the fall.

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At the risk of stating the obvious, the 63-year-old Maxwell probably wants to avoid spending the next decade-plus in prison. Blanche probably wants to use the tools of the justice system to help Trump politically, like the DOJ tried to do in the Eric Adams case, for example.

If those are the incentives, then the question becomes: How do Maxwell and Blanche work together to help Trump? ..................(more)

https://www.msnbc.com/deadline-white-house/deadline-legal-blog/ghislaine-maxwell-blanche-meeting-doj-epstein-trump-rcna220219

[malaise]

1. K & R

for visibility

[phylny]

2. Is she entitled to have a lawyer with her?

[Irish_Dem]

5. Her lawyer is going to tell her to cooperate or be killed.

If the lawyer has any sense and also wants to stay alive.

[RoeVWade]

12. Yes, we have an offer for you, you can't refuse. And it won't be a horse's separated head in her bunk.

nt*

[hatrack]

3. "Suborning Perjury Demands Courage"

IOW, lie for us and get a pardon, or get suicided.

This is fucking Guerra Sucia shit, Paraguay under Stroessner.

[Irish_Dem]

4. Keep your mouth shut about Trump. Or we will kill you.

[brush]

11. Right to the point. But just as with Epstein, she can't do much damage in prison.

It's a performative exercise for media to consume and pass on to the public. Some wlll eat it up, some won't. They're hoping this interview, along with Congress' August recess, will shut down this whole re-emergence of the Epsteln files thing.

It won't, but it's an obvious but amateurist attempt at transparency.

[brush]

6. She wants out of prison. She's an inconveinent person who has scanalous info on not just...

but several other powerful men.

What can he promise her...a possible shortened sentence, maybe. A release soon? I doubt that as she, as previously stated, is an inconvenient woman for several men. So IMO this meeting is performative andd for media and publc consumption only to appear transparent.

[Javaman]

7. as they saying goes, "the fix is in".

she will deny the orange asshole was ever a friend and was merely an "acquaintance". and plead the 5th.

she will get her pardon and fuck off to some unknown location to live out her life in luxury at the expense of the U.S. tax payers funding the hush money.

[hedda_foil]

8. Last time he sent Barr to talk with Epstein.

We all know how that turned out.

[AZJonnie]

19. There's zero evidence Barr met with Epstein in prison before his death

The claim is rated by all the major fact checking sites as False or Likely False. Basically it's a claim made by one random dude, referred to as a 'mob informant' in some stories

[Lovie777]

9. DOJ only job is to protect shithole and cronies at any cost.................

fuck the American people. DOJ don't care about the people of America and is doing harm upon them.

[emulatorloo]

13. Wait a second, didn't Blanche argue Trump was above the law and could murder his rivals

in front of our illustrious Supreme Court?

🧐

[ProudMNDemocrat]

14. TACO Don KNOWS his name and stench is all over the files.

He KNOWS Maxwell knows where the bodies are buried. He wants her "silenced", so to speak in Mob talk. Cement shoes for her.

[emulatorloo]

22. Yes, Bondi told him so in May, per the WSJ article published today.

[Buckeyeblue]

15. So she'll exonerate Trump?

She'll probably say some shady things about Bill Clinton. Trump will say she is courageous. He'll commute her sentence. She'll leave the country and we'll never hear from her again.

Unless she accidentally falls out a window.

[Baitball Blogger]

16. Uncomfortable truths;

Todd’s uncomfortable truth: Find out if Maxwell is ready to spread the truth about his bosses’ job and threaten her or bribe her to stop her from spilling the beans.

Frankly, if Maxwell gets a pardon, that means that at some point in the future she can tell us everything she knows about Trump. Would be a huge tell all book.

[Beringia]

17. I wonder if someone has a lottery on what will transpire, since nobody seems to know

[themaguffin]

18. It's sketchy (at best) and far likely more sinister.

[GoodRaisin]

20. This is another load of baloney to shift attention from the files he is hiding.

Krasnov must think his base is really, really stupid. Still, the media seems to be biting harder on this diversion.

And what exactly is “courageous” about Blanche talking to Maxwell?

[Torchlight]

21. While the house simultaenously calls an early summer to avoid

the face of persistent Democratic efforts to force publicans into publicly voting on the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files. Give the people meritless but very juicy gossip during the dog days, while providing the DOJ and trump the rest of summer to get their story and excuses in better alignment.