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Miles Archer

(22,298 posts)
Wed Feb 11, 2026, 08:26 AM 14 hrs ago

"A simple question for Bondi today" at her Congressional hearing. Let's see if anyone asks it, and how she responds.

A simple question to ask Bondi today: Why did Blanche conduct the Maxwell proffer?

The former Trump criminal defense lawyer, who hadn’t worked on the Epstein associate’s prosecution, was nonetheless the one who personally met with her.

Feb. 11, 2026, 6:00 AM EST
By Jordan Rubin

https://www.ms.now/deadline-white-house/deadline-legal-blog/bondi-congressional-testimony-blanche-ghislaine-maxwell

Here’s a simple question to ask Attorney General Pam Bondi at her congressional hearing Wednesday: Why was Todd Blanche the one to conduct a proffer of Ghislaine Maxwell?

Blanche, the highest-ranking Justice Department official under Bondi and a former Donald Trump defense lawyer, led the interviews of the convicted Jeffrey Epstein associate over the summer. The deputy attorney general said that he reached out to Maxwell at Bondi’s direction.

But on top of Blanche’s enduring allegiance to Trump and the clear conflict it creates, he was an odd choice to question Maxwell about any actionable Epstein-related information she might have — that is, if the point was to properly collect and analyze such information.

The truth does matter. That’s why Blanche was the wrong one to purportedly seek it in this situation.

Though it might seem like sending in a high-ranking official puts more legal muscle behind the endeavor, the opposite is true when it comes to conducting proffer sessions. That’s because those interviews are typically led by the prosecutors who have actually worked on the cases and investigations at issue, as they’d know what to ask and how to assess the value of the defendant’s answers.
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"A simple question for Bondi today" at her Congressional hearing. Let's see if anyone asks it, and how she responds. (Original Post) Miles Archer 14 hrs ago OP
In Earth 1, that's a good question roscoeroscoe 14 hrs ago #1
Another question to ask her: "If my name appeared 38,000 times in the Epstein files, would you investigate me?" TheRickles 14 hrs ago #2
Shes barely going to acknowledge her own name. Volaris 14 hrs ago #3

roscoeroscoe

(1,819 posts)
1. In Earth 1, that's a good question
Wed Feb 11, 2026, 08:28 AM
14 hrs ago

Over there on Earth 2 [corruption] where Bondi resides, she'll just attack the questioner. They have no respect for anyone outside the cult/regime.

TheRickles

(3,244 posts)
2. Another question to ask her: "If my name appeared 38,000 times in the Epstein files, would you investigate me?"
Wed Feb 11, 2026, 08:37 AM
14 hrs ago

No way she'd answer, but the wriggling would be interesting to watch.

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