Shot, from CNN earlier this morning:
The Justice Department has an audio recording of the interview it conducted with Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell last month, and the administration is considering releasing a transcript of the interview publicly, three senior administration officials told CNN.
The existence of the recording has not been previously reported and comes at a time when the Trump administration is facing pressure to be more transparent with the information it has related to Epstein.
Administration officials are currently discussing whether to release the transcript of Maxwell’s interview with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, the three senior administration officials told CNN.
Chaser, from the Associated Press at roughly the same time:
The House Oversight Committee subpoenaed the Department of Justice on Tuesday for files in the sex trafficking investigation into Jeffrey Epstein. It’s part of a congressional probe that lawmakers believe may show links to President Donald Trump and other former top officials.
The Republican-controlled committee also issued subpoenas for depositions with former President Bill Clinton, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and eight former top law enforcement officials.
And for that matter, we also have more interesting context to these developments. Shortly after meeting with Blanche, Maxwell got transferred out of New Jersey and into Texas, where the living is easier for a sex trafficker to Elysium:
Ghislaine Maxwell has been transferred from a federal prison facility in Tallahassee, Florida, to the Bureau of Prisons at the Federal Prison Camp Bryan in Bryan, Texas, her attorney confirmed to Fox News Digital. …
Maxwell’s new life behind bars comes with an upgrade, with the FPC Bryan location serving as a minimum-security prison that also houses Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes and celebrity housewife Jen Shah. The prison has roughly 600 female inmates and is primarily home to non-violent offenders convicted of white collar crimes.
“Maxwell now has a dorm-style housing situation, rather than a cell,” Dave Aronberg, former Palm Beach County State Attorney, told Fox News Digital. “The new facility will have a lower staff-to-inmate ratio, and will either have a very limited fence or no fence at all.”
Clearly, Maxwell told Blanche and investigators something that interested them. The move to a lower-security work camp clearly indicates a level of fruitful cooperation, although how reliable it might be would be another question entirely. Maxwell is, after all, the top remaining figure in a sex-trafficking ring that victimized many underage girls, and the political blowback over that kind of treatment has to be considered when attempting to suss out the value of that cooperation.
The sudden interest in the Clintons and other “top law enforcement officials” by the House Oversight Committee has to raise eyebrows, too. Subpoenaing a former president and a former presidential nominee for congressional testimony is unusual, to say the least, and it’s not something done lightly as a fishing expedition. Coming as it does on the heels of the Maxwell interview, her transfer, and the suggestion that the Trump administration may make the Maxwell transcript public, it’s extremely difficult to chalk all of this up as a coincidence.
If these developments are linked, Democrats have good reason to worry. They have used the administration’s bungling on the Epstein files and case to argue that Trump is implicated and that Republicans are covering it up. If the Trump administration is planning to release the Maxwell transcript, we can assume that Maxwell isn’t revealing any information to support that — and we can also expect that the information released will likely backfire on Democrats that hyped up the case.
Did Maxwell implicate some Democrats in the sex trafficking she and Jeffrey Epstein committed? I guess we’ll find out sooner rather than later, but again, the real question will be whether we can trust anything she’s telling investigators at this point. She has nothing to lose — and a lot to gain — by manipulating investigators by telling them what they want to hear in order to either get a commutation or at least better living conditions. She already achieved one of those goals in almost record time. Let’s see what we got in that trade.
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