Notes on the day
/[I’m leaving these notes on thoughts and observations here, not so much as a blog post but to give them a place of record for today July 26, 2025.]
“Let’s be clear here. Ghislaine Maxwell didn’t testify with Todd Blanche. She negotiated.”
FACT #1. Ghislaine Maxwell is a convicted child sex offender, guilty of child sex trafficing.
FACT #2. Her partner in crime was Jeffrey Epstein, also convicted and dead by suicide while under close watch in jail.
FACT #3. Epstein and Maxwell were close to Donald Trump and spent time together. The extent of the relationship is now under scrutiny and debate.
Ghislaine Noelle Marion Maxwell is a British former socialite and a convicted sex offender. In 2021, she was found guilty of child sex trafficking and other offences in connection with the deceased financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The following year, she was sentenced in federal court in New York City to 20 years of imprisonment. --Wikipedia
FACT #4. As a part of "being transparent" the Trump administration sent Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche to interview Maxell.
President Trump’s former personal attorney-turned-Justice Department deputy of Trump's justice department to interview Maxwell in prison.
FACT #5. The only people present for the interview were Maxwell, Blanche and her attorney David Markus, who has been representing her during her legal proceedings, including her appeal against her conviction for sex trafficking.
FACT #6. Todd Blanche and David Markus are friends.
Blanche announced that he would initiate talks with a lawyer for Ghislaine Maxwell, disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein’s accomplice. Left unmentioned: The lawyer, David Oscar Markus, happens to be a friend of Blanche.
“I know a lot of people that have worked with you. I know a lot of people who know you very well,” Blanche told Markus last year while appearing for an hourlong sitdown on his podcast. “I now consider you a friend and someone who I know pretty well,” Blanche added. “You are—by far, are—the best out there.” --The Hill
FACT #7. There were no other witnesses to the interviews. Only Maxwell and the two lawyer friends were present.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer writing on X: “Under no circumstances should anyone from Trump’s DOJ be allowed to privately interview Ghislaine Maxwell."
FACT #8. Neither the justice department or Trump have announced that there will be interviews granted to the victims of the pedophiles deeds.
President Donald Trump did not rule out the possibility of pardoning Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell on Friday, July 25, 2025—saying he hadn’t “thought about” the possibility but is “allowed” to pardon her—as Maxwell’s interview with Justice Department prosecutors this week has sparked new questions about whether the Trump administration could offer her a pardon in exchange for exonerating the president from Epstein’s crimes. --Forbes
FACT #9. Would Trump actually consider something so repulsive and clearly self-serving as to pardon her? Of course he would. He's given pardons to criminals and cop killers.
FACT #10. Surely, justice would demand, that if Trump were to give Maxwell a pardon or any consideration at all like a reduced sentence, he would be included as an accomplice or co-conspirator to those crimes.
Remember on January 2016, presidential candidate Donald Trump caused controversy when he stated the following during a campaign rally in Iowa: "I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn't lose voters."
Obviously he's right about that--given what we've seen. But surely knowingly participating in sex trafficing of minor girls would be a bridge too far.