The US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on Tuesday that plans an upcoming meeting with the ex -partner and accomplice of Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, to ask for his testimony about details around the case against the financial one accused of sex trafficking, which has caused controversy among the followers of President Donald Trump.
“For the first time, the DOJ approaches Ghislaine Maxwell to ask: What do you know?” He said in X Todd Blanche, the number two of the attorney general Pam Bondi, the white of the criticisms of the most staunch supporters of Trump, to whom they ask to fulfill their promise to publish all the evidence of the crimes of the late magnate.
Blanche has reported that by indication of Bondi he has contacted Maxwell’s lawyer, who turns a 20 -year sentence in prison for collaborating with Epstein. “I intend to meet her soon. No one is above the law and no track is discarded,” said American deputy attorney general.
In a statement also published in X, Blanche has warned that if Maxwell “has information about anyone who has committed crimes against victims, the FBI and the Department of Justice will listen to what she has to say.”
Maxwell’s lawyer, David Oscar Markus, has confirmed that the government has communicated with its client, who “will always testify truthfully,” he said to the chain CNN.
Shortly after the announcement, Trump said Tuesday at a press conference at the White House that he had no knowledge of the DAJ decision, but that seems to him an “appropriate” action at this time. He has also described the accusations against him for the handling of the case as the “continuation of the witch hunt” to which he claims to be subject.
The management of the Epstein case has created an unexpected crisis among the members of the Make America Great Again (Maga) movement of President Trump, after the FBI and the Department of Justice concluded in an investigation that El Financiero did not have a “famous” list of customers to blackmail and confirm their death by suicide in 2019.
The president’s supporters expressed their dissatisfaction with the administration of the Republican, who had promised in campaign to publish this list, an alleged agenda of Epstein accomplices that would include celebrities and influential politicians who have been for years the center of numerous theories of conspiracy of the ultra -right.
Trump, who has defended “the great work” of Bondi, has ordered the DOJ to disseminate all the “credible” tests of the case to placate to his base. “This DOJ does not shouted the awkward truths, nor the responsibility of seeking justice wherever the facts require it,” Blanche added on Tuesday, who has defended the validity of the findings of the DOJ and the FBI.
Specifically, he added that “in the recent exhaustive review of the FBI archives in the Epstein case, no evidence was discovered that allowed initiating an investigation against unheated third parties.”
The controversy about the case was fueled last week with the publication by The Wall Street Journal From an alleged letter of “obscene” content sent by Trump to Epstein during the years in which they were friends, something that the president has categorically denied saying the note is “false.”
