Todd Blanche announced that the Justice Department would release transcripts of his two-day interview with Ghislaine Maxwell, including every word except victims' names. Blanche stated nothing was removed or hidden. James Comer said the Justice Department sent a large tranche of Epstein investigative documents in response to a congressional subpoena and praised justice officials and Donald Trump. Comer said the Trump DOJ is moving at a pace far faster than anything produced by the Biden DOJ. Trump voiced support for openness and said he supports keeping the files open. Critics say the disclosures omit probing questions and ignore victims' voices, suggesting a reluctance to pursue dangerous truths.
As deputy US attorney Todd Blanche announced last week that the justice department would release transcripts of his interview with Ghislaine Maxwell, he described this disclosure as being in the interest of transparency. Except for the names of victims, every word is included. Nothing removed. Nothing hidden, Blanche also said of his two-day sit down with Maxwell, who was convicted sex trafficking in relation to Jeffrey Epstein's abuse of teenage girls.
That same day, James Comer, the House oversight committee chair, said that the justice department had sent a large tranche of Epstein investigative documents in response to a congressional subpoena. Comer praised justice officials and Donald Trump, saying: The Trump DoJ is moving at a pace far faster than anything ever produced by the Biden DoJ. Trump, who has faced extensive political blowback over his administration's handling of the Epstein files, also voiced support for transparency. I'm in support of them keeping it open.
While those supportive of Trump have touted these actions as a show of openness, many others have pointed to the questions left unasked and the people who have not been asked anything at all as indicating that these disclosures about Epstein were more of a show than any real push for truth. For them the Maxwell transcripts, and the ignoring of victim's voices, are not a sign of openness; they are a sign of a reluctance to pursue any potentially dangerous truth.
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