"Former federal prosecutor Elie Honig blasted Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche for acting like Donald Trump's private civil lawyer when gathering utterly useless testimony from convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell. Honig told CNN's Smerconish on Saturday that the interview transcript released by the DOJ on Friday exposed Blanche's line of questioning on the infamous Epstein birthday book for what it was an effort to exonerate Trump and help him win his defamation suit against The Wall Street Journal for reporting on it."
"If I was a prosecutor and got a look at this transcript or had some sense this is what she'd say, I'd say, Don't even waste the time. She's lying,' Honig said. It seems she gives a completely non-credible account of the world, and she doesn't help us implicate anyone else. So I'm not willing to buy into this wild fantasy world that Ghislaine Maxwell says."
Elie Honig sharply criticized Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche for extensive questioning of Ghislaine Maxwell that focused on the Epstein birthday book and appeared aimed at clearing Donald Trump. The released DOJ transcript shows repeated exchanges where Maxwell claimed she assembled the book and did not recall asking Trump for a letter. The line of questioning produced testimony characterized as utterly useless, offering little credible evidence or leads to implicate others. A White House call cited the birthday book testimony as a principal takeaway, reinforcing perceptions that the questioning served partisan or civil litigation interests rather than prosecutorial aims.
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