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Ghislaine Maxwell, the convicted co-conspirator of the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, will refuse to answer questions in the House Oversight Committee's probe into Epstein and the Justice Department's handling of the case, Oversight Chair James Comer said.

Maxwell's legal team said she would invoke her Fifth Amendment rights if she sat with congressional investigators, the Kentucky Republican said in an interview. He also suggested it would be unlikely that his staff or lawmakers would sit down with Maxwell, who is in a federal prison camp in Texas, under the circumstances.

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When I don't want to incriminate myself or my President, I also always Plead the 5th Amendment!

So much for her lying for Trump under Oath... well, unless they 'resolve her Appeal', which is what she's asked the House for.

#1 | Posted by Corky at 2025-11-21 07:03 PM | Reply

Ghislaine Maxwell will Plead Fifth in House Epstein Probe

Just like Trump, at his trials for fraud, and rape, and defamation. Which means, according to 10 out of 10 MAGAts, that she must be innocent.

Donald Trump Pleads the Fifth After Saying Only Guilty People Do
www.newsweek.com
Ghislaine/Couch Effer 2028!

#2 | Posted by censored at 2025-11-21 07:37 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Ghislaine Maxwell never saw Trump in any inappropriate setting', interview transcript shows (August 2025)
www.theguardian.com

... In a post on X, Blanche said the materials were being released "in the interest of transparency", providing links to the transcript and to audio files.

The release includes documentation from a two-day interview conducted on 24 and 25 July. The materials comprise redacted transcripts for both days, along with multiple audio recordings " seven separate parts plus test recordings for day one, and four parts plus test recordings for day two.

The Department of Justice gave Maxwell limited immunity to allow her to talk about her criminal case, but did not promise anything in exchange for her testimony, according to the transcript that was released.

"The most important part of this agreement is that this isn't a cooperation agreement, meaning that by you meeting with us today, we're really just meeting," Blanche told Maxwell. He added: "I'm not promising to do anything." ...


#3 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-11-21 08:00 PM | Reply

From what I have heard, Ms Maxwell's attorney and Dep AG Blanche are friends.

So, if that is the case, what might have been worked or arranged before the recorders were turned on for this interview?

And, as a follow-up question, who authorized Ms Maxwell's move to a Club Fed prison, one that is not for sex offenders? There has been an usual silence within the "most transparent ever" Trump admin on that question.



#4 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-11-21 08:05 PM | Reply

@#4

In Seeking More on Epstein, Justice Dept.'s No. 2 Official Occupies Unusual Role (July 2025)
www.nytimes.com

... There was a little glitch last week when Todd Blanche, the deputy attorney general, filed an appearance in the case of Ghislaine Maxwell, the longtime associate of Jeffrey Epstein, in preparation for seeking the release of grand jury transcripts at the heart of her prosecution.

In what appeared to be a clerical error, Mr. Blanche was not listed on the docket as the No. 2 official in the Justice Department with an address in Washington. Rather, the address that appeared was for his private law firm in New York, the one he ran in his former guise as Donald J. Trump's defense lawyer.

The mix-up, while legally innocuous, nonetheless captured the unusual, Janus-faced position that Mr. Blanche now occupies as he assumes an increasingly central role in seeking to uncover more information about the Epstein scandal in an effort to douse the flames of outrage that are swirling about the case among the president's supporters.

This week, Mr. Blanche announced that he intends to personally meet with Ms. Maxwell's lawyer to see what, if any, additional light she can shed on Mr. Epstein who had a long and well-documented friendship with Mr. Trump. ...


[links in the article]


#5 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-11-21 08:09 PM | Reply

@#5

Forgot to include this excerpt ...

... Moreover, Mr. Blanche has a cozy personal relationship with David O. Markus, the lawyer representing Ms. Maxwell in the talks. After Mr. Blanche unsuccessfully defended Mr. Trump at his trial last year in Manhattan where he was convicted of falsifying business records to cover up a sex scandal, one of Mr. Blanche's first interviews was on Mr. Markus's podcast.

Around the same time, Mr. Markus took credit for a zinger that Mr. Blanche used during the trial against the star prosecution witness, Michael Cohen, who was himself one of Mr. Trump's former lawyers.

"I suggested that Todd Blanche call Michael Cohen the Greatest Liar of All Time or the GLOAT," Mr. Markus wrote on social media. "Today, Blanche used it in closing."

Complicating matters further, Mr. Blanche's meeting with Mr. Markus comes as Ms. Maxwell is appealing her conviction on charges of conspiring with Mr. Epstein for at least a decade to recruit, groom and sexually abuse girls. Just last week, in fact, the Justice Department urged the Supreme Court to reject that appeal. ...


#6 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-11-21 08:26 PM | Reply

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