00:01Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche met this week with Epstein's accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell,
00:06who is serving 20 years in prison for sex trafficking.
00:10After the meeting, Maxwell's attorney indicated to reporters that he hopes President Trump will give her a pardon.
00:16What do you think of that idea?
00:18Will it be a mistake for President Trump to pardon Maxwell?
00:21And do you think that she's credible?
00:23I don't know enough about Maxwell or the conversation to even weigh in on that.
00:32But I'll go back to what you're saying, but it wasn't true.
00:35The case was sealed in 2009.
00:37That's absolutely true.
00:38It was heard in 2008.
00:40It was sealed in 2009.
00:42The point is that the sweetheart deal, which was completed in 2008, was under the Bush administration, U.S. Attorney Alex Acosta.
00:51That's why Alex Acosta resigned in the first Bush administration, because the Miami Herald had written this story in 2018 about how Epstein got away with so much.
01:03And then in 2019, the U.S. Attorney under President Trump, Jeff Berman, in the Southern District of New York, then brought charges against him.
01:12So, I mean, there is stuff to say that you could point to that say, like, President Trump did this or President Trump did that.
01:17And remember, in 2019, President Trump and his administration called for it to be unsealed at that time, too.
01:23It went silent, and not a word was said during the Biden administration.
01:27Not a word.
01:27Nothing was said during the Biden administration.
01:29People can look it up.
01:30The sweetheart deal was 2008 during the George W. Bush administration.
01:34But I always appreciate your comment on the show.
