The United States Ministry of Justice announced on Tuesday, July 22, wishing to question Ghislaine Maxwell, former partner and complicit condemned from the sexual offender Jeffrey Epstein, to learn more about this case in which Donald Trump is accused of lacking transparency.
The US president and his government seek to respond to the anger of a part of his base, which accuses him of returning to his promises of transparency in this sensitive archive.
Ghislaine Maxwell sentenced in 2022 to 20 years in prison
The Republican billionaire criticized the controversy once again on Tuesday when denouncing in the Oval office a “series of witch fighters” of which he said he was a victim, after being sentenced last year in a case of payments hidden to a pornographic film star, and processed in three other cases.
Ghislaine Maxwell, former partner and collaborator of Jeffrey Epstein, was sentenced in 2022 to 20 years in prison for sexual trafficking, accused of having been the “Tout” of Jeffrey Epstein by recruiting between 1994 and 2004 minor girls to exploit them sexually.
“For the first time, the Ministry of Justice addresses Ghislaine Maxwell to ask: What do you know?” Wrong number two of the Ministry.
His lawyer, David Oscar Markus, confirmed that X was in contact with the Ministry, and added that “Ghislaine will always sincerely testify.”
The anger of Donald Trump’s supporters
Epstein’s issue resurfaced and took a political turn on July 7. That day, the US government assured that there was no evidence of the existence of a secret list of clients of this rich financial, accused of sexual trafficking in 2019 and that he found himself dead in his cell a few weeks later, before his judgment.
The announcement of the administration has caused part of the “Maga” movement of Donald Trump. The figures close to the movement have been campaigning for years to request the publication of documents supposedly hidden by the Government, which would contain revelations about the main personalities.
“If Ghislaine Maxwell has information about anyone who has committed crimes or crimes to the victims, the FBI and the Ministry of Justice will listen to what he has to say,” said Todd Blanche in the former personal lawyer of a Donald Trump.
He assures that he will meet with the old world he currently has in a prison in Florida “in the next few days.”
The announcement arises while the Ministry of Justice had opposed the appeal of Ghislaine Maxwell before the Supreme Court on July 14 to obtain the cancellation of the procedures that led to their conviction.
The threatened congress work
Obviously, annoying not to extinguish the dispute emanating from his own camp, Donald Trump accused last week “some stupid and idiots republicans” of playing his democratic opponents.
He also attacked the Wall Street Journal in defamation after the publication of an article that attributes a health letter addressed to Jeffrey Epstein.
The billionaire had a friendly notoriety of friendly relations with Jeffrey Epstein, like him, of the New York Jet as a whole, but none of the elements attests to Donald Trump’s representable acts in relation to the financial.
Beyond the Trump administration, Epstein’s issue also threatens to derail the work of Congress.
The House of Representatives is paralyzed this week for the attempt of an elected Republican, supported by the Democrats, to force a vote on a resolution that asks for the publication of judicial documents on the fallen financial.
Denunciating “political maneuvers”, the republican leader of the Basseb Chamber Mike Johnson, claims to block this vote, saying during a press point on Tuesday that a publication in the block would endanger victims of crimes reluctant to Jeffrey Epstein.
Before paralysis, Republican officials decided to send elected vacation officials on Wednesday throughout the month of August, one day earlier than expected. Previously, a commission of the House of Representatives had approved the motion of a chosen republican destined to listen to Ghislaine Maxwell but unintentionally at the moment at the place or date of this audience under oath.
Source: BFM TV
