Five unanswered questions around Trump and the Epstein saga
The controversy over Jeffrey Epstein rumbles on, despite President Trump’s efforts to put it behind him.
It’s been almost three weeks since a joint, unsigned memo from the FBI and the Department of Justice (DOJ) insisted “no incriminating ‘client list’” had been found among material related to Epstein. The memo also contended that there had been “no credible evidence found that Epstein blackmailed prominent individuals as part of his actions.”
The statement caused a firestorm – including among many Trump supporters, who had been primed to expect big revelations about Epstein, the sexual predator and disgraced financier who died, apparently of suicide, in 2019.
Attorney General Pam Bondi had said in a February Fox News interview that an Epstein client list was “sitting on my desk right now to review.”
In previous years, people very close to Trump, including his eldest son Don Jr. and Vice President Vance, had suggested there was a nefarious motive behind the failure to disclose more material about Epstein.
But even as the controversy moves on, there are many unanswered questions.
Here are five of the biggest.
What happens with Ghislaine Maxwell?
Developments around Maxwell, the British socialite and Epstein associate, have been among the most intriguing new developments.
Todd Blanche, the second highest ranking figure in the DOJ, met with Maxwell in Tallahassee, Fla., on Thursday and Friday.
Maxwell received a 20-year prison sentence in 2022 for conspiring with Epstein in his abuse.
The unusual move by Blanche, who served as one of Trump’s personal attorneys before ascending to his current role at the DOJ, has become a partisan flashpoint.
Democrats and other Trump critics are........
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