Donald Trump, left, with his girlfriend — and future wife — Melania Knauss, alongside Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell at Mar-a-Lago in February 2000.

Amid all of the Trump administration’s efforts to derail public calls for the release of more documents from the investigation into the predations and relations of the late financier Jeffrey Epstein, it’s hard to top this news: Todd Blanche, one of the many erstwhile defense attorneys for President Donald J. Trump now serving in high positions at the Justice Department, is planning to interview Ghislaine Maxwell, Mr. Epstein’s principal aide-de-camp in the sex trafficking of young women and girls.

It’s hard to imagine a more conflicted witness than Ms. Maxwell, who is appealing the 2021 conviction that earned her a 20-year prison sentence and is very much in the market for a presidential pardon or commutation. Such an executive action, of course, would likely secure her silence forevermore on any unsavory topics related to the long friendship of Mr. Epstein and Mr. Trump, who has teed up the notion that “the Epstein files” were somehow ginned up by Democrats.

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