Yesterday Ghislain Maxwell recieved a visit from a Trump envoy. Maxwell’s meeting with US Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche took place in Tallahassee, Florida, where she is serving a 20-year sentence for sex trafficking. According to the report from the BBC ‘Blanche said earlier this week that he planned to speak to Maxwell about any information she had on other people who might have been helped by Epstein to sexually abuse girls’. The souce of the BBC article is here .
This is the official reason for the Maxwell visit however transparency on the issue is certainly far from assured here because Todd Blanche isn’t entirely independent because he is an Official of the Trump government with close ties to President Donald Trump. It is likely that Trump orchestrated the whole matter and that Todd Blanche was officially picked by Trump to run an errand for him.
There may be some incentives for Trump to quash the Epstein matter by pretending that the process is open and forthright. However the matter that the interview took place not in open court but in a small private room without public access or video evidence. We have only the official wording to go on. We don’t even know if the topics that it was purposed to address were actually addressed or whether the meeting had a totally different agenda and purpose designed to silence Maxwell or even buy her off. If this is Trump’s attempt to be open and transparent on the matter well it leaves a lot to be desired and as such it is a catastrophic failure which convinces nobody. Let’s take another look at the matter from a more suspicous angle.
Currently President Donald Trump is claiming that the interviews were arranged primarily to quell what Donald Trump has described as the renewed focus on Epstein being the result of an effort by opposition Democrats to distract from his achievements in office. However most of the pressures to release the Epstein files has come from many Republicans in his own party and the democrats have largely left the matter alone to run it’s course. Pressure has been growing on US President Donald Trump’s officials to release files related to Epstein, the late convicted paedophile financier, after pledges made by Trump on the campaign trail last year.
It’s well known that Trump and Epstein had a relationship of some kind back in the day but details of that relationship are scant. Many people are hoping for new information to bring the exact nature of the relationship into clearer focus. Many are concerned that after the Election Trail Pledges made to release the Epstein files that so far Trump hasn’t agreed to do just that and progress on the matter has been slow. So far Trump has played down the requests and tried to deflect them by sugesting that the matter has no public interest other than that shown by the opposition democrats.
Ghislaine Maxwell holds the Trump cards in this instance if the President were to be implicated
Firstly it’s a far stretch of the imagination to imagine that Ghislaine Maxwell is going to give the US Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche all the information that he is requesting whilst serving a 20 year Jail Sentence imposed by the US Courts for Sex Trafficking. By any stretch of the imagination this is basically wishful thinking and is willfully simplistic to imagine that Ghislaine Maxwell is an honourable player. If she does have any information to implicate the President you would have to be an idiot to think that she would not use it for her own benefit: possibly even deny it for matters of her own safety. It’s more likely that Maxwell would only release such information when she would be in a position of safety and confidence. However there may be benefits to Maxwell for her co-operation which might include a reduction in her sentence or even a Pardon from the President as an incentive. As of 6/08/25 when I updated this post, Maxwell has already been transferred to a softer prison with open conditions. This in itself is very suspicious.
The whole fiasco smacks of smoke and mirrors possibly orchestrated by the President and maybe that’s why it has become so closed off to public scrutiny. If Trump were to be implicated by the information that Ghislaine Maxwell has about him or if there is anything contained in the Epstein files that could do him harm then the release of such information would be public suicide for this President. It is highly likey that a President under such circumstances would do all he could to obstruct the issue of truth.
This is only supposition of course but it based on a knowledge of human nature with a healthy dose of suspicion thrown in for good measure. Possibly there is stuff going on behind this meeting with Ghislaine Maxwell that we are not a party to. Ghislaine Maxwell is a convict. Convicts make deals with authority to improve their situation. That’s just life. Is Donald Trump trying to dupe a whole nation by implimenting a strategy of smoke and mirrors and playing the matter down to a level of insignificance? Or is he acting out a role that were to suggest that he was compliant with a process seeking to establish the truth? We are still left guessing what was the purpose of the meeting that took place yesterday in Tallahassee, Florida? Or was this meeting just a fact gathering mission to try and establish what Ghislain Maxwell knows that could possibly harm the President and if so did US Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche carry a message or an offer from the President intended to silence Ghislain Maxwell? It may even be that Ghislaine Maxwell herself summoned the envoy from Trump because she has something to disclose and an arrangement to make with the President. If she has anything then that exerts a huge amount of power and leverage over this President. She will no doubt be aware of the current level of media attention on the matter. Maybe she sees this as an opportune moment to play her Trump cards.
Update as of 23rd August 2025
There apparently is a tape of the interview between Ghislaine Maxwell and Trump’s envoy. However this tape really proves nothing at all because the interview could have been scripted and Ghislaine Maxwell asked to go along with the script in return for favours from the President. Mostly nowadays interviews are videoed.