Maxwell interview ‘raises more questions than answers', says Laura Loomer

Telegraph

5 days ago

The Trump administration's decision to interview Ghislaine Maxwell behind bars raises more questions than it answers, one of the US president's most loyal foot soldiers said.
Maxwell, who is serving a 20-year prison sentence in Florida for procuring underage girls for her paedophile ex-boyfriend, Jeffrey Epstein, was interviewed for a day and a half by Todd Blanche, the US deputy attorney general, on Friday.
Laura Loomer, one of Donald Trump's closest allies and a prominent figure in the Maga movement, has questioned why Maxwell was interviewed by the Department of Justice (DoJ) after it announced it would not release any more files relating to Epstein or investigate anyone else connecting to his sex trafficking offences.
'Anybody who's a decent lawyer, especially you United States attorney general, understands you're supposed to conduct your witness and suspect interviews before you decide to close a case. So how does this even work?' Ms Loomer told The Telegraph.
'Are they trying to tell us that over, over the last several years, since this has been a scandal and since Ghislaine has been in prison that they never once had the DOJ or the FBI interview her? Is that what they're trying to say?'
The DoJ's decision earlier this month not to release any further files on Epstein prompted a massive backlash, landing Mr Trump in the biggest political crisis of his second term.
Ms Loomer said Pam Bondi, the US attorney general, must be fired for going back on a promise to release all evidence the government collected during its investigations into the paedophile.
'I think that it's obvious that the Epstein debacle is a sore point, a sore subject for the administration,' she said.
'There's no denying the fact that 'Pam Blondie', as I call her, created a PR crisis for the administration. She screwed up.'
Conspiracy theorists have long cast doubt on the official story that Epstein died by suicide in a jail cell in 2019. They believe he was murdered in order to protect a powerful cabal of paedophiles.
When asked if she would release an Epstein's client list, Ms Bondi previously said it was sitting on her desk for review.
Miss Loomer has been one of the loudest voices calling for the administration to reveal everything it has on Epstein.
She said the buck stops with Ms Bondi for apparently confirming the existence of a client list.
Mr Trump has spent the past five days in Scotland, where his focus has been on golf and European trade talks.
However, he could not escape questions about his relationship with Epstein. He laid out for the first time why he fell out with the billionaire about 20 years ago.
'For years, I wouldn't talk to Jeffrey Epstein. I wouldn't talk because he did something that was inappropriate,' he told reporters during a meeting with Sir Keir Starmer, the prime minister.
'He stole people that work for me. I said, 'don't ever do that again'. He did it again, and I threw him out of the place, persona non grata. I threw him out, and that was it.'
Mr Trump and Epstein, who first met moving in the same wealthy circles in New York and Florida, bonded over their love of beautiful women and the high life.
The financier is even rumoured to have introduced Mr Trump to his third wife, Melania, a claim the first lady denies.
Their relationship is said to have taken a turn in 2004, as they both went up against each other to buy up Palm Beach properties.