Stephen Colbert Torched Ghislaine Maxwell's Comments About Trump's Epstein Connection
They're hoping that the transcript of a recent interview with longtime Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell conducted by the Justice Department will do the trick ― never mind that Maxwell is serving a 20-year sex-trafficking sentence for grooming underage girls for Epstein, who was once close friends with the president.
'Obviously, every part of the story is just as shady as a cave,' Colbert said, noting that after the interview, Maxwell was suddenly moved to a minimum-security facility with fewer restrictions.
Now, Colbert said, there are reports that she told the Justice Department she never saw Trump do anything concerning.
'Well, then he's in the clear,' Colbert said sarcastically.
He offered a damning summary of what an endorsement from Maxwell would look like to the public.
'I know we all had our suspicions, but the convicted sex trafficker of underage girls didn't see anything that concerned her,' Colbert said. 'No red flags for Ghislaine during her decade-long career of underage sex trafficking. She said right here in the transcript: 'What was Donald Trump doing with Jeffrey Epstein? Nothing that concerned me, Ghislaine Maxwell, sex trafficker.''
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