President Trump stated Tuesday that he didn’t learn about Jeffrey Epstein affiliate Ghislaine Maxwell’s latest prison transfer beforehand.
“Have been you conscious of and did you personally approve the jail switch for Ghislaine Maxwell that your Justice Division —” Trump was requested by CNN’s Kaitlan Collins.
“I did not learn about it in any respect, nope. I examine it identical to you probably did,” the president reduce in, including later that the switch was “not a really unusual factor.”
Maxwell was quietly moved from a federal prison in Florida to at least one in Texas, a Bureau of Prisons official advised The Hill final week.
“Ghislaine Maxwell is within the custody of the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) on the Federal Jail Camp (FPC) Bryan in Bryan, Texas,” BOP official Benjamin O’Cone stated in an electronic mail to The Hill.
In latest weeks, the Trump administration has been going through intense backlash over the way it has dealt with data associated to convicted intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein. The backlash has come from each MAGA devoted and left-wing progressives.
Maxwell, who was convicted of intercourse trafficking and is at the moment behind bars for a 20-year jail sentence, has just lately been interesting her case to the Supreme Court docket.
Victims of Epstein questioned the Trump administration’s motives for seeking to unseal grand jury testimony in letters to the courtroom unveiled on Monday.
The victims wrote to U.S. District Decide Richard Berman to talk up for themselves in addition to different victims and implied weren’t being sufficiently thought-about within the authorities’s effort to make the papers public.