MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell is continuous to solid doubt on President Donald Trump’s declare that he wasn’t conscious of intercourse trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell’s jail switch, which reportedly required a particular waiver.
“The only people who can believe that are the people who believe every word Donald Trump says,” O’Donnell mentioned Tuesday on “The Last Word.”
Maxwell was serving her 20-year sentence at a federal jail in Florida, however amid public furor over the Trump administration withholding recordsdata on her late confederate Jeffrey Epstein, she is in search of a deal — and was moved to a minimum-security facility in Texas final week.
Deputy Legal professional Normal Todd Blanche visited Maxwell in Florida final month after Trump infuriated his personal base by dismissing requires transparency on the Epstein case. Maxwell’s lawyer David Markus mentioned final week she could be “eager” to testify — in alternate for clemency.
Maxwell was transferred to the extra lenient jail in Texas inside days of this obvious supply.
When CNN reporter Kaitlan Collins requested Trump on Tuesday if he had personally authorised the switch or knew about it beforehand, the president mentioned, “I didn’t know about it at all. Nope. I read about it just like you did,” including that “it’s not a very uncommon thing.”
Nevertheless, O’Donnell didn’t purchase Trump’s denial. “The rules had to be changed” by Trump’s Justice Division to switch Maxwell, the MSNBC host identified, echoing CNN senior authorized analyst Elie Honig.
“It’s almost impossible that Ghislaine Maxwell just happened, by coincidence, to be moved to a better facility a week or so after she met with Todd Blanche,” Honig instructed Collins Tuesday.
“You would need specific authorization, you would need a waiver because Maxwell is … a convicted child sex offender,” Honig mentioned. “And the suggestion the president seemed to be making, that it just happens in the usual course of business, no, it does not.”
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O’Donnell beforehand wagered that Trump may pardon Maxwell completely if she testifies that he wasn’t concerned in her or Epstein’s crimes. On Tuesday, he reiterated his perception that Blanche, Trump’s former legal protection lawyer, visited her behind bars for exactly that purpose.
“That was obviously the mission Donald Trump’s criminal defense lawyer embarked on — get Ghislaine Maxwell to say nothing that would be harmful to Donald Trump,” O’Donnell mentioned Tuesday.
“And then Ghislaine Maxwell immediately got transferred from a serious federal prison in Florida meant to house, among others, sex criminals, to the easiest federal custody facility that exists in America for women, which is not meant to house sex criminals,” he added.
As O’Donnell famous on his present, maybe most telling is that sources — who’re accustomed to what Maxwell instructed Blanche throughout their assembly — have already instructed ABC that she “said nothing during the interview that would be harmful to President Donald Trump.”
Watch O’Donnell’s full monologue beneath:
