Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Thursday condemned the Justice Department’s meeting with Ghislaine Maxwell, a convicted sex offender and associate of disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.
“Sending Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, Todd Blanche, to interview Ghislaine Maxwell while she’s in prison, a woman who’s been convicted of abusing people, to offer some kind of corrupt deal so that she can exonerate Donald Trump just stinks of high corruption,” Schumer said in a video posted to the social platform X on Thursday.
Blanche met with Maxwell on Thursday in Tallahassee, Fla.
The Trump administration has been facing heat in the last few weeks over its handling of information related to Epstein from both Democrats and Republicans, with the saga throwing Congress into chaos.
On Wednesday, the House broke for its weeks-long August recess, shutting down a day earlier than planned as the chamber was stuck in a logjam over the Epstein controversy.
“It’s the first day of House Republicans fleeing town for their Epstein Recess. They high-tailed it out of here hoping to hide the story. But the story is growing louder by the hour with Trump and the administration’s lies,” Schumer said in another Thursday post on X.
The Hill has reached out to the White House and the House Republican Conference for comment.
When reached for comment on Schumer’s post about Maxwell, the Justice Department said it had none.
