Blanche interviewed Maxwell in Tallahassee, Fl., on July 24 and 25. Days after the interview, Maxwell was transferred from a low-security federal prison in Florida to an all-women minimum-security prison northeast of Houston called Federal Prison Camp Bryan. The Department of Justice did not respond to a request for comment for this story.

The contents of the emails immediately raised questions among some Administration critics about whether Blanche had pressed Maxwell enough during the interview. Lawyer George Conway wrote on X that he believes the emails show that Blanche’s questioning Maxwell “was either (a) completely incompetent; or (b) intentionally crafted not to elicit facts incriminating Trump.” Blanche replied on X that when he interviewed Maxwell, “law enforcement didn’t have the materials Epstein’s estate hid for years and only just provided to Congress. Stop talking. It’s unbecoming.”

Yet the Maxwell interview raised eyebrows separate from the recent emails. Cheryl Bader, a professor at Fordham Law and a former federal prosecutor, says several aspects of the Justice Department’s handling of Maxwell were out of the norm. It was “unusual” to have such a senior Justice Department official conducting such an interview, she says, noting that typically the prosecutor who handled the case would be involved in such an interview.

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