Todd Blanche Says Questioning Ghislaine Maxwell Was to Give Her a Chance to Speak Out, ‘Impossible’ to Determine Her Credibility

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BLANCHE: "It‘s an impossible question to answer. I met with her for two days. To determine whether a witness is credible. Takes weeks and weeks and weeks. I asked her questions that I believe all of us wanted answered, and she answered them. She answered them — I didn‘t — the point of the interview was not for me to pressure-test every single answer she gave. Of course not. The point of the interview was to give her an opportunity to speak, which nobody had done before. And so she had been — she had been in prison for many, many years, and she had offered to speak on many, many occasions, and she was never given that opportunity. And so what I did is I gave her that opportunity to speak. It was recorded. My questions were there. And whether her answers were credible or truthful, there‘s a lot of information out there about Mr. Epstein, about her and whether what she said is completely wrong or completely right or a little of both. It's for — that‘s the reason why we released the transcript. That‘s why we were transparent about the questions I asked and the answers she gave, is because it‘s really up to the American people to determine what they believe that her answers were credible or whether they found her not credible."