The Predator’s Bargain

Trump’s DOJ Is cutting deals with Ghislaine Maxwell while her victims are silenced all over again

It’s not every day the Deputy Attorney General of the United States leaves Washington to personally negotiate with a convicted sex trafficker. But that’s exactly what’s happening this week and why Todd Blanche, Donald Trump’s former criminal defense attorney turned DOJ second-in-command, flew to Florida for a clandestine meeting with Ghislaine Maxwell at the federal courthouse in Tallahassee.

Not at her prison. Not through a federal intermediary. In person. In secret. With her personal attorney, David Oscar Markus, a longtime friend of Blanche’s who once almost represented Trump himself.

You couldn’t script a more obvious abuse of power if you tried. And yet, this isn’t a satire. It’s the current reality of the Trump DOJ, which appears far more interested in shielding Donald Trump from the Epstein scandal than in protecting the survivors who were trafficked, assaulted, and discarded like “used tissues,” as Maxwell once called them.