Last Updated on July 27, 2025 by ThePublic
There’s something rotten at the heart of the Justice Department, and its stench is growing stronger by the day.
When Ghislaine Maxwell, the convicted trafficker and partner in Jeffrey Epstein’s decades-long abuse ring, sat down for a secret two-day interview with the Department of Justice, it wasn’t a seasoned sex crimes prosecutor or FBI interrogator asking the questions. It was Todd Blanche, Donald Trump’s former personal defense attorney, the same man who helped bury scandals, silence voices, and defend Trump in his 2024 criminal trials.
Let that sink in.
A man who built his career keeping Trump’s alleged crimes under wraps is now second-in-command at the Department of Justice, and he’s the one handpicking what to ask Epstein’s closest associate, and what not to ask.
This isn’t justice.
This is Hush 2.0.
Blanche’s History of Silencing Scandal
Before becoming Deputy Attorney General, Todd Blanche was Trump’s legal shield, defending him in the 2024 New York hush-money trial and the classified documents case. He argued that criminal charges were “political warfare,” and he wasn’t wrong, he was the general fighting that war.
Blanche’s strategy in court was simple: deny, delay, distract, and above all, protect the man at the center of the scandal from public exposure. It worked then. And now, with the full weight of the DOJ behind him, it appears to be working again.
The Maxwell Interview: A Scripted Farce?
Maxwell’s recent DOJ interview spanned two days and included “information” about up to 100 individuals in Epstein’s orbit. That sounds like progress, until you realize the entire meeting:
- Was held behind closed doors
- Lacked sworn agents or formal transcripts
- Was not attended by career prosecutors from her own trial
- And was led by a man with deep personal ties to Trump, one of Epstein’s longtime associates
Maxwell’s lawyer bragged that she answered everything “without invoking privilege.” But without an independent record, how do we know what was asked? More importantly, what wasn’t?
Pattern Recognition: Cover-Up in Real Time
The parallels between Blanche’s past hush work and his current DOJ role are not coincidences, they are blueprints:
| THEN (2024) | NOW (2025) |
|---|---|
| Hid hush-money payments to porn star | Quietly shields Epstein client names |
| Suppressed courtroom evidence | Avoids subpoenas for Epstein documents |
| Protected Trump’s political ambitions | Oversees interviews that could implicate him |
This isn’t blind justice. This is strategic omission, a playbook designed to neutralize threats to power before they reach the public.
The Smell of a Fix
Former prosecutors and legal experts are sounding alarms. CBS News and The Guardian have documented concerns from DOJ veterans who call Blanche’s role “unorthodox”, “suspect,” and possibly “obscene malpractice.” Interviews like this are normally handled by case prosecutors, not political appointees with no investigative background in sex trafficking.
Let’s say the quiet part loud: Blanche has no business interrogating Ghislaine Maxwell.
If she names Trump, or anyone close to him, it’s not going into the record. If she makes a deal, the public may never know the terms. If she lies or deflects, no one’s there to challenge her.
Why? Because the man who once covered Trump’s scandals is now perfectly positioned to cover them again, with government authority and zero oversight.
What Are They Hiding?
It’s no longer a question of whether the DOJ is protecting powerful people, it’s how blatantly they’re doing it.
- Blanche was sent to speak to a convicted trafficker who has nothing left to lose.
- The FBI was reportedly told not to investigate “third parties” in the Epstein case.
- Congress’s efforts to subpoena unredacted documents and Maxwell herself are being stonewalled.
- And still, there’s no criminal action against anyone Maxwell or Epstein trafficked girls to.
This isn’t justice delayed. It’s justice disappeared.
Final Word
Blanche wasn’t appointed to clean up Epstein’s mess. He was appointed to sanitize it. To protect names. To suppress records. To continue doing, under color of law, what he did as a private lawyer: keep Trump’s secrets buried.
This isn’t just hush money.
This is Hush 2.0, and it reeks of corruption at the highest levels of power.
Demand answers. Demand transparency. Demand a Justice Department that works for the people, not the predators.