Trump’s new ‘fixer’ spends two days interviewing Epstein accomplice

A top official within the US Justice Department met with Ghislane Maxwell twice this week to discuss her role in Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking operation.

But not just any official: Trump’s new fixer, US Deputy Attorney Todd Blanche. Blanche entered Trump’s orbit in 2023, when he started his own law firm with the sole purpose of representing Trump in his criminal trials. Blanche is one of a number of the president’s private attorneys he’s brought into his administration, including Emil Bove, who has been nominated for a lifetime judicial appointment, and US Solicitor General John Sauer.

The appointments are beginning to blur the line between public servant and private attorney — even for Blanche, who accidentally filed his request to interview Maxwell using his law firm’s address in New York. The task itself is an unusual one for the DOJ’s deputy attorney, but fell to Blanche after the department fired Maurene Comey, one of the chief prosecutors on Maxwell’s case.

“Sending Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, Todd Blanche, to interview Ghislane 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,” said Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer.

Like Trump’s old fixer, Michael Cohen, Blanche’s main job consists of cleaning up the president’s messes. He successfully delayed criminal proceedings in the three cases against Trump in 2024, with two cases ultimately dropped and the third ending in a conviction without consequences. His efforts in the Epstein saga appear to be more of the same; he’s turned a request to unseal grand jury transcripts from the Epstein investigation into a drawn-out back-and-forth with the courts, and the hourslong, private meetings with Maxwell and her attorney is believed to be an opportunity for Trump and Maxwell to cut a deal.

“If Todd Blanche, now running the DOJ and formerly Trump’s personal lawyer, is personally meeting with Ghislaine Maxwell in prison, it suggests something far outside the norm,” said former federal prosecutor Duncan Levin. “This isn’t some career prosecutor following protocol. It’s a direct line from Trump’s inner circle to one of the most infamous inmates in the country.”

The meetings come after government agents spent weeks tracking mentions of Trump in the Epstein files on a spreadsheet, and reporting from the Wall Street Journal illustrating the close friendship Epstein had with Trump and former President Bill Clinton. The revelation reaffirms that Epstein’s reach spans across the political spectrum, and Blanche — who has asked Maxwell about at least 100 people — could offer a deal that involves releasing the names of Trump’s opponents who are tied to Epstein’s sex trafficking, while omitting those of the president and his allies.

This post first appeared in Below The Beltway, a COURIER Substack by Camaron Stevenson.