Lawrence: Trump is making Epstein co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell’s wish come true

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🗓️ 5 August 2025

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Tonight on The Last Word: Ghislaine Maxwell is moved to a lower-security prison after meeting with the Trump Justice Department. And Texas Democrats flee the state to block a gerrymandered GOP map. Andrew Weissmann, Texas Rep. Mihaela Plesa, and Texas Rep. Erin Zwiener join Lawrence O’Donnell.

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0:00.0	Well, Donald Trump, who meddles in every aspect of the federal government that he can, including now the firing of the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics for telling the truth about job statistics, claims that he, Donald Trump, has no idea why his personal criminal defense lawyer went to a Florida federal prison to talk to an old friend of Donald Trump's convicted sex trafficker and rapist, abuser of children,
0:29.2	Geline Maxwell. We've all seen the photographs of Donald Trump hanging out with Gleine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein during the Epstein and Maxwell reign of terror
0:39.3	against more than a thousand children.
0:43.5	Donald Trump just now has no idea why his former criminal defense lawyer, who he installed
0:49.7	as the number two at the Justice Department, became the very first deputy attorney general in history
0:55.5	to go to a prison to interview a convicted sex trafficker who the president of the United States
1:04.0	personally wishes well. Donald Trump has said repeatedly, I wish her well when When his old friend, the convicted sex trafficker,
1:13.3	Gilane Maxwell, has been brought up to him in interviews.
1:16.0	Donald Trump is, of course, in a position to make his own wish come true.
1:21.5	Donald Trump could, for example, pardon.
1:24.1	Gillane Maxwell just completely erase her conviction and release her from prison, or he could just
1:28.6	commute her sentence and release her from prison. But that might be something that has to wait
1:34.5	until Donald Trump's last day in office because it could really hurt Republicans running
1:39.2	for re-election next year who have devoted their political lives to the support of Donald Trump,
1:43.6	and it could certainly hurt badly in the next presidential campaign.
1:47.3	But if Donald Trump lets Delane Maxwell out of prison on his last day in office in exchange for
1:54.3	her publicly insisting that she and Jeffrey Epstein were never really friends with Donald
2:00.3	Trump and that Donald Trump knew
2:01.6	nothing about anything illegal that they ever did, well, the last day of the presidency would
2:07.2	be the time for him to do that. And then Donald Trump's wishing her well will really and fully
2:14.3	come true. But because Donald Trump's wish is even more urgent than that,
2:19.5	a week after Donald Trump's criminal defense lawyer met with Galane Maxwell,
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