Hi there, everyone. It's 4 o'clock in the East. The American people may never know,

like really know, what was said, what was revealed, what was asked, and what was answered today

within the four walls of a courthouse conference room in Tallahassee, Florida. And therein lies the problem. Because for the second

time in two days, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche blurred the lines between his old job and his

new one, with his role at the Justice Department on one hand and his former role as Donald

Trump's personal attorney on the other. Blanche departed his interview with Jeffrey

Epstein's accomplice, Galane Maxwell, a short time ago. Glein Maxwell's attorney, David Oscar Marcus,

said that at no point over the last two days did his client Maxwell refuse to answer a question.

But here again, we have to take his word for it. It's not just that

the rest of us are without any transcripts or recordings or witnesses in the course of the

Trump administration's effort at fact-finding, if that's what we're calling it. It's that it also

feels like we're without any reliable narrators.

After all, Donald Trump, a man with a pre-existing adversarial relationship with the

truth and the press, appears to be growing less forthright on this topic by the day.

Remember when the Wall Street Journal, exactly one week ago today,

reported that Trump's sketch scribbled and signed a letter for inclusion in Jeffrey Epstein's

50th birthday book, Trump's reaction, said it was fake. He sued the publication, along with a number

of individuals, including Rupert Murdoch.

Today, the New York Times is reporting this, quote,

Trump's name appeared on a contributor list for a book celebrating Epstein's birthday,

evidence that he participated in the collection, even as he denied that he signed a sexually

suggestive note and drawing, end quote. Now, again, these stories are not suggesting or providing evidence that Donald Trump

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