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A new report is raising fresh questions about the credibility of Jeffrey Epstein co-conspirator, Ghislaine Maxwell. On Thursday, Bloomberg News reported that it had obtained more than 18,000 emails from Epstein’s personal Yahoo account, including hundreds between Maxwell and the disgraced former financier.
The emails, which have not been independently obtained or verified by MSNBC or NBC News, appear to undermine Maxwell’s repeated attempts to distance herself from Epstein during her two-day interview with Todd Blanche, Donald Trump’s deputy attorney general, in July.
MSNBC Legal Correspondent Lisa Rubin joined “The Weeknight” on Thursday to discuss the new report. According to Rubin, concerns over Maxwell’s credibility aren’t new. “If you listen to victims and their lawyers, if you listen to prosecutors, Ghislaine Maxwell’s credibility has long been in doubt,” she pointed out.
However, she said these concerns have a renewed importance in light of Blanche’s interview and ongoing questions over whether the administration could grant Maxwell a pardon.
The MSNBC legal correspondent added that she was not surprised by the findings of the Bloomberg report. “We should congratulate our friends at Bloomberg on that reporting — 18,000 emails is nothing to sneeze at, and I sure would love to get my hands on them and see them — but should we be surprised that Ghislaine Maxwell wasn’t telling Todd Blanche the complete truth? Absolutely not.”
Rubin said the Bloomberg News report is also proof that, despite the administration's best efforts to delay the release of files related to Epstein, information is still likely to make its way into the public record.
“We can expect more of these things to come out — not through a congressional investigation, not through the DOJ’s unwillingness to share it with us — but because there are people like Jason Leopold and his team at Bloomberg, and Julie K. Brown at the Miami Herald, and perhaps even some folks here at MSNBC, who will uncover more of that truth,” Rubin said.
You can watch Rubin’s full analysis in the clip at the top of the page.