Elie Honig Trashes Ghislane Maxwell’s ‘Utterly Useless’ Testimony: ‘Wild Fantasy World’

Former federal prosecutor Elie Honig blasted Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche for acting like Donald Trump’s “private civil lawyer” when gathering “utterly useless” testimony from convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell.

Honig told CNN’s Smerconish on Saturday that the interview transcript released by the DOJ on Friday exposed Blanche’s line of questioning on the infamous Epstein birthday book for what it was — an effort to exonerate Trump and help him win his defamation suit against The Wall Street Journal for reporting on it.

“Why would you really even care about that birthday book? I mean, you ask a question or two, I guess, because it could establish a relationship between Epstein and Trump,” Honig said. “But they go on for pages and pages where Maxwell says, ‘Yes, I put it together. No, I don’t remember ever asking Trump for a letter.'”

Host Michael Smerconish interrupted to argue that Blanche “was on a mission” to clear Trump of having any deep involvement with Jeffrey Epstein, who killed himself in jail while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.

“Todd Blanche is in there almost as Donald Trump’s private civil lawyer,” Honig maintained.

Smerconish agreed, saying, “You know, there was a phone call made from Florida to the White House at the end of day one of testimony where the president says, ‘Okay, what did you learn?’ And at the top of the list is, Blanche says, ‘Well, I got her on the record on the birthday book.'”

Honig called Maxwell’s testimony “utterly useless,” and scoffed at her insistence that she had always hoped “to come forward” to testify in Epstein’s cases.

“If I was a prosecutor and got a look at this transcript or had some sense this is what she’d say, I’d say, ‘Don’t even waste the time. She’s lying,'” Honig said. “It seems she gives a completely non-credible account of the world, and she doesn’t help us implicate anyone else. So I’m not willing to buy into this wild fantasy world that Ghislaine Maxwell says.”

He added, “She really does feel genuinely aggrieved. It’s astonishing, Michael, when you read the transcript, this is a person who committed and has been convicted of horrific crimes, and she believes she is just purely a victim. She feels horribly sorry for herself.”

Following her interview, Maxwell was moved from a federal prison in Florida to a minimum-security prison camp in Texas to serve her 20-year sentence.

Watch the clip above via CNN.