A Trump Justice Department official was caught on tape claiming that Ghislaine Maxwell was moved to a minimum security prison camp “to keep her quiet.”
Maxwell, who is serving a 20-year prison sentence for her role in recruiting and trafficking minors for sex, was being held at a low-security facility in Tallahassee, Florida.
Maxwell was moved to the prison camp in Texas a week after meeting with former Trump personal attorney and Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche.
Transcripts from their interview show Maxwell showering Trump with praises and denying that she ever saw him engaged in any form of inappropriate sexual behavior.
In a clip published Thursday by James O’Keefe, a MAGA activist and Project Veritas founder, Joseph Schnitt, the acting deputy chief of special operations at the DOJ claims Maxwell was moved to keep her quiet.
Maxwell was “transferred to a minimum security prison too recently, which is against BOP policy because she’s a convicted sex offender. They’re offering her something to keep her quiet,” Schnitt claimed.
He also said that Trump officials are going though the Epstein files and “they’ll redact every Republican or conservative person in those files, leave all the liberal, Democratic people in those pages.”
DOJ responded to the video saying that Schnitt had “no role in the Department’s internal review of Epstein materials.”
The DOJ also released an email allegedly from Schnitt denying that he had any knowledge about the prison transfer or the administration’s handling of the case.
“The comments I made were my own personal comments on what I’ve learned in the media and not from anything I’ve done at or learned via work,” Schnitt wrote. “I have no knowledge of the circumstances surrounding Ms. Maxwell other than what is reported in the news.”
