The release of Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche's interview with convicted Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell only proves what a dishonest and self-serving exercise all of this was for the Trump administration, former federal prosecutor Kristy Greenberg told MSNBC's "The Weeknight" panel on Friday evening.

"You can't escape the obvious here," said anchor Michael Steele. "When all the documents, if they ever do come out, whatever, we'll get to what's in the house, what they receive today when all of this stuff starts to flesh out and Donald Trump's name is on every other frickin page at that point, [they] so poisoned the well with, with trivial crap like this. Where does that leave us? Where does this all go?"

"So I think they very intentionally put this out to reframe the narrative," said Greenberg, arguing that it's part of the same strategy that saw them bringing out former Attorney General William Barr to claim he never saw anything that implicated Trump in the Epstein investigation — despite him never having been briefed on the case.

"All of it is designed to say, nothing to see here, you don't need to worry about what's mentioned about Trump in the file," said Greenberg. "And I don't expect that you are going to see that being produced to the House ... what's [Oversight Chair James] Comer going to do? He's not going to enforce the subpoena. So they hope this will frame the narrative, people will be happy with what she's saying. I don't see how."

"And the real question ... for the Department of Justice is, do you believe this garbage?" she continued. "You put this out there, you interviewed her. You didn't stop her at any point and say you didn't believe her. Do you believe this or are you vouching for her credibility? Have you done anything to corroborate her? Because the victims are corroborated. They got a conviction at trial when they said she abused them. And when they said he facilitated her abuse, that was proven at trial. What proof is there that she's telling the truth? Why are you promoting this?"

"I mean, there are so many questions that Congress should be hauling [Blanche's] butt before Congress to testify about why he conducted this interview in the first place, what he's done to corroborate her, and why he's made it public," Greenberg added.

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