Conservative attorney George Conway detonated a political grenade on Thursday, unloading on Trump’s Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche after Blanche tried brushing off Conway’s criticism of his interview with convicted Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell.
Conway had accused Blanche’s July questioning of Maxwell of being so soft it was either “(a) completely incompetent; or (b) intentionally crafted not to elicit facts incriminating Trump.” He wrapped the attack with: “Either way, he is not fit to serve as Deputy Attorney General of the United States.”
Blanche fired back with a jab at Conway’s credibility: “You’ve never been confused for a trial lawyer, and these kinds of posts explain why.” He insisted he couldn’t press Maxwell harder because investigators supposedly didn’t have key documents yet. “When I interviewed Maxwell, law enforcement didn’t have the materials Epstein’s estate hid for years and only just provided to Congress,” Blanche wrote. “Stop talking. It’s unbecoming.”
Moments later, Conway came back swinging. “Dude, you didn’t even come close to asking a decent follow-up question of Maxwell,” he wrote. Then he drove the knife in: “And I saw you at your boss’s criminal trial, you know, the one where he was convicted on 34 felony counts: You couldn’t cross-examine your way out of a paper bag.”
Blanche — who previously served as Trump’s personal attorney — met with Maxwell on July 24 and 25. In the interview, Maxwell repeatedly defended Trump, saying she “never saw” him “in any inappropriate setting,” that he and Epstein weren’t “close friends,” and that she never saw Trump in Epstein’s home.
“I actually never saw the president in any type of massage setting,” she said. “I never witnessed the President in any inappropriate setting in any way. The president was never inappropriate with anybody. In the times that I was with him, he was a gentleman in all respects.”
The DOJ released transcripts of the interview in August as part of a wider batch of Epstein-related documents turned over to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.
Maxwell, who was sentenced to 20 years in 2021 on sex-trafficking charges, is still trying to appeal her case.
Then came Wednesday’s bombshell: House Oversight Democrats released three new Epstein email exchanges — messages between Epstein, Maxwell, and author Michael Wolff — including claims that Trump “spent hours” with the victims at Epstein’s home and “knew about the girls.”
That same night, Democrats and four Republicans launched a discharge petition to force a vote compelling the DOJ to release all Epstein files.
Speaker Mike Johnson said the House will vote next week.
Trump immediately tried to shut the whole thing down, telling Republicans to avoid Epstein entirely and calling it “the Jeffrey Epstein Hoax.” He warned the GOP not to take the bait: “Only a very bad, or stupid, Republican would fall into that trap.”
“There should be no deflections to Epstein or anything else,” he wrote on Truth Social, insisting Republicans focus only on the looming government shutdown.
The Conway-Blanche blowup is now the loudest skirmish in a rapidly escalating fight — not just over what Maxwell told investigators, but over how many Epstein secrets Washington is still sitting on.
