MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell on Tuesday revealed what he described as the “sickest” part of Ghislaine Maxwell’s recent prison interview, and noted that it wasn’t shared in the transcript released last month by President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice.
“The most perverse thing that you could possibly have done in that room was to fill that room with laughter, which Ghislaine Maxwell did repeatedly,” O’Donnell said on “The Last Word,” citing publicly available audio recordings of her controversial sit-down in July.
The convicted sex trafficker and former accomplice of Jeffrey Epstein is currently angling for a presidential pardon. She sang Trump’s praises during two days of questioning by deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche and was subsequently transferred to a more comfortable prison.
“The worst thing about it is the laughter,” O’Donnell said about the interview sessions. “That’s the part that the news reports haven’t told you about. There was a lot of laughter. They all laughed. And no one laughed more than Ghislaine Maxwell.”
O’Donnell added, “In nine hours of what turned out to be casual conversation spread over a Thursday and a Friday in Florida, the single sickest reaction you could have in that discussion of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell’s sex crimes was laughter. And they all did it.”
Maxwell is at the heart of this ongoing scandal plaguing the Trump administration, as Epstein died behind bars while awaiting trial on federal sex trafficking charges in 2019, and his known ties to powerful people fueled public demand for a rumored “client list.”
Attorney General Pam Bondi vowed full transparency in February, only for Trump to call the case a “hoax” perpetuated by Democrats. Thousands of court filings related to Epstein were finally released on Tuesday, but they largely contained information that was already publicly known.
O’Donnell’s monologue focused squarely on Maxwell’s “friendly discussion” with Blanche. He argued the resulting transcript is “not real,” as it omitted mentions of laughter, and because “we have no idea” what was said before and after the recording.
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“Ghislaine Maxwell laughed the most, joined by her three criminal defense lawyers,” he said. “And their laughter was joined by the four people from the Trump Justice Department sitting in that room with a convicted sex trafficker, and indicted perjurer.”
O’Donnell continued, “And they laughed the day away with her two days in a row.”
He further noted that Blanche sounded eager in the recordings for Maxwell to name as many prominent names as she could. The pundit argued that Trump’s name would be diluted by this “sea” of other famous figures — some of whom never even met Epstein.
O’Donnell previously argued that Maxwell can’t be trusted to tell the truth and wouldn’t possibly incriminate the only person who could pardon her. He also made a chilling prediction about the case in August.
Watch the O’Donnell’s full monologue below: