As President Donald Trump struggles to contain the fallout over his ties to the late sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, lawmakers on Capitol Hill and officials within his own administration are turning to Ghislaine Maxwell, the financier’s longtime co-conspirator and sometime girlfriend.

President Trump is downplaying the Epstein saga despite his Deputy Attorney General and former personal lawyer Todd Blanche meeting with convicted Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell. Former Special Agent at the FBI Counterintelligence division Asha Rangappa,

The controversy over Jeffrey Epstein rumbles on, despite President Trump’s efforts to put it behind him. It’s been almost three weeks since a joint, unsigned memo from the FBI and the Department of Justice (DOJ) insisted “no incriminating ‘client list’” had been found among material related to Epstein.