It's the strange little details that give it away – the haste, the lack of planning and, dare I say it, the sheer incompetence behind the scenes when it comes to this week's meeting between President Trump's deputy Attorney General and Ghislaine Maxwell.
I can disclose, for example, that the interview with Maxwell, one of the most high profile felons in the American penal system, was originally scheduled to take place inside the tough Florida jail where she is serving her 20-year sentence for child sex offences.
But the plan to see her behind bars collapsed in farce when it emerged that the Tallahassee Federal Correctional Institute had no table big enough to accommodate the seven people planning to attend.
I'm told that the prison authorities couldn't even fix the problem by pushing two tables together because the furniture is secured to the floor – to prevent the prisoners wielding tables and chairs as weapons.
That's why the remarkable interview, now in its second day, was transferred instead to the Tallahassee Courthouse.
