Conservative pundit Ben Ferguson defended President Donald Trump’s administration Friday on CNN over its interview of Ghislaine Maxwell, the former accomplice of late sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, who claimed in a just-released transcript that Trump wasn’t involved in their crimes.
The “NewsNight” panel consequently erupted into a heated debate and name-calling.
Maxwell is currently seeking a presidential pardon and was moved to a minimum-security prison in Texas, but only after agreeing to an interview with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, in which she claimed never having seen Trump in a compromising situation.
“There’s nothing wrong with asking those questions,” said Ferguson about the interview.
“You guys are angry that they decide to sit down with someone who, by the way, is alive, because the other person … is dead,” he continued. “Epstein’s dead. You have [only] one [known other] person who’s heavily involved in this [ongoing sex trafficking scandal].”
