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(NewsNation) — As respective Republicans telephone connected Congress to bring Ghislaine Maxwell successful to testify, erstwhile Jeffrey Epstein lawyer Alan Dershowitz believes she "absolutely" should.
"She knows everything. I mean, she is everything. I was his lawyer, and I can't uncover worldly that helium told maine successful confidence, but determination are nary great, deep, acheronian secrets," Dershowitz told "Elizabeth Vargas Reports."
He helped unafraid a plea woody successful 2008 for Epstein, who pleaded blameworthy to authorities charges of soliciting and procuring a insignificant for prostitution. Epstein avoided a imaginable beingness condemnation and served 13 months successful a work-release program.
"She was the 1 who arranged each the trips and question of each the radical who went to the island, who went to the location and went to the spot successful New Mexico, who went to his spot successful Paris," helium added.
"So she's the cardinal to everything, and there's nary crushed wherefore they shouldn't springiness her usage immunity, which means she tin inactive beryllium prosecuted if she commits perjury, but she would past person to attest astir everything, and she should."
On Friday, the Justice Department asked the national tribunal to unseal transcripts from the expansive assemblage that investigated Epstein before his 2019 decease successful jail.
President Donald Trump wrote connected Truth Social Thursday nighttime that helium was asking Attorney General Pam Bondi to "produce immoderate and each pertinent Grand Jury testimony, taxable to Court approval."
After telling NewsNation earlier this week that helium did not judge determination was a lawsuit list, Dershowitz present says that each accusation successful the Epstein files should beryllium shared.
"I deliberation the reply is to merchandise everything ... fto it each beryllium retired determination and fto the nationalist determine who's telling the truth," helium said.
The expansive assemblage transcripts are a fraction of the Epstein documents, with bank, telephone and surveillance records inactive nether seal on with his autopsy report.
"There's nary crushed to support the autopsy nether seal," Dershowitz said. "We person to beryllium cautious to separate betwixt grounds of acquaintanceships. I knew Epstein. I was his lawyer. Bill Gates knew him. Fidel Castro knew him, and obviously, Donald Trump knew him, but we each terminated our relationship. Most of america did. Bill Gates didn't, but I did, and others did, arsenic soon arsenic the ineligible proceedings were implicit successful the archetypal case.
"So conscionable due to the fact that somebody's sanction is associated with Epstein doesn't successful immoderate mode connote guilt, and truthful we person to beryllium precise careful."
The Wall Street Journal, which is being sued by the president for alleging helium wrote a crude missive to Epstein for his 50th day successful 2003, besides alleged Dershowitz wrote a enactment to him arsenic portion of a day album.
Dershowitz told the outlet helium had nary recollection of the missive and they would "try" to nonstop a transcript of his signature aft initially rejecting the request, citing the compromise of sources.
"It doesn't dependable similar me," Dershowitz said. "Neither my woman nor I retrieve that, and I person a beauteous bully memory."
He acknowledged it was "possible" but added that "nobody knew helium was doing thing improper" during that clip period.
