Mega Edition: Day Number 10 Of The Ghislaine Maxwell Trial (3/25/26)

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Today marked day number 10 of the Golan Maxwell trial.

And we had what was the best performance by the prosecution so far in this trial in my opinion.

And that was anchored by a pretty powerful testimony given by Annie Farmer.

Now, they weren't able to go after Annie the way they were able to go after some of these other girls.

And you could see the defense struggling when they didn't have a pathway to attack people's character

or to frame them as bad people for bad life choices that I remind you mainly came after their experiences with Maxwell and Epstein.

So with Annie on the stand today, they weren't really able to do that.

And now, obviously, I wasn't in the courtroom.

I didn't see facial expressions and stuff like that.

But from what I gathered and from the information that is available to us about the exchanges and what went on in that courtroom today,

it certainly seems like the prosecution had a much better day to day.

Now, not only did Annie tell her story, her ex-boyfriend from that time who was, they were together in high school,

he corroborated her story as well and came out and told the jury that she told him all of this stuff back when it happened.

Then, of course, the final person to take the stand was her mom and her mom, you know, wasn't on the stand very long.

But Kudos to her mom for getting up there on the stand and, you know, you have to think as a parent that that is a moment that you would want to be able to experience if you can.

Right? To get up there and look into the face of the person who was accused of hurting your child.

So I thought that that was a pretty good way to end this trial today, way to end this portion of it, I should say.

And as I stated earlier, I honestly believe that the prosecution had a much better day today.

Now, what will the defense bring next week?

That's certainly a question that has to be asked, but as of right now, and sitting here after the 10 days, I would think that with this, with this piece of testimony,

packed with the other testimony we have heard from the other survivors and the other corroboration, I would think that, unless Maxwell has something up or sleeve here,

that the jury is going to be leaning towards a conviction. Now, that's just my guess, right?

I'm not Nostradamus. I don't have any kind of inside line to what the jury is thinking.

I'm just looking at it from all of the evidence that has been presented thus far and where we're at.

Now, if we had a prosecution team that was go in all the way type of prosecution team, like we used to see when they were going after the Mafia in the 70s and the 80s, then this would have been a huge slam dunk from day one.

But I, you know, I'm not a huge fan of this prosecution team and I've said that since it was assembled back in, you know, in the beginning, and I'm not impressed by their performance for the most part here.

They were given an essential mountain of evidence.

So this shouldn't even be something that's up for debate as far as if they can get a conviction here.

But today was a better day and when you look at just the testimony from the survivors, I think that that's going to be enough to send it home and get Maxwell sent to prison.

So we'll see what happens, right? We'll see what goes down in the next, you know, week or so.

But today's testimony from Annie was pretty damning as far as the defense goes.

So with all of that said, we're going to dive into some of that testimony and take a look at what occurred in the courtroom today.

So the proceedings get underway with the first witness who is an employee of the New York State Motor Vehicles Department named William Brown.

He is brought up by the prosecution to confirm the legitimacy of an ID card that was submitted into evidence.

So they ask him questions about his knowledge as far as people receiving ID cards goes.

And to this, he answers that he is familiar with the process.

After referring him to an evidence binder, they ask him how old the person in question was in 1985 when they were born and in turn how old that would make them in 1996.

So obviously the number is 11 and with the document verified by Mr. Brown, the prosecution is finished with the witness and the defense declines to even cross.

So at this point, they call Annie Farmer to the stand.

Judge Nathan then directs the court that Annie's allegations in regards to the contact between Epstein and Maxwell and her in New Mexico.

Well, it wasn't illegal because she was 16.

Again, in a vacuum, it could be passed off as a coincidence, right, or that the incident occurred in New Mexico.

But when you look at what Epstein and Maxwell were doing, it just cements the fact home that Epstein chose New Mexico for this very reason.

Epstein was very much aware that he could get away with a whole lot more in New Mexico than he could in New York.

Him and Maxwell, they could have built that ranch anywhere they wanted.

But it just so happened to be in New Mexico, huh, with their lack of age of consent law and him not having to register there as a sex offender.

It's just all a coincidence, right.

Of course, it's not Epstein knew the deal.

He knew the laws.

How could he?

One of his best buds was Bill Richardson, wasn't it?

What about all of the kings from New Mexico that he was friends with?

Didn't he buy his land from them?

So the rabbit hole is deep when it comes to New Mexico.

And I'll tell you what, that's certainly something that I am not going to forget about that I'm not going to just stop looking into.

In fact, I, you know, another trip down there at some point is going to be necessary.

When Annie has asked if she recognizes any of the people in the courtroom who has ever given her a massage, she says yes and she points out Galen Maxwell.

She has then asked some basic questions such as where she was born to which she replies Missouri.

They asked about her family's finances and Annie tells the court that her parents were divorced and she was worried about where she'd be getting money to go to college from.

The typical worries that kids have at this age, right?

Especially if you have your site set on going to school, it's an expensive deal.

And a lot of people who come from broken homes or one parent homes or especially the working poor, the idea of being able to actually pay to go to a good college is about as far away as being able to walk to Mars.

It just doesn't really come up in the conversation as far as paying for it, right?

So you have to work to get a scholarship, grants, loans and all of that stuff.

So Annie was dealing with the same kind of feelings any of us would be dealing with.

Where are we going to, how are we going to go to school?

How am I going to further my education?

I don't want to be a burden on my parents.

And then someone like Jeffrey Epstein slides into the conversation with Galen Maxwell and you know they promise you the world.

They asked about her siblings and she responded, you know, she had siblings and she talked about her older sister Maria, who was nine years older than her and who was living in New York at the time.

Maria was employed by Jeffrey Epstein at this time.

She was working with him, you know, in a art for different pieces of art to look at different art pieces, figure if they were good to buy and that kind of thing, right?

And Maria had been hooked up with them via the art school that she was going to and that is a tell for a whole for a different time.

In fact, I'll upload an article.

I mean, an episode about all of that to give some more context to how Maria even ended up working for Jeffrey Epstein in the first place.

Maria, who was Annie's older sister, obviously, she was in New York pursuing her art career when she was hooked up with a job at Epstein's by friends of the pedophile who were big shots at the art school that she was attending and in the art world.

When asked who paid for the ticket to New York, Annie says she was excited to see her family and that, you know, she wanted to go see her mom and that the ticket was paid for by Epstein.

She recalls going to Jeffrey Epstein's grand home, which was the Manhattan townhouse and she also tells the court about her living arrangements while she was in New York. She was staying with her sister.

She goes on to tell the court how Epstein peppered her with questions such as what her future plans were and he of course had to tell her about all of his connections with UCLA being mentioned as one of the schools he had the hook up at.

Now, we know Epstein had his paws into all kinds of schools, universities, high schools, you name it. And he certainly had his meat hooks into a bunch of different scientists and academics.

And what Epstein would do is he would dangle this in front of these girls. Him and Maxwell, they'd bring these girls into the atmosphere and then, hello, I know this guy, I can get you into this school.

Oh, you don't have to worry about it, do this for me and then I'll make sure that you're taking care of it.

But Epstein wasn't following through on a lot of that stuff, was he?

He also gave her advice on what she should do to make sure she got the proper nudge in the right direction on her application by taking an international learning trip.

And this was obviously foreshadowing for the trip that she ended up going on to Thailand and Vietnam later on to further her goals of trying to get into a better school.

Annie goes on to her account their time together, telling the court about how he took her to see Phantom of the Opera and then to see a movie.

It was at this movie where Epstein first made his move. Epstein was sitting between Annie and Maria and Jeffrey began to fondle her leg.

She said it made her confused and sick to her stomach. Whenever Maria would look over, Epstein would stop his behavior.

When asked if she told Maria what Epstein did to her, she says that she was scared, that if she told Maria who was protective of her, that what Epstein was doing, that she would be upset and she would say something that would end up making her lose her job.

So instead of telling Maria what happened, Annie was just quiet.

Prosecution then moves on to Annie's journal and they ask her if she wrote it often.

To this, Annie responds that while she sometimes used the journal to mark certain events in her life, she wasn't consistent in updating it.

So it wasn't like she was updating her journal every single day in a militant fashion.

It was when she had big life events or she had the time to get to it, she would update it.

The journal is then displayed on screen in the court and Annie goes on to recount certain entries to the court about the trip to see Phantom of the Opera and how she drank champagne with Epstein, grown-ass man shouldn't be drinking with his little girl anyway.

Again, just another thing we should overlook, right? But me or you, we do something like that, forget it, get put under the prison.

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She also accounts how she was weirded out by Epstein at the movie they went to. Prosecution then asks her what her feelings were when she was writing this entry and she said that she had feelings that conflicted with each other.

But she was trying to rationalize and normalize what was occurring with Epstein. Her journal continued on about how she was thinking of doing something in Africa as far as her international trip went.

You know how Epstein was telling her that she should think about going on one of these trips to bolster her resume so that she would have a better chance to getting into one of these bigger schools.

So the questioning then turns to the trip to New Mexico. When asked when she went to New Mexico, she told the court that it was the spring of 1996, April she believes.

And he goes on to tell the court that she landed in Santa Fe and that there was a car service that was waiting for her when she arrived and this car service took her to Stanley to Jeffrey Epstein's Zorro Ranch.

It was here where she met Maxwell for the first time and remember Maxwell is supposed to be this upstanding lady from Haya culture who is somebody you don't worry about being a predator, right?

That's not the last thing you're thinking about is you're going to be preyed upon by these high class upper, you know, upper level so-called elites.

But unfortunately the more you look into these people, the more you find out that they're all wired screwed up.

It's like once you start making, you know, a billion dollars, 500 million dollars, your whole entire brain is scrambled and you become some kind of weirdo right away.

It was here where she met Maxwell for the first time. She described Maxwell as slim and attractive who was in her 30s.

She also described Maxwell as well spoken and articulate and having a British accent.

She told the court that knowing Maxwell was there made her feel more comfortable with the incident in New York that happened with Epstein previously still fresh in her mind.

So again, Annie is going here according to her testimony with the thinking that because Maxwell's there that this is going to be okay, she's not going to have to worry about being abused or Jeffrey Epstein touching her in unwanted ways.

But what occurred was something completely different wasn't it? What occurred was not only did Maxwell break that covenant, but Maxwell according to Annie's testimony,

abused her herself.

She told the court that knowing Maxwell was there made her more comfortable and with the incident in New York that happened with Epstein previously still fresh in her mind.

Especially considering when Annie witnessed them together acting intimate, she thought that they were a couple.

That was the biggest pump fake Maxwell and Epstein had in their arsenal though folks. The we are the couple card. It was BS from the jump. They were never a couple.

They were working together in tandem a lot earlier than the official narrative had it in the first place.

We were telling you for years that that was the case by the way, but it's the whole entire setup of them being a couple is just loony-tuned fake land.

It might as well have come out of the onion. Now she might have had the hots for Epstein for a little while or whatever, but not the same way we do.

Not the I'll jump in front of a train for my love one. I'll take a bullet for the girl I love or the man I love. It's not the same kind of love.

They were working as partners both looking to increase their profile, increase their wealth and increase their place in so-called elite society.

They were never a couple in a true sense. They were business partners. And when asked who told her that Maxwell would be there, she said that her mother did.

And when you hear from her mom later on, her mom asked Epstein who was going to be shaperoning this whole thing. Like I'm going to send my daughter with some man, there's no shaperone. And Maxwell, well she talks to her mom and says, oh I'm going to be the shaperone.

And then this kind of shit occurs. Can you imagine? I can't even begin to tell you. I'm not even a party to this, right?

I'm not somebody who has been abused by them or anything. And I hate Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein with the heat of a thousand burning suns.

And I don't hate very many people, folks. It's really not in my DNA to run around hating people. But what these people did for as long as they did it is just so disgusting to me that I really don't have words honestly to describe how much I detest these people.

The execution then goes on to ask about the conversations had with Maxwell and Annie. And Annie tells them they talked about things such as her favorite British authors school and just life in general.

Now imagine being such a smarmy ass scumball that you're sitting here gaining this young girl's confidence asking her about things like who her favorite authors are, life in general school, all of the things that you would be asking to build trust, right?

And then get into the inner circle to show her, oh, I'm interested in you. Oh, I care about what your life is what's going on in your life. And now mind you, this is a young 16 year old girl and some posh as British socialite.

So of course, she's going to be a bit enamored with Galen Maxwell, right? Maxwell had the kind of life, at least on the outside the way they lived, jet setting, you know, bunch of money, the kind of life people aspire to.

Prosecution then asks about leaving the ranch at all while she was there. And she says that they left the ranch to go to a natural food store where she was bought henna by Maxwell.

And then they also visited a western warehouse store where she bought a pair of cowboy boots. Now this is the pair of cowboy boots that have been in question all day.

This is the cowboy, the pair of cowboy boots that have been talked about for a few months now. Now remember we didn't an episode.

I don't even remember one at this point, a few months back about the cowboy boots and how the defense was looking to get them brought up and put in as evidence.

And they got their way here, right? The boots were brought in and put into evidence and this is the questioning that came with it.

She says Epstein paid but Maxwell was there. And he tells the court that the boots cost over $100 and that she was very thankful and very gracious for the gift.

While she might have been grateful for the gift, she didn't want to go to the movies again due to the first time in New York, but she thought that things might be a little different considering that Maxwell was with them.

So after buying the boots, you know, the time for the movie. So they go see the movie primal fear and unfortunately having Maxwell there wasn't any help at all.

This again shows Maxwell's role as a groomer as a normalizer of this sort of behavior in my opinion.

To get here, get her this comfortable and then bring her into the viper's nest is just beyond the pale folks and I just don't have any sympathy or empathy for it.

And I don't see how there's anyone who could believe when you know all of the stuff that we have talked about that we have seen that she wasn't grooming these girls.

It is absurd.

If Epstein is doing it while his intimate partner, another adult is here, it has to be okay, right?

Remember, we are talking about a 16 year old girl here. This is not some gray area, not a 19 year old stupid boy who has a 16 year old girlfriend.

We're talking about a powerful pair of well connected people who understand what they're doing.

They understand that they're manipulating the situation. Why don't they have girls there that are their age?

Why don't they go to one of their ox foot haunts and go get you some girls that are, you know, other elites?

Yeah, you know why, right? Because they never ever prey on themselves. It's always the most vulnerable amongst us.

It's always the poor. And frankly, I'm tired of bullies in general and I'm certainly tired of bullies like these bitch ass scoundrels.

When pressed by the prosecutor about the length of the unwanted groping in the movie theater, Annie responded that it took place for most of the movie.

They were seeing the movie primal fear. She says he was brazen about what he was doing and not trying to hide it.

So obviously Maxwell was aware of Epstein touching Annie in the movie theater and she didn't step up to the plate either because you know why?

And obviously just my opinion, but in my opinion, she didn't try and help Annie because that was the whole reason Annie was there to try and groom her and get Jeffrey Epstein a new person in his little crew.

That Maxwell was providing for him. And it was just just a gross process when you watch it unfold.

When you watch the role Maxwell played time and time again here to groom these girls to normalize the procedure and to give them comfort, it is just beyond the pale.

She says she was excuse me. So after the movie, when they got back to the ranch, Galen Maxwell instructed her how to rub Jeffrey Epstein's feet and she'd even given her a crash course on how to do it.

Annie says that she just did what Maxwell told her to do. She watched and did as she was instructed.

Annie goes on to explain how Maxwell sat and held one of Epstein's feet and instructed her to massage the other.

Now a little bit of a divergent course here, but we know that Virginia also was talking about the feet massaging and how she had to massage Matt Groning, the creator of the Simpson's feet on that plane.

She said that his feet were gross. So you see a pattern here with feet, right? It's certainly something that is one of their fetishes, obviously.

And I think that the government hit Pader here in my opinion. This once again strengthens the case of Maxwell that she wasn't only along for the ride, but she was also engaging in the abuse herself.

When asked about the massage, Annie told the court that she was very uncomfortable and she wanted it to be over quickly.

She also details how there was a massage table set up in the room where she was staying and explains how when she was explained how she was told to get undressed by Maxwell and then asked what she was wearing during that act.

She said she wasn't wearing anything. Annie continues telling the court that Maxwell pulled the sheet down, exposed her, and then touched her breasts.

Annie also says that she could feel that Epstein was watching Maxwell touch her breasts. She was 16, remember? Then Annie goes on to tell the court about Epstein creeping into bed with her and saying he just wanted to cuddle.

So as Maxwell is sexually abusing her, but it's okay because it's in New Mexico, right?

Well, as Maxwell sexually abusing her, this nasty-ass gross son of a bitch Epstein standing out in the hallway watching.

But no, Maxwell had nothing to do with this, folks. She was just, she's a victim herself.

Lock her up, throw away the key.

I mean, a grown-ass man talking about cuddling with this little girl. Once again, Epstein chose New Mexico for a reason.

She goes on to tell the court about a trip to Thailand and Vietnam, how it was a cultural immersion trip, and when asked who paid for it, she responded that Epstein did.

When asked if she had any other contact with Epstein and Maxwell after the trip, she says no.

So again, Epstein was talking about that cultural trip, right? And that was, again, part of the grooming process.

You send these girls on enough trips, you give them enough things, then their behavior, they feel in their mind because everybody else around them is doing it, remember, is normalized.

So that's why they shower them with gifts. That's why they continue to give them things.

She tells the court when asked about who she told. She says that she told her mother first.

When asked if she told anyone else, she says that she had a boyfriend at the time and that she had told him as well.

Now, we'll hear from him at the end here. He gives testimony today to corroborate what Annie had to say.

When asked if she ever spoke with the media, Annie says that she has many times.

She brings up the first time in 2002 when Vicki Ward and Vanity Fair burned her in Maria and decided to quash the part about Epstein's abuse.

And then asked if she went to law enforcement, she responds that yes, she had.

In 2006 and 2007, to the do nothing as FBI, she didn't say that, I just added that because, you know, the FBI is only interested if, you know,

you're poor or somebody that they can move the needle on, certainly not Jeffrey Epstein, God forbid they rock the boat.

The prosecution then asks Annie if she had ever been paid for any of the interviews and she responds that she has never been paid for any of them.

She says that she spoke off the record to the media in 2016 and on the record in 2019.

When asked about interviews with law enforcement in New York, she says she was interviewed in 2019 by the NYPD and then she sued Epstein and Maxwell that fall.

When asked if she participated in the victim's compensation fund, she responded she did. She received $1.5 million from it.

Now, first of all, that's not enough, my opinion. Second of all, this is a big problem for the defense.

With that money being paid out, it is the estate admitting fault and admitting culpability and liability and saying that Epstein is guilty of the crimes charged.

Why else would they be paying this money out?

It would be insane for them to pay this money out if they didn't think that this was happening, right? If they didn't think any of this was true.

So you mean to tell me Maxwell was hanging out with Epstein this whole entire time and she knew nothing about it, huh?

They were sleeping in the same room. She knew nothing about it, huh? They were paling around closer than, you know, Abbot and Castello, but, eh!

So this is a big problem for the defense, in my opinion. It really, again, you know, talked about those foundational blocks that were being laid.

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She also states that her lawyers worked pro bono. Asked if she had a financial stake in this case, Annie responds that she does not have a financial stake.

Now with that, the prosecution is done and they turn Annie over as a witness to the defense.

Handling this portion for the defense is Laura Meninger.

Meninger starts in right away asking questions about Annie's travel arrangements to New York and who set it up.

She states that it was her sister Maria who set up her flight.

Meninger also states that Annie also went to flea markets and saw the Blue Man group while she was in New York and to this Annie agrees.

When asked if Maxwell took her to the Lion King, Annie responds no.

When asked about vibrators and massagers or other sex toys being shown anything like that while she was in New York, she says she didn't see any of that.

Now they wouldn't just bring that out right away, right? They have to establish that this is somebody who is going to be able to be groomed, be brought into the process to make it normalized.

She was also asked if Maxwell was present at this time to which she responded that she was not.

Meninger then moves to the journal entries pointing out where Annie stated that her trip to the Phantom of the Opera was the best night of her trip.

Trying to insinuate it would seem that she enjoyed herself when creepy ass Epstein was rubbing on her leg.

That's certainly what it seems like.

I mean, I get it, right? She's a defense attorney. This is her job. She has to explore every avenue to try and get her client off.

But a lot of this questioning is kind of ridiculous in my opinion and I think it does more harm than it does good.

Now again, I'm certainly not a lawyer and I'm not somebody who is locked into trials on a daily basis.

But just from the peanut gallery over here, it certainly looks like this is a losing strategy for the defense.

She then goes on to question how anyone can confirm who invited her to New Mexico without any evidence.

Again, not a good look here for Meninger in my opinion and I would think that the jury might not be fans of it either.

Meninger then tries to say that Annie used the release date of the movie they went to see primal fear as a marker working backwards to put her story together.

Acting like Annie needed this movie to shock her into her memory.

It's kind of like for me when I look at it, you know, like if you're out on a hiker or whatever or you're out somewhere and you might not have an idea of where you are,

well, you look at markers, right, to try and establish where you're at, what your location is.

And it's the same thing here when you have an event occur and there was a serious traumatic event, you're going to remember the movie you were at, right?

You're going to remember where you were.

You might not remember all of the little details, but you're going to remember this sort of thing.

Annie responds that she wouldn't say it that way.

And Meninger continues on her narrative asking about the journal and what she didn't write in it and asking about if she communicated with a journalist and told him that she'd research the release date of primal fear.

Annie responds with yes to this question again, looks to me like it's a pointless line for the defense, but they obviously have a game plan.

Meninger then says Annie didn't state the contact with Epstein weird in her journal and Annie tells the court that she was struggling with processing what had occurred at the time.

So just because you don't talk about it right away doesn't mean it never happened.

And a lot of times, especially when you're talking about young girls like this or young boys, they're trying to process what happened, trying to go through their feelings and unpack things.

So if you're going to look at a journal entry and say, oh, well, it wasn't in the journal, so it didn't happen, it's absolutely ridiculous.

And I don't see how anyone on a jury could sit there and say, oh, yeah, that's a, you know, that's a really, really convincing line of defense.

The defense continues their typical scumbaggery stating that Annie only thought that what happened to her was weird and hindsight.

Um, what so crazy, right? So it was only weird and hindsight as if you're supposed to unpack and process it as it's happening.

Seems to me that manager has no idea about trauma and frankly, I'm not some kind of expert either, but I've at least, you know, read a few books.

I mean, come on.

You all everybody knows that when there's a traumatic incident when somebody's sexually assaulted or something like that, that a lot of times people might even compartmentalize that people might even try and have that as a repressed memory.

And it takes something that triggers them for it to come out.

When asked if the journal helped or a member details of different life events, Annie somewhat agreed with that statement.

Um, after the cross continued for a little bit, Judge Nathan, well, she declared lunch.

Now coming back from lunch, manager continues on with her questions.

She asked Annie about a cook who was on the ranch that she didn't mention while on direct, and Annie responds that she has no recollection of that.

Manager, with her typical snark, asks about the big glorious Zoro Ranch, and if she had seen it at the time, and Annie again responds with no.

First of all, she called Epstein's place in New York, big and glorious, but manager has to be snarky.

She has to try and be, you know, cute here and use those very words when explaining Epstein's Zoro Ranch.

Ridiculous.

Now they're circling back to the boots that were purchased by Epstein with Maxwell for Annie, and manager, boy, she loves framing questions as statements.

Good old lawyer speak.

Manager states that Annie mentioned the cowboy boots, and that on the trip, she spent a good amount of time horseback riding.

Manager, if that is a question, and manager replies by asking if she told the FBI that in 2006, if she told the FBI that in 2006, and Annie replies yes.

So you see what manager does here?

Manager makes statements and says, you know, isn't it so?

Didn't this happen?

Isn't it truthful that instead of asking questions, right?

To try and make it seem that this is a fact right off of the jump for the jury anyway, that it's a fact that this happened.

And it is typical lawyer speak, and definitely something that is employed by high profile lawyers such as this.

She continues with her statements framed as questions by asking her if she wore the boots even though they were evidence,

and Annie responds that she wore them to go line dancing in.

I mean, what the fuck else is she supposed to do with the boots?

Put them on her hands and clap like a seal?

I mean, ridiculous.

The whole thing is absurd. The whole line of questioning is absurd.

And I really don't think that Maxwell's legal team has done enough here as far as the witness testimony has gone.

Now, the other parts of the case, they've definitely done a better job, but when it comes to the witness testimony,

look, you can only go so far in assailing the truth.

Meninger again with the question wrapped as a statement,

so you wore the boots that Jeffrey Epstein gave you when you danced, trying to insinuate that whatever happened to Annie,

while with Epstein and Maxwell wasn't that big of a deal since, you know, she kept the boots.

Maybe she was dancing in those boots, imagining that Maxwell and Epstein were beneath her.

Who knows what was going on?

But again, with the boots and her keeping the boots as some kind of defense strategy, pretty absurd to me.

Meninger then asks about the massage and how Annie stated that she was naked for the massage,

but she told the journalist that she had no bra on.

To this, the prosecution objects, but they're overruled by Judge Nathan.

The defense goes on to ask if Annie remembers,

Epstein pushing an erect penis into her back, and she responds that she did not recall that occurring,

asking if she told her mother she was raped or sexually abused.

Annie replies she said she was not raped, but she didn't say she wasn't sexually abused.

Two very different things, right?

Both heinous, no doubt about it, but they're trying to insinuate because she didn't tell her mother that she wasn't raped,

that nothing happened.

As if having gross-ass, disgusting Epstein putting his hands on you,

and Maxwell fondling you in an unwanted manner isn't bad enough.

Asking about the compensation fund now, Meninger asks if she told the fund that handholding was abuse, again ridiculous,

again trying to minimalize what Annie went through and what Epstein and Maxwell did to her.

Annie replies that she told them in detail what happened,

and they obviously believed that considering they paid her $1.5 million,

people like Epstein's estate managers are pinching every penny.

They hated that fund.

They didn't want to pay any of that money out.

Not only did they pay that money out, once they paid it out, they accepted culpability,

and they accepted blame for what happened, or else why are you paying restitution?

So, Maxwell's team here trying to bring up the fund blows up in their face, in my opinion,

considering that her ace in the hole, her pal, Jeffrey Epstein basically just admitted that he did all of this.

Now, not him himself, but his estate.

The questioning now moves to Annie's legal representation,

and Meninger in one of the more ironic moments thus far, considering her fat legal fees.

As if Annie knows how much boys and shiller have made off of the Epstein case.

To this, Judge Nathan finally decides to do something worthwhile, she objects,

yet Meninger continues to press the point home.

Now Nathan emphatically demands that the lawyer stops.

So, look, Maxwell's team has been pushing the envelope the whole entire trial.

They've borderline doxed some of the survivors, they have pushed the envelope with Judge Nathan,

and they haven't been sanctioned, they haven't been slapped down, none of it.

Again, Meninger spins the conversation, this time landing on a WhatsApp group of Epstein survivors,

and says that Annie was part of that group.

She then says that Annie and Virginia have emailed each other.

Seems like the defense is trying to set this up as like some kind of huge plot to extort money from Epstein and Maxwell.

You would have to be Helen Keller blind to see it that way.

The survivors became close, because they understood what the others had went through,

and because if you want the truth, nobody else really cared.

After a few more minutes, Meninger is done, and then Prosecutor Pomerantz moves in for the redirect.

Prosecution asks Annie if she recalls talking to the FBI and giving statements in 2006,

and Annie responds that she did remember.

Again, the movie primal fear is brought up, and Annie explains the movie on its plot.

The prosecution then asks if Annie needed a piece of paper to remember what that she was groped and fondled on her breasts by Maxwell,

to which Maxwell's team objects.

Annie responds that she didn't need a journal entry to remember that,

and that the incident was so distressing that those are the things that we remember.

Annie goes on to say that she believes that Maxwell and Epstein were attempting to blur the lines and normalize behavior that wasn't normal in order to sexually abuse her.

Of course, to this, there is an objection, but it's overruled by Judge Nathan.

At that point, however, they're done as far as the cross.

I mean, the redirect.

So Annie is done for the day, and she leaves on that note.

And like I said, I found Annie's testimony today to be very damning for the defense.

She was very solid, giving her testimony, and I think it's going to go a long way here as the prosecution looks to get an conviction.

The next witness up on the stand is David Mulligan.

He was Annie's boyfriend in high school.

Prosecution starts by asking him about Annie's trip to New York, and what happened while she was there.

And David says that Annie told him about Epstein touching her leg in the theater,

and that she was scared to say anything because Epstein was helping her sister's art career out.

When asked if Annie ever told him about her breast being touched during the massage,

he responds that yes, she did tell him about it as well.

See, again, corroborating.

What we have here are witness statements that corroborate what the survivors themselves say,

and usually that goes a long way in court.

After this line of questioning, the prosecution, they move on, and they're done.

So it goes to the cross and Bobby Sternheim, who is taking over from here.

She asked Mr. Mulligan if he has seen things in the media about the case,

and to that, David responds that he is not much of a news watcher.

I mean, not like it would matter, since the legacy media isn't bothering themselves

that even really cover the case.

Oh, now they'll say they are, oh, we're here.

There's dozens of journalists here.

Where have you been for all of these years?

So he says he doesn't really watch news.

He's not a news guy.

So he doesn't really know much about it anyway.

Sternheim then asks for who the hell knows what reason.

If David is aware that Annie was paid out one and a half million dollars by the fund,

and to this, he mentions he has no idea.

Why would he know what Annie gets paid out?

What do you think Annie's calling all of her friends?

Oh, I got paid out a few bucks.

I'm pretty sure she'd prefer innocence back, her youth.

Pretty sure she'd prefer all of that to the $1.5 million.

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Now they move on to the redirect.

When asked why you remembered what Annie told them about in New Mexico, Mr. Mulligan tells the prosecution that these were big moments that they that they discussed while they were being physically affectionate with each other.

The prosecution is done after that quick redirect and the next witness is ready to come out to the box.

Now think about that for a minute when you're in moments of intimacy with your significant other.

That's a time of vulnerability, right?

We say things that we would never say around anyone else or to anyone else.

And you know that when she was with him and they were in, you know, their intimate moments, the cuddled on the bed or whatever it was.

She would open up and tell him this stuff and him coming out and corroborating it.

It's damning in my opinion, folks.

So the next witness that we see take the stand is Annie's mom Janice.

Prosecution begins as usual asking basic questions such as Janice's age, which she responds that she is 71 years old.

Asked by prosecution, when she first spoke to Epstein, she responds that she spoke with him when he wanted to take Maria on a work trip on his plane to Florida.

Epstein then told Janice about the conference at his ranch in New Mexico.

And when asked by Janice who would be shaperoning the event, Epstein told her that Maxwell would be.

Again, Maxwell being a pivotal piece in all of this occurring right before our eyes.

Having Maxwell in a leadership role and what it does, it accelerates it, right?

It accelerates the narrative once again that Galen Maxwell played a significant role here.

In fact, I doubt that Annie would have even been able to go if Maxwell wasn't the shaperone.

When Annie returned from the trip, her mother goes on to tell the court that she was really tired and that she had a new pair of black boots.

When her mother pressed her on what happened to New Mexico, she said she didn't want to talk about it.

With that, the prosecution finishes and Meninger comes in for a very short cross.

Defense asks several questions in a short exchange about what Janice knew about the trip and different locations including Thailand and Panama, and then they wrap it up.

So with that final statement there and the final witness done, the government has now rested their case.

Now, once the jury leaves the courtroom, Christian Everdel, Galen Maxwell's lawyer, moves for an acquittal on all charges and he is forcefully denied.

So now the defense will have to make their case starting the 16th.

Court will now be in recess Friday, obviously Saturday, Sunday, then Monday, Tuesday, and then things will pick back up on Thursday.

With the defense making their case.

So obviously we'll still be here dropping updates, night and day.

We'll do some context updates, we'll do a, you know, where we're at kind of update, that kind of thing, and keep the conversation moving as we work towards next week and hopefully a conviction.

So there's where we're at today folks as far as testimony goes.

And like I said earlier in the morning update, I thought today would be a great day for the, for the prosecution and it certainly turned out that way, at least in my opinion.

I thought that Annie being up on the set on the stand was a slam dunk for the prosecution and even through a very long cross and a long time on the stand in general.

Annie withheld well and really punched the story home.

So we'll see what happens next week and we'll see what sort of witnesses the defense going to bring, but it was definitely a very high note, at least in my opinion, for the prosecution to at least rest on the back of such strong testimony.

All right, everybody, I hope you all enjoy your Friday night, hope you all enjoy your weekend as well.

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