Skeptics Asked on October 26, 2021
Bill Barr is the current United States Attorney General. AP reports
British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell was arrested Thursday [July 2] on charges she helped lure at least three girls — one as young as 14 — to be sexually abused by the late financier Jeffrey Epstein, who was accused of victimizing dozens of girls and women over many years.
Several ten thousand twitter users have now liked or retweeted the following claims:
Baligubadle:
Breaking: Ghislaine Maxwell’s lawyer has refused to let Bill Barr visit her client in jail.
10:54 AM · Jul 2, 2020
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(10.4K Retweets, 47.5K Likes — as of 2020/07/03 9:39 EST)
Richard Marx [blue checkmark]:
Why would Bill Barr want to visit Ghislaine Maxwell in jail the day she’s arrested? Hmmm?
6:34 PM · Jul 2, 2020
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(12.5K Retweets, 51.9K Likes — as of 2020/07/03 9:39 EST)
Is there any evidence Bill Barr attempted to visit Ghislaine Maxwell on July 2? Or has a reputable news source mentioned this (something other than twitter comments)?
(a quick google search is only showing those twitter comments)
There are some additional tweets, though both after yours:
Barr visited Maxwell in jail this morning.
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Today Attorney General Barr attempted to visit Ghislaine Maxwell in her jail cell, but was refused entry by her attorney.
There is another claim that Barr's attempt was the day after arrest:
The day after Ghislaine Maxwell was arrested & booked, Us Attorney General William Barr tried to visit her like he did Jeffrey Epstein. Maxwell refused.
It was widely circulated that Barr visited Epstein shortly before his death:
Epstein ended up dead days after Barr visited him.
Epstein had been thought to have attempted suicide nearly three weeks ago, around the time that Kasman said Attorney General William Barr made a discreet visit to the federal detention center
Snopes rated the claim about visiting Epstein as False.
All told, however, the claim has its origins in a man with a history of wild claims whose expertise on the topic is limited to his having made "several" visits to the same prison over two decades earlier. As such, we consider the claim without merit.
Perhaps the claim about Maxwell was intentionally or unintentionally copied from this other unsubstantiated report.
FYI, Barr would have reason to be interested in Maxwell. It's common for prosecutors to offer plea deals, and there are reports that Maxwell possesses taped evidence. However, it would be unusual for the Attorney General to visit personally instead of just the case's prosecutor.
Answered by Paul Draper on October 26, 2021
I've looked for any confirmation of this around the internet every few days since first posting. The only thing I've found is people asking for sources for the initial claim.
Unless something concrete appears in the future, I'm going to say Barr did not visit Ghislaine Maxwell the day she was arrested.
Answered by BurnsBA on October 26, 2021
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