The Justice Department releases the transcription of Ghislaine Maxwell’s interview
After a two-day session with the attached attorney general Todd Blanche last month, the Department of Justice published on Friday transcripts of his interview with Ghislaine Maxwell, the former associate and co-conspirador of the sex dealer Jeffrey Epstein.
During the interview, Maxwell, who openly seeks a forgiveness of President Donald Trump, praised the president repeatedly and said he was essentially a boy scout.
Maxwell told Blanche that “never” he saw Trump in a compromising situation with Epstein and that he only saw the two men together in social environments, never privately.
“I do not think they were close friends or I have certainly never witnessed the president in any of those who do not remember having seen him at home, for example. I never really saw the president in any kind of massage. I was never witnessing the president in any inappropriate environment in any way. The president was never inappropriate with anyone,” he said.
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Trump sent Blanche, previously his personal lawyer, to interview Maxwell last month in the middle of a rage for the administration’s refusal to free the government archives from his prosecution of Epstein, who died in prison in 2019 after being accused of minors of sex trafficking. Trump socialized for years with Epstein and Maxwell.
Maxwell was sentenced to 20 years in prison after his sentence in 2020 for positions of sex trafficking as an accomplice of Epstein. At the time she was accused, Trump offered good wishes.
“I just wish you the best, frankly,” Trump said. “I met her numerous over the years, especially since I lived in Palm Beach, and I guess they lived in Palm Beach.”
Not only Maxwell did not see Trump receive massages, but Maxwell also told Blanche that Epstein never recruited a Mar-A-Lago masseuse, unlike Trump’s recent statements that he cut the ties with Epstein after doing exactly that.
As for the “customer list” that Attorney General Pam Bondi once said that he had sat on her desk in the department, Maxwell said it was non -existent.
Blanche asked him if he had a list or list of names “in his head” or “names that come to the mind” of people who knew that they received massages when they were with Epstein.
“No, there is no list. There is no list of people who receive massages. I don’t have, I can barely remember all people. I can barely remember. It is hard for me to remind the real people I met … so I don’t have, and there is no list. There was never a list.
When Maxwell was asked if he ever listened to Epstein to talk about that list, she said “never” mentioned it.
Maxwell also did everything possible to praise Trump for becoming president, essentially offering his own wishes to the man who could let her out of prison.
“Trump was always very cordial and very friendly with me. And I just mean that I find: I, I admire his extraordinary achievement to become president now. And I like it, and I have always liked it. So that is the sum and substance of my whole relationship with him,” he said.
And as for the birthday card, according to reports, Trump gave Epstein a spicy note, that was not something Maxwell could remember.
“I don’t remember,” he said.
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Blanche testimony is extremely unusual; In general, he would not be an official of the high -ranking justice department who would conduct an interview like Maxwell, but the prosecutors who worked his case.
The Department of Justice has apparently already allowed Maxwell to enjoy some benefits of testifying for Blanche in private while the Epstein Files scandal shook the Trump administration earlier this summer. They transferred it from the prison to a minimum security prisoner field, unlike the regulations that require that it be housed in an installation that requires at least a “low” level security for sexual criminals.
Although the Department of Justice said last month that it would not release its files in the case of Epstein, on Friday the department began to share the material with the House Supervision Committee led by Republicans in response to a summons.
“Production contains thousands of documents,” said a committee spokesman on Friday, adding that the committee “intends to make these records public after an exhaustive review to ensure that the child’s sexual identification and abuse material of the victims are written.”
The Democrats have criticized the republicans’ plans to make fragmentary disseminations of Epstein’s archives and also the unusual interview of the Department of Justice with Maxwell, especially in the light of their favorable prison transfer.
Trump said Friday at the Oval office that the entire Epstein issue is a hoax.
“You have many people who could mention in those files that do not deserve to be,” Trump said. “It is a Democratic hoax. It’s just a hoax. The whole issue of Epstein is a Democratic hoax.”
Trump also said that former President Bill Clinton had been on Epstein’s private island 28 times, but Maxwell told Blanche that he never did.
“He never. Absolutely never was,” Maxwell said. “And I can be sure of that because there is no way for him to have gone: I don’t think there is any way that he had gone to the island, if he hadn’t been there. Because I don’t think he had an independent friendship, if you do, with Epstein.”