In a hundred-page transcript from Ghislaine Maxwell’s Department of Justice interview, the ex-girlfriend of dishonest financier Jeffrey Epstein spoke brilliantly about President Donald Trump, calling him a “gentleman in every respect” and described him as “friendly” with Epstein.
Both Trump supporters and his democratic opponents are seeking documents regarding the case being made public. The transcript released Friday also details Maxwell knew about Epstein’s interactions with other well-known men, including former President Bill Clinton, current director of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and Prince Andrew of the UK.
Here’s the key points:
What documents have been published by the government?
The transcript comes from Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, which was conducted at Maxwell last month. It came when the Trump administration scrambled to present itself as something transparent, amidst the scramble and rebelling even among some of Trump’s most loyal supporters. I realized my broken promise We will publish more information about the Epstein case.
Trump is faced with questions as he endured continued scrutiny about his long-standing friendship with Epstein and his administration’s handling of evidence from cases of sex trafficking.
The anger peaked when Attorney General Pam Bondi said it last month Did not leave a “client list” He said that after previously suggesting it was on her desk, no other evidence would be released.
Blanche interviewed Maxwell, who was later imprisoned in a Florida courthouse.
What Maxwell said about Trump
The transcript shows Maxwell repeatedly denies under the question from Blanche.
Maxwell knew about Trump and remembered that he first met him in 1990 when Robert Maxwell, the newspaper’s big father, was the owner of the New York Daily News.
“My dad was friendly and liked him so much that he might have met Donald Trump at the time,” Maxwell said.
“As far as I’m concerned, President Trump has always been very sincerely kind,” Maxwell said. “I now admire his extraordinary achievements as president. And I like him, and I’ve always liked him. That’s the sum and substance of my overall relationship with him.”
Maxwell told Blanche he didn’t know how Epstein and Trump met, or how they became friends.
“I certainly saw them together, and I remember the few times I observed them together, but they were friendly,” she said. “I mean, they seemed friendly.”
Maxwell said he recalled seeing Epstein and Trump in a social environment, not in a private environment. When asked by Blanche if she had ever seen Trump get a massage, she replied, “Never.”
“I’ve never actually seen the president in any type of massage environment,” Maxwell said. “I never witnessed the President in any way in an inappropriate environment. He was not inappropriate for anyone. In the time I was with him, he was a gentleman in every way.”
When Maxwell last saw Trump
Maxwell estimated he hadn’t seen Trump since the mid-2000s. When asked if she had heard of Epstein, if someone else was saying Trump “did something inappropriate for Massage,” or if someone else on the track said that.
Maxwell said she and Epstein often go to Trump’s Mar Lago Club separately, but she didn’t say that specifically. “I love going there,” she says, and Epstein “maybe I’ll go to the spa. I certainly did.”
Maxwell said RFK Junior and Epstein were friends.
Maxwell told Blanche that while he was quized about which powerful man was friends with Epstein, Epstein knew Robert Kennedy Jr., who heads the Department of Health and Human Services under Trump. Maxwell said they went on a trip together in the early 1990s “Dinosaur Bone Hunting in the Dakotas.”
Asked by Blanche if he recalls the inappropriate behaviours that Kennedy was involved in on the trip, Maxwell replied, “I have never seen anything inappropriate for Mr. Kennedy.”
What she said about Epstein and Prince Andrew
Maxwell spoke positively about Prince Andrew of England, dismissing the late Virginia Giuffre’s claim that he was paid to have an affair with Andrew and had sex with her at Maxwell’s London home as “trash.” She refused to introduce Epstein to Prince Andrew using the British idiom to explain what they felt they had no common.
“I couldn’t imagine them being friends. There was never two chalks and cheese. So there was actually nothing to connect them,” she told Blanche.
Maxwell questioned the details of Giuffre’s claims and informed Blanche that she was not even in London when sex took place. Rather, she said she was in a country celebrating her mother’s 80th birthday.
Maxwell said that her home was so small, about 900 square feet (83.6 square meters), that it was physically impossible to have sex in the bathroom, as Giuffre claimed.
Giuffre became an advocate for sex trafficking survivors after appearing as a central figure Epstein’s long-term fall. prince I settled down with Giuffre In 2022, she agreed to make a “substantial donation” to her survivor’s organization for a private amount.
Maxwell discussed other famous men
When asked about the trip she went with a well-known man, Maxwell said it was difficult to remember the details as they got “blurred.”
“And after a while, the incredible work you have is when you’re putting so much pressure on you and you spend so much time with extraordinary people like President Trump, that’s blurry,” she said. “That’s just that.”
Blanche pushed Maxwell to know if they knew certain famous names, such as Elon Musk and former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo. Maxwell said he met Musk around 2010 or 2011 at an event for Google’s co-founders, and then saw Musk again at the Oscars.
Maxwell told Blanche that she was friends with Cuomo’s ex-wife Kelly, but they only met a few times and didn’t think Cuomo knew Epstein. Maxwell said he doesn’t remember the man either flying Epstein’s plane or visiting his house.
Not only does Maxwell’s interview help Trump, but also former President Bill Clinton, a one-off White House resident with an Epstein tie.
Maxwell told Blanche that Clinton was originally a friend, not Epstein, and that he never saw him get a massage.
She said they were with him, in two dozen or so they traveled by Epstein plane.
“That was probably the only time I thought President Clinton had a massage,” Maxwell said. “And because I was there he didn’t.”
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Reported by Michael R. Sissac, Adriana Gomez Ricon, Alana Durkin Richer and Matt Brown.
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