Ghislaine Maxwell, the co-conspirator condemned from the sexual offender Jeffrey Epstein, told a senior official of the United States Department of Justice that President Donald Trump was “a gentleman in all aspects” and that he never saw him do anything inappropriate with anyone associated with Epstein.
“Absolutely ever, in any context,” Maxwell said.
Maxwell told the Attorney General Todd Blanche during a two -day two -day interview session last month that during his time with Epstein, who ranged from the beginning of the 1990s to the mid -2000s, never saw or heard or heard any inappropriate or illegal activity by Trump or any of the known men who associated with EPStein, according to an transcription, of the conversation conversation on Friday.
“I was never witnessing the president in any inappropriate environment in any way. The president was never inappropriate with anyone. In the times with him, he was a gentleman in all aspects,” said Maxwell.
Maxwell’s comments occurred when the Trump administration remains mired in the controversy about their decision not to free their research files on Epstein.
Reports published in the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal Last month he indicated that the decision not to release the files occurred after President Trump was informed that his name was among those who appeared several times in the documents. The president has denied that he was told that his name appeared in the archives. The appearance of a name in Epstein’s archives is not evidence of illicit activity.
The transcription published on Friday indicates that Maxwell’s lawyers initiated the request of the meeting with Blanche, but their representatives have insisted that the administration has not made promises in relation to the interview.
Ghislaine Maxwell and Donald Trump attend the 50th anniversary for both the Ford modeling agency and Pantene Hair Care Products in New York, on October 30, 1997.
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“We have not yet talked to the president or anyone about forgiveness,” said Maxwell’s lawyer, David Markus, outside the United States prosecutor’s office in Tallahassee, where the interview took place last month.
“Of course, everyone knows that Mrs. Maxwell would welcome any relief,” he added.
Trump, said Maxwell, Blanche, was “always very cordial and very friendly to me” in his interactions with him.
“And I just want to say what I find: I admire his extraordinary achievement to become the president now. And I like it, and I always liked it,” he said, according to transcription.
Before some accusation of inappropriate sexual behavior against Epstein appeared in 2005, Trump spoke brilliantly about Epstein, and the judicial records have included documents and testimonies that indicate that Trump was a passenger of one of Epstein’s airplanes at least eight times between 1993 and 1997. The two native New Yorkers appeared in photographs together in Mara-Algo, President Palm Beach Beach Beach Beach Beach Beach Club, and in several public events in Manhattan.
Trump told New York Magazine In 2002 he met Epstein for 15 years and described him as an “excellent type.”
“It is very fun to be. Trump, then in his first presidential mandate, said he had ended his relationship with Epstein 15 years before.
“He knew him as everyone in Palm Beach knew him,” Trump told journalists at the Oval office in July 2019. “I had a fall with him a long time ago. I don’t think I talked to him for 15 years. I wasn’t a fan.
More recently, the president said he separated from Epstein after discovering that Epstein was allegedly hunting the employees of the spa in Mar-a-Lago, the president’s private club in Palm Beach. After Maxwell’s arrest in 2020 for helping Epstein’s sex trafficking, Trump was remarkably more sympathetic.
“I only wish her the best, frankly. I have met her numerous over the years, especially since I lived in Palm Beach and I guess they lived in Palm Beach. But I wish her the best, whatever it is,” said the president.
Maxwell said that for the first time he knew Trump through his late father, the British magnate of British Robert Maxwell publication, who bought the NY Daily News in 1991.
“I may have met Donald Trump at that time because my father was very friendly with him and he liked it a lot,” Maxwell said. “And I think [it] It should be said that he also liked [Trump’s first wife] Ivana because she was also from Czechoslovakia where my father was. “
Maxwell said he only saw Trump and Epstein together in social environments and did not introduce the two men.
“I don’t know how they met, and I don’t know how they became friends. I certainly saw them together and I remember the few times I watched them together. But they were friendly. I mean, they seemed friendly,” Maxwell said.
Maxwell, 63, ex -girlfriend and companion of Epstein, was granted limited immunity for his discussions with Blanche. It was convicted in 2021 for sex trafficking and other crimes related to its facilitation and participation in the sexual exploitation of Epstein of minor girls.
Maxwell did not testify in his own defense, but his lawyers insisted on his innocence throughout the trial. They argued that the government was processing Maxwell as a “substitute” for Epstein, after the accused of child sexual treatment died in federal custody in 2019.
In the interview with Blanche, Maxwell continued to insist that he was not involved in the sexual exploitation of minors.
“I am not saying that Mr. Epstein did not do those things,” Maxwell told Blanche. “I’m not here to defend it. But what I can say is that I didn’t participate in that activity.”
At his sentence hearing in 2022, a federal prosecutor said that Maxwell had not demonstrated “absolutely no regrets” and had “made misrepresentations when he stayed well.” A federal judge imposed a 20 -year prison sentence.
Maxwell has appealed his sentence, but so far he has not been successful. He currently has a pending request before the United States Supreme Court for a review of his case. The Department of Justice has opposed its request, and the Superior Court has not yet indicated whether to listen to its appeal.
At the end of the interview session last month, Blanche told Maxwell that he had no plan for what he could come later, but that he would continue communicating with his lawyers.
“So I will talk to Mr. Markus about what we are going to do next, in any case,” said Blanche.
“I’m not being shy. I don’t know yet. I don’t know,” he said.
