{"id":167380,"date":"2025-08-22T20:42:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T20:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/167380\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T20:42:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T20:42:11","slug":"trump-was-never-inappropriate-with-anybody-epstein-accomplice-ghislaine-maxwell-told-doj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/167380\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump ‘was never inappropriate with anybody,’ Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell told DOJ"},"content":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON \u2014\u00a0The late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein\u2019s convicted accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell, told Justice Department officials last month that President Trump was \u201cnever inappropriate with anybody<\/a>\u201d in the time the disgraced financier and future commander in chief were friends.<\/p>\n

Maxwell, who is serving a 20-year prison sentence after being convicted in December 2021 of sex trafficking and conspiracy charges, sat for\u00a0two days of interviews<\/a>\u00a0led by Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche in Tallahassee, Fla., last month.<\/p>\n

\u201cI never witnessed the President in any inappropriate setting in any way,\u201d Maxwell told Blanche of her interactions with Trump when he was still an associate of Epstein in the 1990s and early 2000s.<\/p>\n

\"PhotoMaxwell said Trump was \u2018never inappropriate\u2019 while he and Jeffrey Epstein were friends. Getty Images<\/p>\n

Audio and transcripts of the interviews were released Friday as the Trump administration seeks to quash rampant speculation about Epstein, who was found dead in his Manhattan jail cell Aug. 10, 2019.<\/p>\n

Maxwell, 63, went on in the interview to push back on almost every conspiratorial accusation leveled about Epstein since his first guilty plea in Florida to soliciting sex from a minor, which saw him confined for 13 months \u2014 much of that time on work release.<\/p>\n

Those included allegations that the disgraced financier had a so-called \u201cclient list\u201d of rich and influential associates who were either involved in or blackmailed by Epstein to keep quiet about a shadowy sex trafficking ring that preyed on girls as young as 14.<\/p>\n

Maxwell likened the claims to \u201ca Salem witch trial\u201d frenzy against powerful politicians like former President Bill Clinton.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat narrative that was created and then built upon, and it just mushroomed into what \u2014 basically this is like a Salem witch trial,\u201d she explained.<\/p>\n

\"MugshotAudio and transcripts of the interviews with Ghislaine were released Friday.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople have gone and lost their minds\u00a0for\u00a0this thing. I understand that. But the issue is, how do you satisfy a mob who can\u2019t understand the lifestyle? Because it\u2019s like P. Diddy in redux on TV with Clintons and Trump,\u201d Maxwell continued.<\/p>\n

\u201cI mean, it\u2019s \u2014 it\u2019s bananas. And while some of it is real \u2014 he [Epstein] did do those things, I\u2019m definitely not disputing that,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut this was a man, they didn\u2019t even\u00a0believe he had a real business. I happen to believe\u00a0he did.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s not that interesting,\u201d Maxwell summed up her former lover at one point. \u201cHe\u2019s a disgusting\u00a0guy who did terrible things to young kids.\u201d<\/p>\n

Maxwell did break with the official story on one point, saying of Epstein\u00a0\u201cI do not believe he died by suicide,\u201d contradicting the conclusion of a July 6 memo released by the DOJ and FBI.<\/p>\n

She added that it was \u201cpossible\u201d the 66-year-old was targeted in his Manhattan jail by others, but she didn\u2019t believe that his so-called \u201cblackmail\u201d was being avenged.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI\u00a0don\u2019t think Epstein had a hit on like that. If it is indeed murder, I believe it was an internal situation,\u201d she claimed.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn prison, where I am, they will kill you or they will pay \u2014 somebody can pay a prisoner to kill you for $25 worth of commissary. That\u2019s about the going rate for a hit with a lock today.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Republican-led House Oversight Committee revealed that it had also received copies of the Maxwell transcripts \u201cin addition to many other records\u201d on Friday following a request to the DOJ, per a spokeswoman.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a lot\u2014tens of thousands of pages,\u201d the committee rep added of the first document production.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Committee intends to make these records public after thorough review to ensure any victims\u2019 identification and child sexual abuse material are redacted. The Committee will also consult with the DOJ to ensure any documents released do not negatively impact ongoing criminal cases and investigations.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON \u2014\u00a0The late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein\u2019s convicted accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell, told Justice Department officials last month that President…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":167381,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,69,49022,15053,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,80,67,586,132,5230,68,1154,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-167380","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-donald-trump","10":"tag-ghislaine-maxwell","11":"tag-jeffrey-epstein","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-city","14":"tag-newyork","15":"tag-newyorkcity","16":"tag-ny","17":"tag-nyc","18":"tag-politics","19":"tag-united-states","20":"tag-united-states-of-america","21":"tag-unitedstates","22":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","23":"tag-us","24":"tag-us-news","25":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115074363926736818","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}