Following a two-day session with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche last month, the Justice Department on Friday released transcripts of its interview with Ghislaine Maxwell, the former associate and co-conspirator of sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
Maxwell has said she would only be willing to come forward publicly and testify before lawmakers in exchange for clemency.
Though President Donald Trump’s name is mentioned throughout the document, Maxwell never offered up anything incriminating. In fact, she told Blanche, Trump was essentially a boy scout.
Maxwell, who was sentenced to 20 years in prison following her conviction in 2020 on sex trafficking charges, told Blanche that she “never” saw Trump in any compromising situation with Epstein and that she only saw the two men together in social settings, never privately.
“They were social settings. I don’t know Epstein’s ― if he had ― whatever the nature of the President’s friendship, if you will, or however you want to define that with Epstein, I was ― never witnessed. I think they were friendly like people are in social settings. I don’t ― I don’t think they were close friends or I certainly never witnessed the President in any of ― I don’t recall ever seeing him in his house, for instance. I actually never saw the President in any type of massage setting. I never witnessed the President in any inappropriate setting in any way. The President was never inappropriate with anybody,” she said.
