The Justice Department on Friday (August 22, 2025) released transcripts of interviews its No. 2 official did with Jeffrey Epstein's imprisoned former girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell as the Trump administration scrambles to present itself as transparent amid a fierce backlash over an earlier refusal to disclose a trove of records from the sex-trafficking case.
The disclosure represents the latest Trump administration effort to repair self-inflicted political wounds after failing to deliver on expectations that its own officials had created through conspiracy theories and bold pronouncements that never came to pass.
