There were no bombshells in newly-released transcripts and audio files from the Justice Department's interviews last month with convicted sex offender and Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell, after the department touted the interviews as part of its effort to increase transparency when it comes to Epstein.
The hundreds of pages of redacted transcripts and handful of audio clips released Aug. 22 showed that Maxwell questions a medical examiner's finding that the financier killed himself in jail in 2019, while he was awaiting a criminal trial on federal sex-trafficking charges. However, Maxwell waived away conspiracy theories suggesting someone outside the jail had him killed, and said she never saw any man in Epstein's orbit acting inappropriately with a woman.
"I never, ever saw any man doing something inappropriate with a woman of any age," Maxwell told Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, a former defense lawyer to Trump who handled the interviews personally.
The non-revelatory transcripts probably won't satisfy people who insist Epstein maintained a list of powerful clients who participated in a sex-trafficking ring, as he rubbed shoulders with some of the world's most rich and powerful men. The Trump administration has faced outrage from members of Trump's own base for refusing to release its files on Jeffrey Epstein, after several people in Trump's inner circle fanned the flames of Epstein-related conspiracy theories for years.
