Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said it’s “impossible” to know if Ghislaine Maxwell, who is openly seeking a pardon from President Donald Trump, was telling the truth during her two-day interview with the Justice Department.
“It’s an impossible question to answer,” Blanche told CNN’s Kaitlan Collins on Wednesday when she asked if he believed Maxwell, sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s convicted co-conspirator. “I met with her for two days. To determine whether a witness is credible takes weeks and weeks and weeks.”
In August, the Justice Department released the transcripts of Maxwell’s July interview, in which she openly praised Trump, adding that she “never” saw him in any compromising situation with Epstein.
“I don’t think they were close friends ... I never witnessed the president in any inappropriate setting in any way,” Maxwell, who is serving 20 years in prison for sex trafficking charges, said in the transcript of her interview with the Justice Department in July.
Blanche told Collins the point of the interview was not to “pressure-test” Maxwell’s answers, but to allow her to speak because, he claimed, no one had given her that chance before.
