Ghislaine Maxwell claimed she never saw Donald Trump do anything inappropriate as a known associate of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and gushed over his presidency.
The Justice Department on Friday released the transcript of its interview with Epstein’s accomplice, which lets Trump off the hook amid questions about his relationship with the disgraced financier who the president once praised.
The interview was conducted by Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, who previously served as the president’s personal criminal defense attorney.
Blanche traveled to Florida in July to meet with Maxwell amid fallout over the administration’s failure to release the Epstein files. Maxwell is serving 20 years in prison for sex trafficking.
“Did you ever observe President Trump receive a massage?” Blanche asked Maxwell during the interview.
“Never,” she responded.
“Did you ever hear Mr. Epstein or anybody say that President Trump had done anything inappropriate with masseuses or with anybody in your world?” he also asked.
“Absolutely never, in any context,” Epstein’s former accomplice said.
Critics have blasted Maxwell as an unreliable witness who would lie to get what she wants.
After she met over two days with Blanche last month, Maxwell was moved to a minimum security prison in Texas, raising further questions about a sweetheart deal.
During the interview, Maxwell praised Trump as her team has openly pressed for a pardon.
“Trump was always very cordial and very kind to me. And I just want to say that I find — I — I admire his extraordinary achievement in becoming the President now,” Maxwell said, according to the transcript.
While there are photos of Epstein and Maxwell at Mar-a-Lago at a party in 2000, the convicted British socialite said she met Trump through her father.
“I just want to say that I met him or I believe I may have, because of my father in the ’90s,” she said.
The release of the Blanche-Maxwell interview transcript comes the same day the Justice Department began to turn over troves of Epstein files to the House Oversight Committee in response to a subpoena.
This story is developing and will be updated.
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