Ghislaine Maxwell, the former girlfriend and imprisoned associate of Jeffrey Epstein, denied in her interviews with the U.S. Department of Justice that she witnessed any inappropriate behavior by former President Donald Trump.
The Trump administration released hundreds of pages of transcripts and audio recordings from interviews that Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche conducted with Maxwell last month. According to the documents, Maxwell stated that a much-discussed “client list” does not exist and denied seeing Trump engage in any form of sexual behavior. She claimed, “In fact, I have never seen the President in any kind of massage parlor.”
Maxwell recalled hearing about Trump and possibly meeting him for the first time in 1990, when her father, Robert Maxwell, the newspaper magnate, owned the New York Daily News. Maxwell said she had been to Trump’s Mar-a-Lago, Florida estate frequently, sometimes alone, but had not seen Trump since the mid-2000s. She was asked if she had ever heard from Epstein or anyone else that Trump “had done anything inappropriate with masseuses” or anyone else, and she replied: “Absolutely never, in any context.”
Maxwell was interviewed over two days in July in a Florida courthouse. She was granted limited immunity, which allowed her to speak freely without fear of prosecution for any statement she made, except in the case of making a false statement. Maxwell is currently serving a 20-year prison sentence for a sex trafficking scheme and has petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to reconsider that decision.
Meanwhile, the Justice Department on Friday began sending the House Oversight Committee data from the investigation, which the panel plans to make public after removing classified information.
President Trump has accused his political opponents of using the case to distract from what he sees as victories for his administration. However, he has also faced pressure from the Republican Party for more transparency regarding the Jeffrey Epstein investigation.
