A fresh perspective on Donald Trump’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein has been offered by Ghislaine Maxwell.
Last month, the Department of Justice (DOJ) formally revealed a conversation between the convicted child sex trafficker and Epstein confidante, 63, and Attorney General Todd Blanche on Friday, August 22.
A transcript of the two-day interview, which lasted more than 300 pages and included audio files, was released by the DOJ in late July. During the interview, Maxwell answered questions concerning Epstein and expressed her doubts that his death in 2019 was a suicide.
Blanche, 51, questioned Maxwell throughout the interview over the connection she saw between Epstein and Trump, 79, whose administration came under fire for how it handled the Epstein case.
Maxwell remarked, “I don’t know how they met and how they became friends.” On the few occasions I did witness them together, they were amiable, but I did see them together. They looked friendly, after all.
Maxwell claimed that she never saw the president and Epstein in private settings and that she only ever saw them in social situations.
Maxwell claimed that photos of herself, Trump, and Epstein taken throughout the years were shot in social situations when asked about them.
I’m not sure if Epstein had any kind of connection with the president, if you will, or however you want to define that relationship, but I never saw it with Epstein,” she stated. They seemed nice to me, as people usually are in social situations.
She went on to say, “I don’t think they were close friends, and I definitely never saw the president in any of them—for example, I don’t remember ever seeing him in his house.”
In fact, Maxwell underlined, I never saw the president in a massage situation. I never once saw the president in any unsuitable situation. The president never treated anyone improperly. During my time with him, he was a gentleman in every way.
Maxwell told the DOJ that she thought she met Trump in the 1990s through her father, British media owner Robert Maxwell, and that she had never heard anything about Trump being inappropriate with masseuses.
According to Maxwell, her father was a big fan of Trump, and he was also very friendly and polite to her.
According to Maxwell, she last met Trump in the middle of the 2000s. I respect his remarkable accomplishment of becoming president. She also told the DOJ that she liked him and had liked him for a long time. That, then, is the essence of my relationship with him.
When questioned about Bill Clinton, Maxwell said that he was her friend rather than Epstein’s and that she didn’t think the former president ever got a massage while with Epstein.
Six years after Epstein was arrested on sex trafficking charges in 2019 and died in his jail cell a month later in what investigators determined to be a suicide by hanging, the DOJ released Maxwell’s transcript, in which she seems to be requesting a pardon.
In 2021, Maxwell was found guilty of aiding Epstein in abusing young girls through child sex trafficking. She was recently moved to a minimum-security federal prison camp in Texas, the same institution where Elizabeth Holmes, the founder of Theranos, was imprisoned.
When they joined the Trump administration earlier this year, FBI Director Kash Patel and Attorney General Pam Bondi had promised further details on the Epstein case. Public interest in the matter was rekindled in July when the FBI and DOJ jointly issued a document declaring that the investigation into Epstein’s alleged crimes and death was finished and that there was no supposed client list.
Elon Musk claimed that Trump was in the Epstein files on X after departing the Trump White House in May, but he eventually took the claim down.
Trump has rejected the files as a fraud created by political rivals, despite the fact that his previous contacts with Epstein are well-documented.
