{"id":314162,"date":"2025-08-23T04:20:49","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T04:20:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=314162"},"modified":"2025-08-25T07:05:23","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T07:05:23","slug":"ghislaine-maxwell-never-saw-trump-in-any-inappropriate-setting-interview-transcript-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=314162","title":{"rendered":"Ghislaine Maxwell never saw Trump in \u2018any inappropriate setting\u2019, interview transcript shows"},"content":{"rendered":"

Joseph Gedeon \u2013 The Guardian Aug 22, 2025<\/strong><\/h1>\n

The US Department of Justice has released the transcript and audio recording of an interview conducted by Todd Blanche, the deputy attorney general, with the convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In a post on X<\/a>, Blanche said the materials were being released \u201cin the interest of transparency\u201d, providing links to the transcript and to audio files<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The release includes documentation from a two-day interview conducted on 24 and 25 July. The materials comprise redacted transcripts for both days, along with multiple audio recordings \u2013 seven separate parts plus test recordings for day one, and four parts plus test recordings for day two.<\/p>\n

The department of justice gave Maxwell limited immunity to allow her to talk about her criminal case, but did not promise anything<\/a> in exchange for her testimony, according to the transcript that was released.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe most important part of this agreement is that this isn\u2019t a cooperation agreement, meaning that by you meeting with us today, we\u2019re really just meeting,\u201d Blanche told Maxwell. He added: \u201cI\u2019m not promising to do anything.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Jeffrey Epstein and alleged child sex procurer Ghislaine Maxwell, daughter of publisher and suspected Mossad agent Robert Maxwell. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

Maxwell, 63, was Jeffrey Epstein\u2019s longtime associate and was convicted on five counts, including sex trafficking of minors, and sentenced to 20 years in prison in 2022 for helping Epstein sexually abuse teenage girls.<\/p>\n

Epstein died by suicide in federal custody in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.<\/p>\n

Maxwell, in the released transcript, said she never saw Trump do anything inappropriate and she repeatedly showered Trump with praise. That sort of comment would have been welcomed by Trump and his circle who have been keen to dismiss concerns about this relationship with Epstein which have roiled his support base.<\/p>\n

\u201cI actually never saw the president in any type of massage setting. I never witnessed the president in any inappropriate setting in any way. The president was never inappropriate with anybody,\u201d Maxwell said.<\/p>\n

But she did detail the social relationship between Trump and Epstein, who cultivated a wide and powerful social circle for many years.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know how they met, and I don\u2019t know how they became friends. I certainly saw them together and I remember the few times I observed them together, but they were friendly. I mean, they seemed friendly,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

She added: \u201cI think they were friendly like people are in social settings. I don\u2019t \u2026 I don\u2019t think they were close friends or I certainly never witnessed the president in any of \u2026 I don\u2019t recall ever seeing him in his house, for instance,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

The justice department lawyers also quizzed Maxwell extensively about Epstein\u2019s relationship with former president Bill Clinton, who travelled multiple times on Epstein\u2019s plane and \u2013 like Trump \u2013 has denied any wrongdoing or knowledge of wrongdoing.<\/p>\n

\u201cPresident Clinton liked me, and we got along terribly well. But I never saw that warmth or that \u2026 that warmth, or however you want to characterize it, with Mr Epstein,\u201d she said of Clinton\u2019s contacts with Epstein.<\/p>\n

Maxwell also said she did not remember Trump having been in Epstein\u2019s 50th birthday book, which she assembled.<\/p>\n

The Wall Street Journal reported in July that the book\u2019s collection of letters included one with Trump\u2019s name on it. The president has repeatedly denied writing the note and filed a lawsuit accusing the Journal of libel.<\/p>\n

Maxwell said she saw some parts of the birthday book before her trial, during its discovery phase.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was nothing from President Trump,\u201d Maxwell said.<\/p>\n

She also denied remembering any picture of a naked woman, a detail the Journal previously reported.<\/p>\n

Maxwell said Epstein did not know what to do to celebrate his 50th, and she suggested a birthday book like \u201cmy mom did \u2026 for my dad\u201d.<\/p>\n

She added: \u201cHe said, I love that idea.\u201d<\/p>\n

After her interview with justice department lawyers, Maxwell was moved from the low-security federal prison in Florida, where she had been serving a 20-year sentence, to a minimum-security prison camp in Texas.<\/p>\n

Neither her lawyer nor the federal Bureau of Prisons have explained the reason for the move which caused a storm of criticism and raised eyebrows as to whether Maxwell get some sort of deal for her cooperation.<\/p>\n

One legal expert said that the release<\/a> of the transcript was Trump \u201cgetting what he wants\u201d from the interview in the latest effort to calm the political storms around his links to Epstein that have dogged him for weeks.<\/p>\n

\u201cFrom what we see from this transcript, Trump is getting what he wants. She is saying that Trump didn\u2019t do anything untoward, nothing criminal. That\u2019s what Trump wants. Ideally, he\u2019d also like names of Democrats who did do something wrong, because that\u2019s what the Maga base has been promised,\u201d Dave Aronberg, former Democratic state attorney for Palm Beach county, told CNN<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The House oversight committee has received the first round of Epstein documents from the justice department, which includes 33,000 pages of documents, according to panel staff.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe committee intends to make these records public after thorough review to ensure any victims\u2019 identification and child sexual abuse material are redacted,\u201d a spokesperson for committee chair James Comer said. \u201cThe committee will also consult with the [justice department] to ensure any documents released do not negatively impact ongoing criminal cases and investigations.\u201d<\/p>\n

The committee subpoenaed files related to Epstein following a public outcry over the administration\u2019s handling of its promises to release more information related to Epstein\u2019s conduct and death.<\/p>\n

House Democrats seized on the issue and helped push Comer to subpoena the justice department for documents.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Trump DoJ is providing records at a far quicker pace than anything\u201d than it did during Joe Biden\u2019s presidency, the committee spokesperson continued.<\/p>\n

Source\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ghislaine Maxwell has obviously made a deal with the Trump administration. Her testimony will clear Trump of any wrongdoing. In return for which she will receive a reduced sentence, be pardoned or freed <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":313263,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[37,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-314162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Israel_Anti-Semitism_Zionism_and_US-UK_allies","category-historic-sexual-abuse"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=314162"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":314173,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314162\/revisions\/314173"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/313263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=314162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=314162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=314162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}