Maxwell Confirms She Did Not Witness Inappropriate Behavior From Trump
Ghislaine Maxwell, the convicted ‘madame’ for disgraced sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, confirmed to the Department of Justice during a series of sit-down meetings that she did not witness Donald Trump exhibit inappropriate behavior on the occasions that she met him.
Maxwell had met with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche for a total of nine hours late last month. According to her attorney, she had been forthright during questioning and did not “plead the fifth.”
According to ABC News’ sources, Maxwell reportedly said that Trump had “never done anything in her presence that would have caused concern.”
There is an audio recording of Maxwell’s conversation with Blanche, according to reports. ABC News noted that “public release of the transcripts could come as soon as this week.”
There is speculation that Maxwell is angling for a “pardon” or sentence “commutation” in exchange for her cooperation on naming the late Jeffrey Epstein’s clients.
She was slated to appear before Congress, but had made a number of controversial demands, including an insistence on “full immunity.”
Trump, for his part, on Wednesday reaffirmed his belief that the Epstein files are ” total bullsh*t.”
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A number of major news outlets have been fueling unsubstantiated rumors about Donald Trump’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. The Wall Street Journal wrote a particularly notorious piece that attributed a strange “birthday card” allegedly sent to Epstein from Donald Trump.
It was noted that the “birthday card” bore no resemblance to Donald Trump’s writing and he never drew pictures on his stationary messages. Trump subsequently sued the Wall Street Journal for $10 billion.
“The Wall Street Journal, and Rupert Murdoch, personally, were warned directly” by Trump that the letter “was a FAKE and, if they print it, they will be sued,” according to the president’s Truth Social post.
The president then made good on his threat.
“We have just filed a POWERHOUSE Lawsuit against everyone involved in publishing the false, malicious, defamatory, FAKE NEWS ‘article’ in the useless ‘rag’ that is, The Wall Street Journal,” Trump wrote.
“I hope Rupert and his ‘friends’ are looking forward to the many hours of depositions and testimonies they will have to provide in this case,” he added.
Maxwell’s testimony is similar to another Epstein witness: Virginia Giuffre. She also stated in sworn testimony that she had never witnessed allegedly “sleazy” behavior from Trump.
“It’s true that he didn’t partake in any sex with us,” Giuffre said. “It’s not true that he flirted with me. Donald Trump never flirted with me.”
When asked again if Trump had ever flirted with her, Giuffre said, “He didn’t. That’s inaccurate.”
Thus, two of the key witnesses to the Epstein scandal have said on the record that they have never seen any evidence that Donald Trump engaged in any inappropriate behavior with Jeffrey Epstein or any of his victims.
Earlier this week, Trump said he had no knowledge of Ghislaine Maxwell’s recent prison transfer and didn’t personally approve it.
“I didn’t know about it at all, nope, I read about it just like you did,” Trump said Tuesday.
The president was asked about Maxwell during an event tied to the upcoming 2028 Olympic Games, which will be held in Los Angeles. A reporter first asked whether he had signed off on the transfer.
Then came a follow-up, “Do you believe Maxwell is credible?”
Trump didn’t answer that directly. Instead, he defended Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche — his former personal attorney — who met with Maxwell one-on-one just before the transfer.
“Very highly thought of person,” Trump said. “Respected by everybody.”
Blanche questioned Maxwell for hours in connection to the ongoing federal investigation into Jeffrey Epstein, Newsweek reported. Maxwell, convicted in 2021 on federal sex-trafficking charges, is lobbying to overturn her sentence on appeal.
