DOJ releases Ghislaine Maxwell interview audio
The Justice Department has released audio of an interview with Gislaine Maxwell, including comments on Jeffrey Epstein and President Donald Trump.
WASHINGTON – On August 22, the Justice Department released a transcript of an interview last month where Associate Attorney General Todd Blanche directed last month along with Githlane Maxwell, former girlfriend and associate of dishonest investor Jeffrey Epstein., She exempts President Donald Trump from fraud.
“The president was not inappropriate for anyone,” Maxwell said at one point during the two days of the marathon interview on July 24th and 25th, “In the days when I was with him, he was a gentleman in every respect.”
Maxwell, who was tried twice for perjury, was found guilty in 2021 for conspiring with Epstein and a minor in sexual abuse. She advocates her beliefs and fishes for a pardon by Trump, whom she socially interacted with years ago.
Trump has been “permitted” Maxwell, who has sentenced him to 20 years in prison for sexual abuse, but no one ever asked him about it and said it was “inappropriate” to discuss it.
The edited document release includes a digital audio file of an interview conducted by Blanche – The DOJ No. 2 official and Trump’s former personal defense lawyer – serving with Maxwell on a site near the Florida prison for 20 years for sex trafficking crimes related to Epstein.
The Trump administration has been heavily criticized in recent weeks for refusing to release large-scale investigation records it owns in connection with the case by the Justice Department and the FBI. Epstein died of suicide in a New York prison in 2019, awaiting prosecution charges on sex trafficking charges, prompting a wave of conspiracy theories that it could have something else to do with the sex ring, allegedly run with Maxwell’s help.
Maxwell’s lawyer David Oscar Marx, who attended the interview on July 24th and 25th, described him as a scapegoat that he was trying to reach the bottom of the Epstein case, despite the fact that his client and his client said it was a false claim by some of his and her fatales.
“Ghislaine Maxwell is innocent and in this case he was not so convicted,” Markus said in a statement to USA Today. “The newly released documents from the Justice Department make this clear. Maxwell answered all the questions. She refused to respond and did not dodge the questions. She supported the answer with documents and other objective evidence. Her attitude and reliability are clear to everyone.”
“We are grateful to the Department of Justice and Todd Blanche for publishing these tapes and transcripts so that people can make their own judgment,” Marx said. “We are also grateful for our continued commitment to the truth on this issue and for our rejection of a cave to the mob.”
Below is an excerpt from Maxwell’s interview with DOJ.
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche has asked Maxwell multiple questions about her relationship with Epstein, Elon Musk, the billionaire Tesla CEO who has supported Trump’s presidential election but has since developed hostile ties with the president.
Maxwell confirmed he knows Musk, saying he met him from 2010 to 2011 at a Caribbean Island event for the birthday of Google co-founder Sergey Brin. She said Epstein wasn’t there, but Musk was.
Blanche continued on whether Maxwell knew Musk beyond the event, and whether Epstein knew Musk. She said she met Mask at the Oscars for a year, and documents she saw in a criminal case showed that Epstein and Musk had communicated via email.
Bill Clinton has never visited Epstein’s private island, Maxwell says
President Bill Clinton was an acquaintance of Epstein and traveled with him after taking office with him, Maxwell said. However, she said she had never seen the former president get a massage and didn’t think he did it.
Maxwell said he met Clinton through a friend after he took office and became friends with him. “President Clinton was my friend, not Epstein’s friend,” she said.
Clinton has never visited Epstein on his private island, Maxwell said. The former president has traveled about 26 times by plane with Epstein, she said, but “I don’t think there was a massage on the plane,” she said.
“That was probably the only time I thought President Clinton had a massage,” she said. “And because I was there he didn’t.”
Maxwell moved to Cussia Prison. What did DOJ get in return?
Maxwell was moved to the Kousier detention facility after a two-day interview with Blanche. But she doesn’t seem to offer much to investigators in return, at least when it comes to leading potential criminal behavior.
“I’ve never seen women and men of all ages do anything inappropriate,” she told Blanche. “I’ve never seen any inappropriate habits.”
Maxwell added a warning.
“Now, I’m not, I’m not going to say my hand, which means it’s not inappropriate for me,” she said. What she thinks is inappropriate and what others do “may be different,” she added.
“We’re not talking about anything similar to the accusations we discussed here, so that would be ‘no’ for anybody,” she said.
Maxwell said he believes Epstein did a lot of the things he was accused of, but not all of them.
“I’m not here to protect him in any way,” she said. “I don’t want to, I don’t think he doesn’t need it, I don’t think it deserves any kind of protection, or from me to sugarcoat what he did or didn’t do.”
However, Maxwell said that Epstein had changed while he knew him.
“I don’t think the guy I met is the guy he became,” she said. “I think he became that guy for a period of time.”
At one point in the interview, Maxwell proposed that documents from her criminal case made her question whether Epstein was true to her. Epstein told others, “He never loved me and I’m not his type,” and there were “signs” that he was telling people to lie to her or hide things from her, she said.
Looking at those documents, she said she made her think Epstein had lied to her to take control of her.
Maxwell cited an example of former Victoria’s Secret CEO Les Wexner telling her she didn’t want to be seen “too much” with her due to allegations of financial misdeeds involving her father’s company. But now Maxwell says he thinks Epstein said to stop her from traveling with him when Wexner is involved.
“It was just a way to park me,” Maxwell said.
Maxwell also told Blanche that he didn’t think Epstein had died of suicide, but he didn’t think he was killed to silence him in a sex trafficking conspiracy.
“Do you think there was someone outside the prison? Blanche asked.
“I don’t see that,” Maxwell said. “Do you think I can do that? Of course it is possible. But I don’t know why, and I don’t believe in either the scary mail or this, I don’t think Epstein was a hit like that.”
“If it was actually a murder, I believe it was an internal situation,” she said.
Conspiracy theory about whether Epstein died by suicide earlier this year, when the problem was revealed in the camera system at the Metropolitan Correctional Center where he was housed.
Blanche asked Maxwell about bank records showing that Epstein sent around $30 million in money over the years to Epstein. The relocation included approximately $18.3 million in 1999, $5 million in 2002 and $7.4 million in 2007.
By 2007, Epstein was investigating sexual offences involving minors. He pleaded guilty in Florida in 2008 to prostitution involving a minor.
Maxwell denied that Epstein had paid support for recruiting minor girls to be sexually abused, as prosecutors proposed at her trial. She said it could have been sent to an account managed by an Epstein accountant, or it could have been a loan from Epstein for her business venture.
“He never paid me… for any reason,” Maxwell said. “I don’t think this money belongs to mine.”
Critics say that the two-day interview with Blanche investigators and Maxwell, who has no prosecutor, is likely an attempt to exempt fraudulent behavior for former British socialites who are complaining about her beliefs.
It seems Maxwell does just that, at least in part of the interview.
Trump and Epstein both say they were longtime friends before they dropped out, but Maxwell describes them this way: “I think they were friendly as people were in a social environment.”
“I’m not – I don’t think they’re close friends and I certainly have never witnessed the president, I don’t remember seeing him in his house, for example,” she said. “I have never actually seen the President in any type of massage environment. I have never seen him in any way or in any inappropriate environment.”
At another point, Maxwell tells Blanche how much he praises Trump.
“President Trump has always been so sincerely kind, and I just want to say I found it. “And I like him, and I always liked him.”
