An associate of Jeffrey Epstein says she never witnessed Trump in any "inappropriate situation."
According to Ghislaine Maxwell, Trump was not a close friend of Epstein and never visited his home, according to information released by the US government.
247 - Ghislaine Maxwell, a convicted associate of Jeffrey Epstein, told prosecutors in July that she had never seen President Donald Trump in any "inappropriate situation," according to transcripts of interviews released by the Justice Department.
“In fact, I have never seen the president [Trump] in any kind of massage context. I have never witnessed the president in any inappropriate situation in any way. The president has never been inappropriate with anyone,” Maxwell stated, according to the transcript released by the department.
Maxwell also stated that Trump was not a close friend of Epstein and that he never visited his home.
Furthermore, Maxwell said he did not recall whether Trump sent Epstein a birthday card to congratulate him on his 50th birthday, information published in July by the Wall Street Journal and which later served as the basis for the lawsuit filed by Trump against media mogul Rupert Murdoch and the journalists involved.
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche interviewed Maxwell on July 24 and 25 in response to the public outcry following the Trump administration's decision to withdraw documents from the Epstein case from publication.
However, the release of the case documents faced another obstacle this week after a federal judge in New York denied the Justice Department's request to make public the grand jury testimonies and related attachments.
In 2022, a New York court sentenced Maxwell to 20 years in prison for her role in the conspiracy with Epstein to sexually exploit minors. In April, Maxwell's defense filed a petition with the U.S. Supreme Court seeking her release, arguing that she should not face criminal charges due to the plea agreement Epstein signed in 2007.
In 2019, U.S. prosecutors charged Epstein with trafficking minors for sexual exploitation—a crime punishable by up to 40 years in prison—and conspiracy to commit such trafficking, which carries a sentence of up to five years in prison.
According to prosecutors, between 2002 and 2005, Epstein had sexual relations with dozens of underage teenage girls at his residences in New York and Florida. He paid them hundreds of dollars in cash and then designated some of the victims as recruiters to attract more girls, some as young as 14.
In early July 2019, a Manhattan court decided to keep Epstein in custody without bail following his formal indictment. Later that month, it was reported that Epstein had been found “semiconscious” in a cell and subsequently died. The investigation concluded that he committed suicide. (With information from Sputnik).
