Washington (AP) – Jeffrey Epstein’s imprisonment ex -girlfriend The Department of Justice repeatedly denied any sexual inappropriate conversation with Donald Trump, according to the records issued on Friday, which means that the Republican President was to distance away from humiliated financers.
The Trump administration released hundreds of pages transcriptions from the interview, which was conducted by sub -Attorney General Todd Blanches held with Ghislane Maxwell last month as the administration was scrambled to introduce themselves as a transparent between a fierce backlash among a fierce backlash. Refusal to disclose a contingent of records from the sex-trafficking case.
In the records, Maxwell repeatedly showed Trump to bathe with praise and refused to interrogate the blanch that he saw Trump engaged in sexual behavior in any form. The administration was eager to make such a refusal public at a time when the President has faced questions about long -standing friendship with Epstein and as his administration has continuously investigated the matter to deal with the evidence.
The Trump administration represents the latest administration’s effort to repair self-inspired political lesions after the transcript disclosure fails Distribute the expectations made by your own officers Through the principles of conspiracy and bold pronunciation which never passed. By making public two -day interviews public, officer Trump appears to temporarily hopes to temporarily keep anger on the bay, even they send evidence of the Congress that they had kept from the first scene.
“I have never seen the President in any kind of massage setting,” Maxwell said, according to transcript. “I have never seen the President in any improper setting in any way. The President was never unfair to anyone. At the time when I was with him, he was a gentleman in all matters.”
Maxwell remembered knowing about Trump and possibly met him for the first time in 1990, when his newspaper Magnet Father, Robert Maxwell, was the owner of New York Daily News.
He speculated that he had not seen Trump again in a social setting since the mid -2000s. Asked whether he ever heard Epstein or someone else said Trump “did anything unfair with Masis” or someone else in his class, Maxwell replied, “never, in any context.”
Maxwell, an ontime socialite, was convicted in 2021 in 2021 for helping sexually abusing by Epstein, interviewed by Blanch in a courtyard in Florida during two days.
Blanche predicts the interview to Maxwell that he was given limited immunity, allowing him to speak independently without fear of prosecution for anything. The only exception, he said, if she lied or made a statement what she had said earlier.
After his interview, Maxwell was transferred from low-protection federal jail to Florida Where she was serving a 20-year sentence in the minimum-protection jail camp in Texas. Neither his lawyer nor the federal bureau of jails have cited the reason for the move.
Epstein case had long attracted public attention because Dhanwan Financer’s social relations for major data in yearsPrince Andrew, including former President Bill Clinton and Trump, who said that his relationship with Epstein ended years ago. Epstein was arrested in 2019 on sex-smuggling charges, accused of sexually abusing dozens of teenage girls, and was A month later, a cell in New York Jail was found dead, which was described as suicide by investigators.
The saga has consumed the Trump administration in the last month after the announcement of two-pests from the FBI and the Department of Justice that Epstein killed himself despite the principles of conspiracy, that a “customer list” Attorney General Palm Bondi had introduced at his desk, was not really present and no additional documents were released from high-profile investigation.
The announcement created displeasure with the theorists of the conspiracy, online sleeves and Trump supporters, who were expecting evidence of a government coverup. The expectations of officials, including FBI directors Kash Patel and Dan Bongino, were conducted by the comments who had repeatedly promoted the idea that harmful details about the prominent people were being stopped at the podcast before taking their current positions.
For example, Patel said in at least one podcast interview before becoming a director that Epstein’s “Black Book” was under the direct control of the “Black Book” “FBI director.
In February, the administration had early stum Invited at White House in February And the binders provided by Bondi marked the “The Epstein Files: Phase 1” and “Dilasified”, including documents that were already in public domains.
After the first release was flat, Bandi said that the authorities were already working on a “truck load” of evidence, saying that it was handed over by the FBI and raised the expectations of upcoming release.
But after reviewing the evidence of evidence in the government’s possession, the Department of Justice said last month that “further disclosure would not be proper or warrant.” The department stated that a lot of material was placed under the sealed by a court to protect the victims and it would have been broadcast in public, only a fraction “, Epstein had gone for tests.”
Facing anger with his Aadhaar, Trump demanded the page to be twisted quickly, stopped the interrogation of Bondi about Epstein at the White House Cabinet meeting and derying as “weak” supporters, who said that “Jeffrey was falling for Epstein Hocx”.
Kerffal also created bitter divisions within the administration, as Bongino and Bongino clashed in the White House meeting last month. Bongino was inadvertently silent on social media for several days thereafter.
Eric Tucker, Michael R. Sisak and Alana Durkin Richar, The Associated Press
