One of the top officials, Ghislaine Maxwell, the former partner of child sex abuser Jeffrey Epstein, and one of the US Department of Justice’s transcripts has been released.
Their meeting took place in July as Donald Trump’s administration struggled to reduce scrutiny over his alleged ties to Epstein.
Maxwell praised Trump in the transcripts released on Friday, insisting that she had never witnessed him act inappropriately.
Maxwell, who is currently serving a 20-year sentence for sex trafficking convictions, said, “I actually never saw the president in any kind of massage setting.”
“Never in any way did I see the president in an inappropriate setting.” Never did the president have inappropriate relations with anyone. He was a gentleman in every way when I was with him.
Second-in-chief of the Justice Department, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, previously claimed to have met with Maxwell to check if she “has information about anyone who has crimes against victims.”
However, the release of the transcripts is likely to rekindle concerns about how the Justice Department handled the Epstein case, which has spawned conspiracy theories and speculation among Trump’s supporters.
Blanche stated on Friday that “every word is included” in the released transcripts, excluding the names of the victims.
Nothing has been removed. He continued, “There is no hiding.”
Maxwell denied having any knowledge of a rumored “client list,” which is a subject of conspiracies against Americans for the right.
She also praised Trump for his actions and his “extraordinary accomplishment” in taking office now.
Trump “always treated me with kindness and cordiality,” Maxwell continued, “I like him, and I’ve always liked him.”
Maxwell was transferred from a low-security federal prison in Florida to a Texas minimum-security camp after meeting with Blanche, which took place over the course of two days in a courthouse.
The change’s cause has not been disclosed by the government.
However, Virginia Giuffre, one of Epstein’s most well-known accusers,’s family, demanded that the Trump administration not extend Maxwell’s leniency following the meeting.
Anything less would go down in history as one of the worst travesties of justice, according to Giuffre’s relatives in a statement. In April, Giuffre committed suicide.
In his own death, Epstein was discovered dead in his jail cell in 2019. His execution was declared a suicide by hanging.
Despite the fact that there are numerous conspiracy theories in the US suggesting that Epstein’s abuse may have been a cover-up, it has been suggested that his death may have occurred.
According to experts, the saga has sown a pretext for the perception that the wealthy and powerful are held accountable, and Trump’s “Make America Great Again” (MAGA) supporters have long supported efforts to “drain the swamp,” a phrase used to call for the elimination of corrupt forces in government and leading industries.
Some of these suspicions have stooped into conspiracy theories about gangs of scheming paedophiles working for the ruling class.
For instance, a suspect shot a gun into the Comet Ping Pong Pizzeria in Washington, DC in 2016 out of the conceit that it housed a ring.
There was widespread rumor in the Epstein case that the disgraced financier used a “client list” to intimidate powerful individuals.
Earlier than that, including Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director Kash Patel, several members of the Trump administration had actively promoted that conspiracy theory.
He later retreated after serving in Trump’s second term, when the FBI and DOJ jointly declared there was no such list in a joint memo. Additionally, Epstein’s suicide was confirmed in that memo, and no additional suspects had been made of his crimes.
However, the memo did not stifle public interest in the scandal, and many people made it clear that Pam Bondi, the attorney general, had a client list for review when she told Fox News in February. Bondi has since claimed that she made up the Epstein Files in general and that she misspoke.
