Federal inmate Ghislaine Maxwell said she admires President Trump, according to transcripts released Friday, and never saw him receive a massage or act inappropriately. The comments were included in Justice Department transcripts of the two-day interview by Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche last month of Jeffrey Epstein's onetime girlfriend and accomplice. Blanche posted online that the only redactions in the transcripts were the names of sexual abuse victims, the Washington Post reports. "I never witnessed the president in any inappropriate setting in any way," Maxwell is quoted as saying. "The president was never inappropriate with anybody in the times that I was with him."
Despite her conviction, and Epstein's, and the testimony of women who said they were victims, Maxwell told Blanche she didn't know of any abuse by anybody else, either. The list of people she cleared includes Bill Clinton, Bill Gates, Harvey Weinstein, Piers Morgan, Alan Dershowitz, Bill Barr and his father, Donald Barr. If anyone had ever brought an accusation of "anything illegal or disgusting" to her, the release shows Maxwell said, she'd have "immediately done something." She called the late Virginia Giuffre's allegations that she was paid to have a relationship with Britain's Prince Andrew and that he had sex with her at Maxwell's home in London "rubbish," per the AP.
Prosecutors say Maxwell has a record of telling self-serving falsehoods, per the New York Times. She wants a reduction in her prison sentence or a pardon from Trump and repeatedly distanced herself from Epstein's conduct. She did once acknowledge to Blanche that Epstein preferred younger women but then added she never knew his preference to "encompass children." Maxwell also said she doesn't believe that Epstein killed himself or was killed to "keep him quiet," per NBC News. Days after telling Blanche that Trump had been "a gentleman in all respects," Maxwell was transferred to a more inmate-friendly, minimum-security prison camp in Texas.
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