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Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislane Maxwell told the Department of Justice earlier in 2025 that she never saw President Donald Trump act inappropriately, according to DOJ documents released Friday of her interview.
“I think they were friendly like people are in social settings. I don’t — I don’t think they were close friends or I certainly never witnessed the President in any of — I don’t recall ever seeing him in his house, for instance.” she told the DOJ. “I actually never saw the President in any type of massage setting. I never witnessed the president in any inappropriate setting in any way. The president was never inappropriate with anybody. In the times that I was with him, he was a gentleman in all respects.”
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche interviewed Epstein associate Maxwell at the Federal Correctional Institution in Tallahassee, Florida, in July, where she has been serving a 20-year prison sentence for sex trafficking.
The interview was held across a two-day period, with the administration weighing in August whether to release the audio file and transcript of the interview, senior administration officials previously told Fox Digital.
Epstein was a notorious predator who pleaded guilty to procuring underage girls for prostitution in 2008, before he was arrested in 2019 on new federal charges of sex trafficking minors and conspiracy to engage in sex trafficking of minors. The predatory billionaire, who had rubbed elbows with the world’s elites stretching from Bill Gates to being photographed with Trump long before his presidency, was found dead in his New York City jail cell in August 2019 by apparent suicide.
The DOJ and FBI said in a joint memo in July that the two agencies had no further information to share with the public about Epstein’s case and death, determining that he died by suicide, and that there was no list of clients whom Epstein may have procured for exploitation by third parties.
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The memo set off condemnation from some MAGA supporters, who said the reports would not make the Epstein scandal disappear and continued calling for documents to be released. Such supporters claim that Epstein did not hang himself, and that the death was allegedly part of a bigger cover-up protecting elites allegedly involved in his sexual abuse of minors.
Trump repeatedly has slammed the Epstein case as a hoax promoted by the Democrats, including chastising reporters who asked him about the matter when the FBI and DOJ first reported evidence showed Epstein committed suicide.
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“For years, its Epstein, over and over again,” Trump said in a July Truth Social post. “Why are we giving publicity to Files written by Obama, Crooked Hillary, Comey, Brennan, and the Losers and Criminals of the Biden administration.”
“They created the Epstein Files, just like they created the FAKE Hillary Clinton/Christopher Steele Dossier that they used on me, and now my so-called ‘friends’ are playing right into their hands,” Trump wrote. “Why didn’t these Radical Left Lunatics release the Epstein Files? If there was ANYTHING in there that could have hurt the MAGA Movement, why didn’t they use it?”
Amid mounting calls from voters that the government release more details on Epstein, Trump instructed the Justice Department in July to release “all credible” evidence in the files.
“We’d like to release everything, but we don’t want people to get hurt that shouldn’t be hurt, and I would assume that was why he was there,” he told Newsmax in July.
Fox News Digital’s Brooke Singman, Breanne Deppisch and Ashley Oliver contributed to this report.
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