DOJ releases Ghislaine Maxwell interview as wait continues for Epstein Files: Live updates – UK Times

Ghislaine Maxwell’s has denied the existence of Jeffrey Epstein’s highly controversial “client list” that has long-been the source of conspiracy theories.

During an interview with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, was asked about the list – which was alleged to have contained the information of associates of the deceased pedophile financier.

“There’s been a lot of conversations about whether Mr. Epstein maintained, like, a list of people, like a book of famous people that he knew.,” Blanche asked her.

“Like a, it’s called a black book or a client list or a list. Did you know of the existence of any such list?”

Maxwell replied: “There is no list.”

In part of Ghislaine Maxwell’s high profile interview with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, the British socialite was asked directly about Donald Trump’s relationship with the disgraced finacier.

“I don’t know how they met, and I don’t know how they became friends,” Maxwell said, per the transcripts.

“I certainly saw them together and I remember the few times I observed them together, but they were friendly. I mean, they seemed friendly.”

Blanche continued: “And did you ever hear Mr. Epstein or anybody say that President Trump had done anything inappropriate with masseuses or with anybody in your world?”

“Absolutely never, in any context,” Maxwell replied.

In part of Ghislaine Maxwell’s high profile interview with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, the British socialite praised Donald Trump for his “extraordinary achievement” on becoming president.

“So my father liked him very much, and he was loved – really liked his wife as well, because we were both Czechoslovakian,” the unredacted transcript read. “And as far as I’m concerned, President Trump was always very cordial and very kind to me.”

“And I just want to say that I find… I admire his extraordinary achievement in becoming the President now.

“And I like him, and I’ve always liked him. So that is the sum and substance of my entire relationship with him.”

When asked about the Jeffrey Epstein scandal Wednesday, Trump side-stepped and used the opportunity to boast about his achievements and take aim at the Democrats instead.

“We had the greatest six months, seven months in the history of the presidency. And the Democrats don’t know what to do, so they keep bringing up that stuff, but it affected them,” he said.

“Bill Clinton was on his plane and went to the island. I don’t want to bring that up.”

“This is a democratic hoax to try and get the the at the the significance of what we’ve done over the past seven months. Nobody’s ever seen anything like it. They say it’s number one in history.”

The Justice Department will publicly released a transcript of an interview conducted between Jeffrey Epstein’s former girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell and Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche.

The transcript of the high-profile interview may be released as soon as this afternoon, sources told CNN.

Donald Trump doubled down on his claims that the Epstein case was a Democratic hoax Friday, when asked about the DOJ file transfer to the House Oversights Committee.

“I don’t know anything about that, but I have said to Pam and everybody else, give them everything, because it’s a Democrat hoax. That’s just a hoax,” he said.

“The whole Epstein thing is a Democrat hoax.”

Donald Trump said he “couldn’t care less” that files about the Jeffrey Epstein case were being sent by the DOJ to Congress, telling reporters that he was “in support of keeping [the case] totally open.”

“You got a lot of people that it could be mentioned out of those files that don’t deserve to be people we knew everybody in Palm Beach,” he said.

“I don’t know anything about that, but I have said to Pam [Bondi] and everybody else, give them everything, because it’s a Democrat hoax.”

A federal judge who on Wednesday rejected the Trump administration’s request to unseal grand jury transcripts from the Jeffrey Epstein case, noted the voluminous records held by the DOJ.

Judge Richard Berman wrote that the scant information contained in 70 pages of Epstein grand jury transcripts “pales in comparison to the Epstein investigative information and materials in the hands of the Department of Justice,” which he said totals around 100,000 pages.

“The Government is the logical party to make comprehensive disclosure to the public of the Epstein Files,” Berman wrote.