Glenn Thrush, Chris Cameron, Alan Feuer, Maggie Haberman and Sharon LaFraniere
Ghislaine Maxwell, a longtime confidante of the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, told a top administration official she never saw President Trump engage in improper or illegal acts during his long friendship with Mr. Epstein, according to transcripts released late Friday.
The transcripts and audio, covering two days of interviews in late July between Ms. Maxwell and Todd Blanche, the former Trump defense lawyer tapped to the No. 2 post at the Justice Department, are likely to raise as many questions as they answer. Time and again she claimed not to have witnessed events or punted when asked to provide details of known incidents.
Ms. Maxwell has been seeking to overturn or reduce her 20-year sentence, giving her a powerful incentive to tell Mr. Trump’s team what it wanted to hear.
Mr. Epstein’s victims and their families vehemently objected to the interview, and her subsequent transfer to a cushier prison, accusing Mr. Trump of offering a sweetheart deal to a convicted sex offender who would say anything to protect herself, and him.
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