President Donald Trump speaks to reporters earlier than boarding Marine One on the South Garden of the White Home, in Washington, on his technique to Turnberry, Scotland, July 25, 2025.
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Convicted Jeffrey Epstein confederate Ghislaine Maxwell “was requested perhaps about 100 completely different folks” throughout a gathering with a prime Division of Justice official in Florida on Friday, her lawyer mentioned.
“I believe Ghislaine did a beautiful job,” her legal professional, David Oscar Markus, advised reporters outdoors U.S. District Court docket in Tallahassee, the place Maxwell met for the second day in a row with Deputy Lawyer Todd Blanche.
“She actually answered each query. She did not say, what? Do not ask me that. I am not going to speak about this individual,” Markus mentioned about his shopper, who’s serving a 20-year jail time period for crimes associated to procuring and grooming ladies for Epstein to sexually abuse.
“She was requested perhaps about 100 completely different folks. She answered questions on everyone, and she or he did not maintain something again,” he mentioned.
“They requested about each single, each doable factor you would think about, every thing,” he mentioned.
Markus didn’t determine the folks Maxwell was requested about.
Ghislaine Maxwell, longtime affiliate of accused intercourse trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, speaks at a information convention on oceans and sustainable growth on the United Nations in New York, June 25, 2013 on this screengrab taken from United Nations TV file footage.
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Earlier Friday, President Donald Trump deflected questions on his former good friend Epstein, who died from a jailhouse suicide weeks after being arrested on youngster intercourse trafficking prices in July 2019.
“I’ve nothing to do with the man,” Trump mentioned of Epstein, with whom he had socialized for years earlier than falling out with the now-dead pedophile within the mid-2000s.
Trump as an alternative mentioned folks ought to deal with others who, like him, had beforehand socialized with Epstein, amongst them former President Invoice Clinton and ex-Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, who additionally served as president of Harvard College.
Individuals “do not discuss them. They discuss me,” Trump griped earlier than departing for a visit to Scotland.
“You need to deal with Clinton. You need to deal with the president of Harvard, the previous president of Harvard, you need to deal with among the hedge fund guys,” Trump mentioned.
“I will offer you an inventory. These guys lived with Jeffrey Epstein, I certain as hell did not.”
Requested if he was contemplating a pardon or sentence commutation for Maxwell, Trump mentioned, “It is one thing I have never considered.”
“I am allowed to do it,” he added.
Jeffrey Epstein, in a photograph supplied by the Palm Seaside Sheriff’s Workplace, July 27, 2006.
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Maxwell’s lawyer Markus, when requested by reporters about doable clemency from Trump in trade for her cooperation with the DOJ, replied: “No gives have been made.”
Markus additionally mentioned, “I’m not going to touch upon what we’re hoping for” from these discussions with Blanche.
The lawyer had been requested if Maxwell hoped to get some form of deal, presumably together with a really helpful sentence discount, from prosecutors.
“Ghislaine answered each single query requested of her over the past day and a half, she answered these questions actually, in truth, to the perfect of her capacity,” Markus mentioned. “She by no means invoked a privilege. She by no means refused to reply a query.”
Trump has confronted rising strain to launch details about Epstein after the DOJ earlier this month reneged on guarantees by Lawyer Basic Pam Bondi and prime FBI officers to reveal information prison investigators assembled of their intercourse trafficking probe of Epstein.
Trump final week ordered Bondi to hunt the unsealing of grand jury transcripts associated to investigations of Epstein and Maxwell, shortly after The Wall Road Journal reported he had despatched a “bawdy” letter to Epstein in 2003 for the cash supervisor’s fiftieth birthday.
“I do not even know what they’re speaking about. Now, someone may have written a letter and used my identify, however that is occurred quite a bit,” Trump mentioned concerning the letter on Friday.
On Tuesday, Blanche mentioned he would search to fulfill Maxwell and ask her if she had details about different individuals who had probably abused underage ladies and younger ladies related to Epstein. Blanche is a former prison protection lawyer for Trump.
Blanche met for hours with Maxwell and her legal professional on Thursday in U.S. District Court docket in Tallahassee, the town the place she is serving her jail time period.
Earlier than their second assembly, on Friday, Maxwell’s lawyer Markus advised reporters, “Ghislaine has been handled unfairly for over 5 years now.”
“When you seemed up scapegoat within the dictionary, her face can be subsequent to the definition, subsequent to the dictionary definition of it,” he mentioned. “So, you already know, we’re grateful for this chance to lastly have the ability to say what actually occurred, and that is what we will do yesterday and at this time.”
Markus mentioned that Maxwell has “been in horrible, terrible situations for 5 years. We would not maintain animals the best way she’s been saved in jail.”
“We simply ask that folk take a look at what she has to say with an open thoughts, and that is what Deputy Lawyer Basic Todd Blanche has promised us, and every thing she says will be corroborated and she or he’s telling the reality,” Markus mentioned.
“She’s bought no motive to lie at this level, and she or he’s going to maintain telling the reality.”
