President Donald Trump speaks to reporters earlier than boarding Marine One on the South Garden of the White Home, in Washington, on his strategy to Turnberry, Scotland, July 25, 2025.
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Convicted Jeffrey Epstein confederate Ghislaine Maxwell “was requested possibly about 100 totally different individuals” throughout a gathering with a prime Division of Justice official in Florida on Friday, her lawyer stated.
“I believe Ghislaine did an exquisite job,” her lawyer, David Oscar Markus, informed reporters outdoors U.S. District Courtroom in Tallahassee, the place Maxwell met for the second day in a row with Deputy Legal professional Todd Blanche.
“She actually answered each query. She did not say, You recognize what? Do not ask me that. I am not going to speak about this individual,” Markus stated about his shopper, who’s serving a 20-year jail time period for crimes associated to procuring and grooming women for Epstein to sexually abuse.
“She was requested possibly about 100 totally different individuals. She answered questions on everyone, and he or she did not maintain something again,” he stated.
“They requested about each single, each potential factor you may think about, all the pieces,” he stated.
Markus didn’t establish the individuals 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 pal 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 stated of Epstein, with whom he had socialized for years earlier than falling out with the now-dead pedophile within the mid-2000s.
Trump as a substitute stated individuals ought to concentrate on 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.
Folks “do not discuss them. They discuss me,” Trump griped earlier than departing for a visit to Scotland.
“It’s best to concentrate on Clinton. It’s best to concentrate on the president of Harvard, the previous president of Harvard, it is best to concentrate on a number of the hedge fund guys,” Trump stated.
“I am going to offer you a listing. 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 stated, “It is one thing I have never thought of.”
“I am allowed to do it,” he added.
Jeffrey Epstein, in a photograph supplied by the Palm Seashore Sheriff’s Workplace, July 27, 2006.
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Maxwell’s lawyer Markus, when requested by reporters about potential clemency from Trump in trade for her cooperation with the DOJ, replied: “No presents have been made.”
Markus additionally stated, “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 type of deal, presumably together with a really useful sentence discount, from prosecutors.
“Ghislaine answered each single query requested of her during the last day and a half, she answered these questions actually, honestly, to the most effective of her skill,” Markus stated. “She by no means invoked a privilege. She by no means refused to reply a query.”
Trump has confronted rising stress to launch details about Epstein after the DOJ earlier this month reneged on guarantees by Legal professional Normal Pam Bondi and prime FBI officers to reveal recordsdata felony 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 Avenue 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, any individual might have written a letter and used my identify, however that is occurred loads,” Trump stated concerning the letter on Friday.
On Tuesday, Blanche stated he would search to fulfill Maxwell and ask her if she had details about different individuals who had probably abused underage women and younger ladies linked to Epstein. Blanche is a former felony protection lawyer for Trump.
Blanche met for hours with Maxwell and her lawyer on Thursday in U.S. District Courtroom in Tallahassee, town the place she is serving her jail time period.
Earlier than their second assembly, on Friday, Maxwell’s lawyer Markus informed reporters, “Ghislaine has been handled unfairly for over 5 years now.”
“When you regarded up scapegoat within the dictionary, her face could be subsequent to the definition, subsequent to the dictionary definition of it,” he stated. “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 stated that Maxwell has “been in horrible, terrible situations for 5 years. We would not hold animals the best way she’s been stored 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 Legal professional Normal Todd Blanche has promised us, and all the pieces she says may be corroborated and he or she’s telling the reality,” Markus stated.
“She’s bought no purpose to lie at this level, and he or she’s going to maintain telling the reality.”
