President Donald Trump speaks to reporters earlier than boarding Marine One on the South Garden of the White Home, in Washington, on his option to Turnberry, Scotland, July 25, 2025.
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Convicted Jeffrey Epstein confederate Ghislaine Maxwell “was requested possibly about 100 completely different individuals” throughout a gathering with a high Division of Justice official in Florida on Friday, her lawyer stated.
“I believe Ghislaine did a beautiful job,” her lawyer, 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 Legal professional 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 particular person,” Markus stated about his consumer, 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 completely different individuals. She answered questions on all people, and he or she did not maintain something again,” he stated.
“They requested about each single, each doable factor you may think about, every part,” 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 buddy Epstein, who died from a jailhouse suicide weeks after being arrested on baby intercourse trafficking costs 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 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.
Folks “do not speak about them. They speak about me,” Trump griped earlier than departing for a visit to Scotland.
“It’s best to deal with Clinton. It’s best to deal with the president of Harvard, the previous president of Harvard, you need to deal with a number of the hedge fund guys,” Trump stated.
“I will provide you with 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 not considered.”
“I am allowed to do it,” he added.
Jeffrey Epstein, in a photograph offered by the Palm Seashore 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 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 sort of deal, probably together with a advisable 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 means,” Markus stated. “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 Legal professional Common Pam Bondi and high 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 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 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 Court docket in Tallahassee, 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.”
“If you happen to seemed up scapegoat within the dictionary, her face can 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 be capable 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 way in which she’s been saved in jail.”
“We simply ask that folk have a look at what she has to say with an open thoughts, and that is what Deputy Legal professional Common Todd Blanche has promised us, and every part she says may be corroborated and he or she’s telling the reality,” Markus stated.
“She’s acquired no cause to lie at this level, and he or she’s going to maintain telling the reality.”
