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 perhaps about 100 completely different individuals” throughout a gathering with a high Division of Justice official in Florida on Friday, her lawyer mentioned.
“I feel Ghislaine did an exquisite job,” her lawyer, David Oscar Markus, instructed reporters outdoors U.S. District Courtroom 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, You already know 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 women for Epstein to sexually abuse.
“She was requested perhaps about 100Â completely different individuals. She answered questions on all people, and she or he did not maintain something again,” he mentioned.
“They requested about each single, each potential factor you might think about, all the pieces,” he mentioned.
Markus didn’t determine 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 improvement 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 expenses 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 individuals ought to give attention to 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.
“It is best to give attention to Clinton. It is best to give attention to the president of Harvard, the previous president of Harvard, you need to give attention to 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 offered by the Palm Seaside Sheriff’s Workplace, July 27, 2006.
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Maxwell’s lawyer Markus, when requested by reporters about potential clemency from Trump in change for her cooperation with the DOJ, replied: “No affords 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 type of deal, probably together with a advisable sentence discount, from prosecutors.
“Ghislaine answered each single query requested of her over the past day and a half, she answered these questions actually, honestly, to the most effective of her potential,” Markus mentioned. “She by no means invoked a privilege. She by no means refused to reply a query.”     Â
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 high FBI officers to reveal recordsdata legal 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 lots,” Trump mentioned concerning the letter on Friday.
On Tuesday, Blanche mentioned he would search to satisfy Maxwell and ask her if she had details about different individuals who had doubtlessly abused underage women and younger ladies related to Epstein. Blanche is a former legal protection lawyer for Trump.
Blanche met for hours with Maxwell and her lawyer on Thursday in U.S. District Courtroom in Tallahassee, the town the place she is serving her jail time period.
Earlier than their second assembly, on Friday, Maxwell’s lawyer Markus instructed reporters, “Ghislaine has been handled unfairly for over 5 years now.”
“Should you appeared up scapegoat within the dictionary, her face can be subsequent to the definition, subsequent to the dictionary definition of it,” he mentioned. “So, you realize, 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 as we speak.”
Markus mentioned that Maxwell has “been in horrible, terrible situations for 5 years. We would not preserve 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 Lawyer Basic Todd Blanche has promised us, and all the pieces she says may be corroborated and she or he’s telling the reality,” Markus mentioned.
“She’s acquired no cause to lie at this level, and she or he’s going to maintain telling the reality.”
