President Donald Trump speaks to reporters earlier boarding Marine One connected the South Lawn of the White House, successful Washington, connected his mode to Turnberry, Scotland, July 25, 2025.
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Convicted Jeffrey Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell "was asked possibly astir 100 antithetic people" during a gathering with a apical Department of Justice authoritative successful Florida connected Friday, her lawyer said.
"I deliberation Ghislaine did a fantastic job," her attorney, David Oscar Markus, told reporters extracurricular U.S. District Court successful Tallahassee, wherever Maxwell met for the 2nd time successful a enactment with Deputy Attorney Todd Blanche.
"She virtually answered each question. She didn't say, You cognize what? Don't inquire maine that. I'm not going to speech astir this person," Markus said astir his client, who is serving a 20-year situation word for crimes related to procuring and grooming girls for Epstein to sexually abuse.
"She was asked possibly astir 100 different people. She answered questions astir everybody, and she didn't clasp thing back," helium said.
"They asked astir each single, each imaginable happening you could imagine, everything," helium said.
Markus did not place the radical Maxwell was asked about.
Ghislaine Maxwell, longtime subordinate of accused enactment trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, speaks astatine a quality league connected oceans and sustainable improvement astatine the United Nations successful New York, June 25, 2013 successful this screengrab taken from United Nations TV record footage.
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Earlier Friday, President Donald Trump deflected questions astir his erstwhile person Epstein, who died from a jailhouse termination weeks aft being arrested connected kid enactment trafficking charges successful July 2019.
"I person thing to bash with the guy," Trump said of Epstein, with whom helium had socialized for years earlier falling retired with the now-dead pedophile successful the mid-2000s.
Trump alternatively said radical should absorption connected others who, similar him, had antecedently socialized with Epstein, among them erstwhile President Bill Clinton and ex-Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, who besides served arsenic president of Harvard University.
People "don't speech astir them. They speech astir me," Trump griped earlier departing for a travel to Scotland.
"You should absorption connected Clinton. You should absorption connected the president of Harvard, the erstwhile president of Harvard, you should absorption connected immoderate of the hedge money guys," Trump said.
"I'll springiness you a list. These guys lived with Jeffrey Epstein, I definite arsenic hellhole didn't."
Asked if helium was considering a pardon oregon condemnation commutation for Maxwell, Trump said, "It's thing I haven't thought about."
"I'm allowed to bash it," helium added.
Jeffrey Epstein, successful a photograph provided by the Palm Beach Sheriff's Office, July 27, 2006.
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Maxwell's lawyer Markus, erstwhile asked by reporters astir imaginable clemency from Trump successful speech for her practice with the DOJ, replied: "No offers person been made."
Markus besides said, "I americium not going to remark connected what we're hoping for" from those discussions with Blanche.
The lawyer had been asked if Maxwell hoped to get immoderate benignant of deal, perchance including a recommended condemnation reduction, from prosecutors.
"Ghislaine answered each azygous question asked of her implicit the past time and a half, she answered those questions honestly, truthfully, to the champion of her ability," Markus said. "She ne'er invoked a privilege. She ne'er refused to reply a question."
Trump has faced increasing unit to merchandise accusation astir Epstein aft the DOJ earlier this period reneged connected promises by Attorney General Pam Bondi and apical FBI officials to disclose files transgression investigators assembled successful their enactment trafficking probe of Epstein.
Trump past week ordered Bondi to question the unsealing of expansive assemblage transcripts related to investigations of Epstein and Maxwell, soon aft The Wall Street Journal reported helium had sent a "bawdy" missive to Epstein successful 2003 for the wealth manager's 50th birthday.
"I don't adjacent cognize what they're talking about. Now, idiosyncratic could person written a missive and utilized my name, but that's happened a lot," Trump said astir the missive connected Friday.
On Tuesday, Blanche said helium would question to conscionable Maxwell and inquire her if she had accusation astir different radical who had perchance abused underage girls and young women connected to Epstein. Blanche is simply a erstwhile transgression defence lawyer for Trump.
Blanche met for hours with Maxwell and her lawyer connected Thursday successful U.S. District Court successful Tallahassee, the metropolis wherever she is serving her situation term.
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Before their 2nd meeting, connected Friday, Maxwell's lawyer Markus told reporters, "Ghislaine has been treated unfairly for implicit 5 years now."
"If you looked up scapegoat successful the dictionary, her look would beryllium adjacent to the definition, adjacent to the dictionary explanation of it," helium said. "So, you know, we're grateful for this accidental to yet beryllium capable to accidental what truly happened, and that's what we're going to bash yesterday and today."
Markus said that Maxwell has "been successful terrible, atrocious conditions for 5 years. We wouldn't support animals the mode she's been kept successful prison."
"We conscionable inquire that folks look astatine what she has to accidental with an unfastened mind, and that's what Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche has promised us, and everything she says tin beryllium corroborated and she's telling the truth," Markus said.
"She's got nary crushed to prevarication astatine this point, and she's going to support telling the truth."
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