Trump diverts Jeffrey Epstein’s questions; Maxwell meets doj

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US President Donald Trump spoke to South Morava reporters before embarking on the Maritime South Lawn of the White House on July 25, 2025 in Washington, Colombia County on the road to Turnbury, Scotland.

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Convicted Jeffrey Epstein complicit Ghislaine maxwell “Maybe about 100 different people was asked” during a meeting with a senior official of the Ministry of Justice in Florida on Friday, her lawyer said.

“I think Ghislaine has done a wonderful job,” her lawyer David Oscar Marcus told reporters outside the US District Court in Talahasi, where Maxwell met for the second day in a row with deputy tod Blanche.

“She literally answered every question. She didn’t say: Do you know what? Don’t ask me this. I won’t talk about this person,” Marcus told her client, who is serving a 20-year prison for crimes related to buying and raising girls for Epstein for sexual abuse.

“She was asked maybe about 100 different people. She answered questions about everyone and couldn’t keep anything,” he said.

“They asked about everyone, every possible thing you can imagine, everything.”

Marcus does not identify the people Maxwell was asked.

Ghislaine Maxwell, a longtime contributor to the accused sexual trafficking Jeffrey Epstein, spoke at a press conference on the oceans and sustainable development in the United Nations organization in New York, June 25, 2013 in this screen, taken from footage of the United Nations.

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Earlier Friday, President Donald Trump Declied questions about his ex -friend Epstein, who died of suicide in prison weeks after his arrest on charges of trafficking in children in July 2019.

“I have nothing to do with the person,” Trump told Epstein, with whom he has been socialized for years before falling with the already dead pedophile in the mid-2000s.

Instead, Trump said people should focus on others who, like him, have previously socialized with Epstein, among them a former president Bill Clinton and secretary of the former continuous Larry Sumarswho has also been president of Harvard UniversityS

People “don’t talk about them. Talking about me,” Trump caught up before he left for a trip to Scotland.

“You have to focus on Clinton. You have to focus on Harvard President, former Harvard President, you have to focus on some of the hedge fund boys,” Trump said.

“I will give you a list. These guys lived with Jeffrey Epstein, I’m sure the hell don’t.”

Asked if I was considering a pardon or a sentence about Maxwell, Trump said, “This is something I didn’t think of.”

“I’m allowed to do it,” he added.

This July 27, 2006, a file photo provided by the Palm Beach Sheriff’s office, shows Jeffrey Epstein.

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Maxwell Markus’s lawyer, when asked by reporters for a possible pardon of Trump in exchange for her cooperation with doj, replied: “No offers were made.”

Marcus also said, “I will not comment on what we hope” from these discussions with Blanche.

The lawyer was asked if Maxwell hoped to receive a deal, probably involving a recommended reduction in the sentence from prosecutors.

“Ghislaine answered every question asked about her in the last day and a half, she answered honestly these questions, as honest as possible,” Marcus said. “She never referred to a privilege. She never refused to answer a question.”

“They asked about everyone, every possible thing you can imagine, everything.”

Trump has encountered the increasing pressure to release information about Epstein after DOJ has canceled promises from Prosecutor Pam Bondi and senior FBI officials to reveal files that criminal investigators have gathered in their Epstein Sex Traffic probe earlier this month.

The NBC Archives shows Trump partying with Jeffrey Epstein in 1992.

Last week, Trump ordered Bondi to seek the release of transcripts to the large jury related to Epstein and Maxwell’s investigations, shortly after the Wall Street Journal reported that he had sent a Bawdy letter to Epstein for the 50th birthday of the money manager.

“I don’t even know what they are talking about. Now someone could write a letter and use my name, but it happened a lot,” Trump told the letter on Friday.

On Tuesday, Blanche said she would seek to meet Maxwell and ask her if there were information about other people who had potentially abused minor girls and young women related to Epstein. Blanche is a former Trump criminal defense lawyer.

Blanche met for hours with Maxwell and her lawyer on Thursday in the US District Court in Talahassi, the same city where she is serving her prison.

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Prior to their second meeting on Friday, Maxwell’s lawyer Marcus told reporters, “Ghislaine has been treated unfairly for more than five years.”

“If you look at the scapegoat in the dictionary, her face would be until the definition of the vocabulary for him,” he said. “So, you know, we are grateful for this opportunity at last to be able to say what really happened, and we will do that yesterday and today.”

Marcus said Maxwell was “in terrible, terrible conditions for five years. We would not keep animals the way she was kept in prison.”

“We just ask people to watch what there is to say with an open mind. This is what the Deputy General Prosecutor Todd Blanche has promised us. Anything she says can be confirmed and she tells the truth,” Marcus said.

“At that moment she has no reason to lie and will continue to tell the truth.”

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