The Trump administration released hundreds of pages of transcripts from interviews that Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche conducted with Ghislaine Maxwell last month. Maxwell repeatedly praised Mr. Trump and denied under questioning that she had observed him engaged in any form of sexual behavior. The disclosure followed backlash over an earlier refusal to release records from the sex‑trafficking case. Officials aimed to present transparency, to repair political damage, and to provide Congress with previously withheld evidence. Maxwell said she first met Mr. Trump around 1990 through her father Robert Maxwell and had not seen him since the mid‑2000s except socially.
The Trump administration issued hundreds of pages of transcripts from interviews that Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche conducted with Ghislaine Maxwell last month as the administration was scrambling to present itself as transparent amid a fierce backlash over an earlier refusal to disclose a trove of records from the sex-trafficking case.
The transcript disclosure represents the latest Trump administration effort to repair self-inflicted political wounds after failing to deliver on expectations that its own officials had created through conspiracy theories and bold pronouncements that never came to pass. By making public two days worth of interviews, officials appear to be hoping to at least temporarily keep at bay sustained anger from Mr Trump's base even as they send Congress evidence that they had previously kept from view.
"I actually never saw the president in any type of massage setting," Maxwell said, according to the transcript. "I never witnessed the president in any inappropriate setting in any way. The president was never inappropriate with anybody. In the times that I was with him, he was a gentleman in all respects."
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