The Trump administration released two days of interviews amid backlash over an earlier refusal to disclose records from a sex-trafficking case. The disclosure aims to present an appearance of transparency while officials continue to withhold other evidence they had suggested would be released. The move represents an attempt to repair political damage after failing to meet expectations created by officials' conspiracy theories and bold pronouncements. Officials appear to hope the interviews will temporarily quell anger within President Donald Trump's base. Ghislaine Maxwell recalled possibly meeting Donald Trump in 1990 because her father, Robert Maxwell, owned the New York Daily News and was friendly with him. Maxwell said her father liked Ivana Trump because both were from Czechoslovakia.
It comes as the Trump administration scrambles 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 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.
"I may have met Donald Trump at that time, because my father was friendly with him and liked him very much," Maxwell said, according to the transcript.
By making public two days worth of interviews, officials appear to be hoping to at least temporarily keep at bay sustained anger from President Donald Trump's base even as they continue to sit on other evidence they had suggested was being prepared for public release.
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