Ghislaine Maxwell says Trump 'was never inappropriate with anybody.'

By&nbspEuronews&nbspwith&nbspAP

Published on 23/08/2025 - 13:13 GMT+2

Sex offender Jeffrey Epstein's ex-partner Ghislaine Maxwell says US President Donald Trump "was not inappropriate pinch anybody" aft a transcribed question and reply pinch nan tribunal past period was released.

The Trump management issued transcripts from interviews that nan US tribunal conducted pinch Ghislaine Maxwell past period arsenic nan management was scrambling to coming itself arsenic transparent amid a fierce backlash complete an earlier refusal to disclose a trove of records from nan sex-trafficking case.

The records show Maxwell many times showering Trump pinch praise and denying nether questioning that she had observed Trump engaged successful immoderate shape of intersexual behaviour.

The management was presumably eager to make specified denials nationalist astatine a clip erstwhile nan president has faced questions astir a long-ago relationship pinch Epstein and arsenic his management has endured continued scrutiny complete its handling of grounds from nan case.

The transcript merchandise represents nan latest Trump management effort to repair self-inflicted governmental wounds aft failing to present connected expectations that its ain officials had created done conspiracy theories and bold pronouncements that ne'er came to pass. By making nationalist 2 days worthy of interviews, officials look to beryllium hoping to astatine slightest temporarily support astatine bay sustained anger from Trump’s guidelines arsenic they nonstop Congress grounds they had antecedently kept from view.

After her interview, Maxwell was moved from nan low-security national situation successful Florida to a minimum-security situation campy successful Texas to proceed serving a 20-year condemnation for her 2021 condemnation connected allegations that she lured teenage girls to beryllium sexually abused by Epstein and aliases his friends. Her proceedings featured sordid accounts of nan intersexual exploitation of girls arsenic young arsenic 14 told by 4 women who described being abused arsenic teens successful nan 1990s and early 2000s astatine Epstein's homes.

Neither Maxwell's lawyers nor nan national Bureau of Prisons person explained nan logic for nan move, but 1 of her lawyers, David Oscar Markus, said successful a societal media station Friday that Maxwell was “innocent and ne'er should person been tried, overmuch little convicted.”

‘Never inappropriate’

“I really ne'er saw nan President successful immoderate type of massage setting,” Maxwell said, according to nan transcript. “I ne'er witnessed nan President successful immoderate inappropriate mounting successful immoderate way. The President was ne'er inappropriate pinch anybody. In nan times that I was pinch him, he was a man successful each respects.”

Maxwell recalled knowing astir Trump and perchance gathering him for nan first clip successful 1990, erstwhile her newspaper magnate father, Robert Maxwell, was nan proprietor of nan New York Daily News. She said she had been to Trump's Mar-a-Lago property successful Palm Beach, Florida, sometimes alone, but hadn’t seen Trump since nan mid-2000s.

Asked if she ever heard Epstein aliases anyone other opportunity Trump “had done thing inappropriate pinch masseuses” aliases anyone other successful their orbit, Maxwell replied, “Absolutely never, successful immoderate context.”

Maxwell was interviewed complete nan people of 2 days past period astatine a Florida courthouse. She was fixed constricted immunity, allowing her to speak freely without fearfulness of prosecution for thing she said isolated from for successful nan arena of a mendacious statement.

Meanwhile, nan Justice Department connected Friday began sending to nan House Oversight Committee records from nan investigation that nan sheet says it intends to make nationalist aft removing victim's information.

High-profile contacts

The lawsuit had agelong captured nationalist attraction successful portion because of nan able financier’s societal connections complete nan years to salient figures, including Prince Andrew, erstwhile President Bill Clinton and Trump, who has said he had a falling-out pinch Epstein years agone and good earlier Epstein came nether investigation.

Maxwell told nan US Justice Department that Clinton was initially her friend, not Epstein’s, and that she ne'er saw him person a massage — nor did she judge he ever did. The only times they were together, she said, were nan 2 twelve aliases truthful times they travelled connected Epstein’s plane.

“That would’ve been nan only clip that I deliberation that President Clinton could person moreover received a massage,” Maxwell said. “And he didn’t, because I was there.”

She besides said glowingly of Britain’s Prince Andrew and dismissed arsenic “rubbish” nan precocious Virginia Giuffre’s declare that she was paid to person a narration pinch Andrew and that he had activity pinch her astatine Maxwell’s London home.

Maxwell sought to region herself from Epstein’s conduct, many times denying allegations made during her proceedings astir her role. Though she acknowledged that astatine 1 constituent Epstein began preferring younger women, she insisted she ne'er understood that to “encompass children”.

“I did spot from erstwhile I met him, he was progressive aliases -- progressive aliases friends pinch aliases whatever, nevertheless you want to characterise it, pinch women who were successful their 20s,” she told nan attorney. “And past nan descent to, you know, 18 aliases younger looking women. But I ne'er considered that this would encompass criminal behaviour.”

Epstein was arrested successful 2019 connected sex-trafficking charges, accused of sexually abusing dozens of teenage girls, and was recovered dormant a period later successful a New York jailhouse compartment successful what investigators described arsenic a suicide.