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BumRushDaShow

(160,228 posts)
Fri Aug 22, 2025, 03:06 PM Aug 22

Justice Department issues transcripts of interviews with Epstein ex-girlfriend Maxwell

Last edited Fri Aug 22, 2025, 04:13 PM - Edit history (1)

Source: AP

Updated 3:02 PM EDT, August 22, 2025


WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department on Friday released transcripts of interviews its No. 2 official did with Jeffrey Epstein’s imprisoned former girlfriend 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. 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.

Maxwell recalled knowing about Trump and possibly meeting him for the first time in 1990, when her newspaper magnate father, Robert Maxwell, was the owner of the New York Daily News.

“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. Maxwell said her father was fond of Trump’s then-wife, Ivana, “because she was also from Czechoslovakia, where my dad was from.”


Read more: https://apnews.com/article/epstein-maxwell-justice-department-interview-transcripts-1d38a010e72b5b58cca944cb3bbb0e6a



Link to released FILES (transcripts & audio) - https://www.justice.gov/maxwell-interview

These aren't "THE EPSTEIN FILES". This sounds like the interview that Comer had done with Maxwell.
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Aviation Pro

(14,761 posts)
1. I don't care what a fucking sex trafficker and liar
Fri Aug 22, 2025, 03:08 PM
Aug 22

Has to say.

Release the fucking files, Pvt. Fucking Pedophile.

BumRushDaShow

(160,228 posts)
7. I know, but it was arranged by his Committee - House Oversight.
Fri Aug 22, 2025, 03:30 PM
Aug 22

The J6 "interviews/depositions" weren't personally done by the those members of the Committee but by lawyers who they brought in.

AZJonnie

(1,537 posts)
4. Of course since nobody was there but Trump's guy and Maxwell we have 0 reason to believe
Fri Aug 22, 2025, 03:15 PM
Aug 22

that what they released is really the entire interview, and even if it was, she's not a dumb lady. She knows what she's being interviewed for and has absolutely ZERO reason to implicate Trump in ANYTHING. Not to mention she's lied about her involvement (and hell, Epstein's for that matter) all along, unless a whole bunch of the victims are lying in an organized fashion, which seems like the much less likely option of the two.

I'm not saying, however, that there's any extant evidence that Trump 'participated', that idea is still what I'd call circumstantial based on what we know about his nature. But I think there's a damn good chance he knew what Epstein was up to and didn't say shit to any authorities about it, similar to what we know about Gym Jordan.

Botany

(75,307 posts)
5. "I may have met Donald Trump at that time, because my father was friendly with him ...". Maxwell
Fri Aug 22, 2025, 03:22 PM
Aug 22

These are not the Epstein files but from when Trump’s attorney now the # 2 person @ the DoJ met
with Jizz Lane Maxwell who is serving a 20 year prison term for child sex trafficking, child rape
and perjury.

From my perspective Donny was not only an active member of Epstein’s international child sex
trafficking ring using his plane to move the underage girls around for sexual exploitation,
conducted beauty pageants to recruit new girls, and was a rapist too.

What is truly sick is the % of the republicans and our media that are fine with covering up Trump’s
crimes for political reasons.

Bayard

(26,988 posts)
6. If Epstein had not been killed,
Fri Aug 22, 2025, 03:24 PM
Aug 22

He would have had a ton of dirt to dish out on his old buddy, trump. I suspect we'll never learn the truth now.

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