{"id":35363,"date":"2025-08-24T01:24:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T01:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=35363"},"modified":"2025-08-24T01:24:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T01:24:15","slug":"ghislaine-maxwell-recalls-jeffrey-epstein-donald-trumps-friendly-relationship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=35363","title":{"rendered":"Ghislaine Maxwell Recalls Jeffrey Epstein, Donald Trump&#8217;s &#8216;Friendly&#8217; Relationship"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"article__primary-video-container_1-0\" class=\"comp article__primary-video-container mntl-block\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"article-content_1-0\" class=\"comp article-content mntl-block\">\n<div id=\"mntl-sc-page_1-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-page mntl-block structured-content\" data-sc-sticky-offset=\"90\" data-sc-ad-label-height=\"24\" data-sc-ad-track-spacing=\"100\" data-sc-min-track-height=\"250\" data-sc-max-track-height=\"600\" data-sc-breakpoint=\"50em\" data-sc-load-immediate=\"4\" data-sc-content-positions=\"[1, 1250, 1550, 1950, 2350, 2750, 3150, 3550, 3950]\" data-bind-scroll-on-start=\"true\">\n<div id=\"mntl-sc-block_1-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block people-sc-block-callout mntl-sc-block-universal-callout theme-needtoknow\" data-tracking-id=\"mntl-sc-block-callout\" data-tracking-container=\"true\">\n<div class=\"mntl-sc-block-universal-callout__body\">\n<ul>\n<li>Ghislaine Maxwell shared insight into the relationship between Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein<\/li>\n<li>In her newly released interview with a top Department of Justice (DOJ) official, Maxwell said the president and the disgraced financier &#8220;seemed friendly&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Maxwell, one of Epstein&#8217;s closest confidantes, was convicted on child sex trafficking charges and sentenced to 20 years<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_2-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"><a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/where-is-ghislaine-maxwell-now-11780977\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\">Ghislaine Maxwell<\/a> has shared insight into <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"2\">Donald Trump<\/a>&#8216;s relationship with <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/what-are-the-epstein-files-11781622\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"3\">Jeffrey Epstein<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_4-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\">The convicted child sex trafficker and Epstein confidante, 63, spoke with Attorney General Todd Blanche last month, in <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/ghislaine-maxwell-doesnt-think-jeffrey-epstein-died-by-suicide-in-jail-11796417\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\">a conversation officially shared<\/a> by the Department of Justice (DOJ) on Friday, Aug. 22.<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_6-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\">The DOJ released a 300-plus-page transcript and corresponding audio files from the two-day interview, which took place in late July, in which Maxwell answered several questions surrounding Epstein and her apparent suspicions about his 2019 death, which was ruled a suicide.<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_8-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\">During the discussion, Blanche, 51, asked Maxwell about the relationship she observed between Epstein and Trump, 79, whose administration has faced scrutiny over its handling of the Epstein case.<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_10-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\">&#8220;I don&#8217;t know how they met, and I don&#8217;t know how they became friends,&#8221; Maxwell said. &#8220;I certainly saw them together, and I remember the few times I observed them together, but they were friendly. I mean, they seemed friendly.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_13-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\">As Maxwell explained to Blanche, she &#8220;only ever saw them in social settings,&#8221; and she didn&#8217;t &#8220;recall any private settings&#8221; in which she observed the president and Epstein interact.<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_15-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\">When asked about photographs of herself, Trump and Epstein over the years, Maxwell explained that they were taken in &#8220;social settings.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_17-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\">&#8220;I don&#8217;t know Epstein&#8217;s \u2014 if he had \u2014 whatever the nature of the president&#8217;s friendship, if you will, or however you want to define that with Epstein, I was \u2014 never witnessed,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I think they were friendly, like people are in social settings.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_19-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\">&#8220;I don&#8217;t think they were close friends, or I certainly never witnessed the president in any of \u2014 I don&#8217;t recall ever seeing him in his house, for instance,&#8221; Maxwell continued.<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_21-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\">&#8220;I actually never saw the president in any type of massage setting,&#8221; she added. &#8220;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.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_24-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\">Maxwell, who said she &#8220;never in any context&#8221; heard about Trump being inappropriate with masseuses, told the DOJ that she believed she met Trump in the 1990s through her father, British media proprietor Robert Maxwell.<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_26-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\">Maxwell&#8217;s father liked Trump &#8220;very much,&#8221; she said, adding that Trump was &#8220;very cordial and very kind&#8221; to her.<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_28-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\">As for when she last saw Trump, Maxwell said it was sometime in the mid-2000s. &#8220;I admire his extraordinary achievement in becoming the president now. And I like him, and I&#8217;ve always liked him,&#8221; she told the DOJ. &#8220;So that is the sum and substance of my entire relationship with him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_30-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\">Maxwell was also asked about <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/tag\/bill-clinton\/\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\">Bill Clinton<\/a>, whom she said was her &#8220;friend&#8221; and not Epstein&#8217;s. She added that she didn&#8217;t &#8220;believe&#8221; the former ever received a massage while with Epstein.<\/p>\n<div id=\"mntl-sc-block_32-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block people-sc-block-spotlight--mid-circ mntl-sc-block-spotlight--mid-circ mntl-block\">\n<div id=\"midcirc__card-list_1-0\" class=\"comp midcirc__card-list mntl-block\">\n<div id=\"midcirc-card__title_1-0\" class=\"comp midcirc-card__title mntl-text-block\">Trump Claims Jeffrey Epstein \u2018Stole\u2019 Young Female Employees \u2014 Including Virginia Giuffre \u2014 from His Mar-a-Lago Spa<\/div>\n<div id=\"midcirc-card__title_2-0\" class=\"comp midcirc-card__title mntl-text-block\">Trump Says It Would be &#8216;Inappropriate&#8217; to Comment on Whether He&#8217;s Considering Ghislaine Maxwell Pardon<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_34-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\">The DOJ&#8217;s release of Maxwell&#8217;s interview transcript \u2014 and her openly angling for a pardon \u2014 comes six years after Epstein was arrested on sex trafficking charges in 2019, before he was found dead in his jail cell a month later, in what was deemed a suicide by hanging.<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_36-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\">Maxwell was later convicted on child sex trafficking charges in 2021 for her role in facilitating Epstein&#8217;s abuse of young girls.<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_38-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\">She was recently moved into the custody of a minimum-security federal prison camp in Texas \u2014 the same one housing disgraced Theranos founder\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/elizabeth-holmes-breaks-her-silence-in-first-interview-from-prison-it-s-been-hell-and-torture-exclusive-8789737\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\">Elizabeth Holmes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"mntl-sc-block_40-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block people-sc-block-featuredlink--people-app-promo mntl-block\">\n<div id=\"people-app-promo__left_1-0\" class=\"comp people-app-promo__left mntl-block\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"people-app-promo__text_1-0\" class=\"comp people-app-promo__text mntl-text-block\"><b>Our new app is here!<\/b> Free, fun and full of exclusives. Scan to download now!<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_42-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\">Attorney General\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/jeffrey-epstein-files-could-be-released-thursday-attorney-general-says-11687505\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\">Pam Bondi<\/a>\u00a0and FBI Director\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/fbi-director-kash-patel-wants-ufc-partnership-training-agents-11688678\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"2\">Kash Patel<\/a> promised to release more information on the Epstein case after joining the president&#8217;s administration earlier this year. The DOJ and FBI later released a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/opa\/media\/1407001\/dl?inline\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"externalLink\" data-ordinal=\"3\">joint memo<\/a> in July, stating the investigation into Epstein&#8217;s alleged crimes and subsequent death in prison was complete and that his long-rumored &#8220;client list&#8221; did not exist \u2014 sparking renewed public interest in the circumstances surrounding the case.<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_44-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\">When <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/tag\/elon-musk\/\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\">Elon Musk<\/a>\u00a0departed the Trump White House in May, he wrote during a rant on X that Trump was &#8220;in the Epstein files,&#8221; before he later walked <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/elon-musk-apology-to-trump-wont-fix-relationship-exclusive-sources-11753738\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"2\">back the post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_46-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\">Trump, whose past <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/donald-trump-named-in-jeffrey-epstein-flight-logs-released-by-his-own-attorney-general-11687947\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\">interactions with Epstein have been documented<\/a>, has called the files a &#8220;hoax&#8221; perpetrated by\u00a0his political enemies.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghislaine Maxwell shared insight into the relationship between Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein In her newly released interview with a top Department of Justice (DOJ) official, Maxwell said the president &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35364,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35363"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35365,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35363\/revisions\/35365"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/35364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}