The Ministry of Justice releases Ghislaine Maxwell maintenance transcriptions on Jeffrey Epstein

Friday, the United States Ministry of Justice published reports of interview notes with the former imprisoned girlfriend of Jeffrey Epstein while the Trump administration rushes to present itself as transparent.

This comes in the midst of a fierce reaction on a previous refusal to disclose a record mine in the sex traffic case.

The disclosure represents the latest Trump administration efforts to repair self-inflicted political injuries after omitting expectations that his own civil servants had created through conspiracy theories and daring statements that have never taken place.

By making a public two days of interview, those responsible seem to hope to at least temporarily keep the support sustained from the base of the American president Donald Trump even when they continue to sit on other evidence that they had suggested were prepared for the public release.

Ghislaine Maxwell remembers knowing Trump and perhaps meeting him for the first time in 1990, when his newspaper magnate, Robert Maxwell, owned the New York Daily News.

“I may have met Donald Trump at that time, because my father was friendly with him and loved him very much,” said Maxwell, according to the transcription.

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

Maxwell sentenced in 2021

Maxwell, a unique worldly who was condemned in 2021 for helping teenage girls attracts sexually sexually abused girls by Epstein, was interviewed during two days last month by the Blanche Todd sub-procureur in a Florida courthouse.

After her interview, Maxwell was transferred from the low -security federal prison in Florida where she had served a 20 -year sentence to a minimum security prison camp in Texas. Neither his lawyer nor the federal prisons office explained the reason for this decision.

The Epstein affair has long drawn the attention of the public, partly due to the social ties of the rich financier with important personalities, notably Prince Andrew, the former American president Bill Clinton and Trump, who said that his relationship with Epstein ended years earlier.

Epstein was arrested in 2019 for charges of sex trafficking, accused of having sexually abused dozens of teenagers. He was found dead a month later in a New York prison cell in what investigators described as a suicide.

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President Donald Trump faces questions about the meetings that his officials organized with the ex-girlfriend of Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, who is serving a 20-year sentence for sex traffic.

The FBI announcement produced indignation

The saga consumed the Trump administration in the last month after a brutal announcement of two pages of the FBI and the Ministry of Justice that Epstein had killed himself despite the theories of the contrary conspiracy.

These theories were that “list of customers” that the American prosecutor General Pam Bondi had intimated was on his office did not really exist and that no additional document of the highly publicized investigation should be published.

The announcement has produced the indignation of conspiracy theorists, online detectives and Trump supporters who hoped to see government coverage.

This wait had been partly motivated by comments from officials such as FBI director Kash Patel and deputy director Dan Bongino, who – before taking their current posts – had appeared on podcasts and had repeatedly promoted the idea that damaging details on eminent people were hidden.

Patel, for example, said that in at least one interview with the podcast before becoming director that Epstein’s “black book” was under the “direct control of the director of the FBI”.

The administration had an early trip in February when far -right influencers were invited to the White House in February and provided Bondi with marked binders “Epstein files: phase 1” and “declassified” which contained documents which had already been in the public domain.

Bitter divisions in administration

After the first liberation fell flat, Bondi said that officials moved over a “truck” of previously retained evidence that she had said that she had been given by the FBI and raised the expectations of the coming versions.

But after an examination of evidence of several weeks in possession of the government, the Ministry of Justice said last month that no “additional disclosure would be appropriate or justified”.

The ministry noted that a large part of the equipment had been placed in Seal by a court to protect the victims and that “only a fraction” of the latter “would have been disseminated publicly if Epstein had gone to judgment”.

Faced with the fury of the base, Trump sought to quickly turn the page, closing the Bondi interrogations about Epstein during a meeting of the White House cabinet and making fun of the “weak” supporters who, according to him, fell for the “hoax Jeffrey Epstein”.

The Kerfuffle also created bitter divisions within the administration, while Bondi and Bongino clashed with a meeting of the White House last month. Bongino was unusually silent on social networks for several days after that.