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President Donald Trump might have thought he had some distance from the Jeffrey Epstein headlines that were dragging down his poll numbers and made his base turn on him. But, over the last few weeks, the president has seen positive economic news, taken over the streets of Washington D.C. from local police and watched as his FBI raided the home of former adviser John Bolton.

C-SPAN is about to broadcast more than nine hours of Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell’s interview with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche…

When asked about trips she took with high-profile men, Ghislaine Maxwell said in her testimony to the Justice Department that it was difficult to remember the details, as they had become a “blur.”

“And after a while, you know, in the incredible job that you have, all of you, that when you’re so high pressured and you’re spending so much time with extraordinary people like you do with President Trump, it — it can blur,” she told Deputy AG Todd Blanche. “It just does.”

Blanche pressed Maxwell on whether she knew certain high-profile names, such as Elon Musk and former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo. Maxwell said she met Musk around 2010 or 2011 at an event for the co-founder of Google, which Epstein did not attend, and then saw Musk again later at the Oscars.

Maxwell told Blanche she was friends with Cuomo’s ex-wife, Kerry, but had only met him a few times, and she didn’t think Cuomo knew Epstein. Maxwell said she had no recollection of either man flying on Epstein’s plane or ever visiting his homes.

Maxwell’s interview wasn’t only helpful to Trump, but also another one-time White House occupant with Epstein ties: former President Bill Clinton.

Maxwell told Blanche that Clinton was initially her friend, not Epstein’s, and that she never saw him receive a massage — nor did she believe he ever did.

The only times they were together, she said, were the two dozen or so times they traveled on Epstein’s plane.

“That would’ve been the only time that I think that President Clinton could have even received a massage,” Maxwell said. “And he didn’t, because I was there.”

Asked if Epstein “knew or had any sort of visit, dealings, or associated, with Hillary Clinton,” Maxwell responded, “I would say no.”

She also said she’d never seen the two of them together.

Asked if Epstein ever did any business with the Clintons, Maxwell said he may have given money to their foundation.

“I think he did do that. And that, I believe, the money that he may have given could have been independent of me,” she said.

Conspiracy theorists on the right have long accused the Clintons of having close, nefarious ties with Epstein.

In her testimony to the Justice Department last month, Ghislaine Maxwell spoke favorably of Britain’s Prince Andrew and dismissed as “rubbish” the late Virginia Giuffre’s claim that she was paid to have a relationship with Andrew and that he had sex with her at Maxwell’s London home.

She also denied introducing Epstein to Prince Andrew, using a British idiom to describe how she felt they wouldn’t have anything in common.

“I couldn’t imagine them being friends. Two chalk and cheeses would never — I mean, for real, there’s nothing there to connect them,” she told Blanche.

Maxwell questioned the details of Giuffre’s claim, telling Blanche that she wasn’t even in London when the purported sex happened. Rather, she said, she was in the country celebrating her mother’s 80th birthday.

Maxwell said her home is so tiny — about 900 square feet (83.6 square meters) with tight quarters — that it would’ve been physically impossible to have sex in the bathroom, as Giuffre claimed.

Giuffre became an advocate for sex trafficking survivors after emerging as a central figure in Epstein’s prolonged downfall. The prince settled with Giuffre in 2022 for an undisclosed sum, agreeing to make a “substantial donation” to her survivors’ organization.

While being quizzed about which powerful men were friends with the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell told Deputy AG Todd Blanche that Epstein did know Robert Kennedy Jr., who leads the Health and Human Services Department under President Donald Trump.

Maxwell said they went on a trip together, “dinosaur bone hunting in the Dakotas,” in the early 1990s.

Asked by Blanche if she had any recollection of any inappropriate behavior involving Kennedy on the trip, Maxwell replied: “I never saw anything inappropriate with Mr. Kennedy.”

The Justice Department transcripts show Ghislaine Maxwell repeatedly denying, under questioning from Todd Blanche, that she had observed President Donald Trump engage in any form of sexual behavior during the time he was friends with Jeffrey Epstein.

Maxwell recalled knowing about Trump and possibly meeting him for the first time in 1990, when her newspaper magnate father, 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 liked him very much,” Maxwell said, according to the transcript, saying that her late father had been fond of Trump’s then-wife Ivana “because she was also from Czechoslovakia, where my dad was from.”

“As far as I’m concerned, President Trump was always very cordial and very kind to me,” Maxwell said. “I admire his extraordinary achievement in becoming the president now. And I like him, and I’ve always liked him. So that is the sum and substance of my entire relationship with him.”

Maxwell told Blanche she didn’t know how Epstein and Trump met, nor how they became friends.

“I certainly saw them together, and I remember the few times I observed them together, but they were friendly,” she said. “I mean, they seemed friendly.”

Maxwell said she recalled only seeing Epstein and Trump in social settings, not private settings. Asked by Blanche if she ever observed Trump receiving a massage, she answered: “Never.”

“I actually never saw the President in any type of massage setting,” Maxwell said. “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.”

Maxwell estimated that she hadn’t seen Trump since the mid-2000s, again in a social setting. Asked if she ever heard Epstein or anyone else say Trump “had done anything inappropriate with masseuses” or anyone else in their orbit, Maxwell replied: “Absolutely never, in any context.”

Maxwell said she and Epstein would go to Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club, often separately, though she didn’t say specifically when that was. She said she “loved going there” and that Epstein would “maybe go himself to the spa. I certainly did.”

Brittany Henderson, an attorney representing many Epstein victims and survivors, accused Maxwell of attempting to get clemency from President Donald Trump after the Justice Department released her testimony transcripts.

“Ghislaine Maxwell was federally indicted on two perjury counts as a result of her testimony during her civil deposition. Having been convicted of sex trafficking, she is now in jail, presumably hoping that she will receive a pardon from President Trump,” Henderson said in a statement.

“I can’t imagine that her testimony will be given much weight by anyone with any knowledge whatsoever of her involvement with Jeffrey Epstein,” she added.

The transcripts released today by the Justice Department are from interviews Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche conducted with Ghislaine Maxwell last month.

The sit-down came as the Trump administration scrambled to present itself as transparent amid backlash among even some of Trump’s most loyal supporters over a perceived broken promise to release more information on the investigation into the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Trump has faced questions about his friendship with Epstein, and his administration has endured continued scrutiny over its handling of evidence from the sex-trafficking case.

The ire peaked when Attorney General Pam Bondi said last month that Epstein did not leave behind a “client list,” after earlier suggesting it was on her desk, and said no other evidence would be released.

Blanche later interviewed the imprisoned Maxwell at a Florida courthouse.

The deputy AG prodded Maxwell about the relationship between Epstein and Prince Andrew, as well as “others in the Royal Family.”

She was keen to set the record straight, claiming that she did not introduce the royal and Epstein. She alleged that instead, another friend had invited Epstein to a house she was renting on Nantucket, or Martha’s Vineyard, and Prince Andrew met him there.

In 2000, Epstein, Maxwell and the prince were seen at President Donald Trump’s club, Mar-a-Lago, according to The Guardian.

Maxwell also stated in the interview that she had run in the same circles as members of the Royal Family.

“I’m English and my close friends are all close friends with Sarah [Ferguson] and Andrew,” Maxwell told the DOJ.

“And I would not say that I was close friends with Andrew before, but certainly we were friendly and certainly his best friends, some of them, are very close with me.”

The convicted sex offender also told Blanche about the transactional nature of her relationship with Epstein, claiming that she worked for him at one point as a general manager at his New Mexico ranch in the Nineties. She then added: “He had never stopped paying me.”

She said he stopped paying her in around 2008 or 2009, when he went to jail. By that time, Epstein was paying her around $250,000 a year, Maxwell said.