Trump ‘was never inappropriate with anybody,’ Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell told DOJ

WASHINGTON — The late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein’s convicted accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell, told Justice Department officials last month that President Trump was “never inappropriate with anybody” in the time the disgraced financier and future commander in chief were friends.

Maxwell, who is serving a 20-year prison sentence after being convicted in December 2021 of sex trafficking and conspiracy charges, sat for two days of interviews led by Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche in Tallahassee, Fla., July 24 and 25.

“I never witnessed the President in any inappropriate setting in any way,” Maxwell told Blanche, Trump’s former defense attorney, of her interactions with the president when he was a friend of Epstein in the ’90s and early 2000s.

Maxwell, 63, provided virtually no new information on other boldfaced names associated with Epstein, including former President Bill Clinton, Prince Andrew, former Harvard University President Larry Summers, Microsoft founder Bill Gates and former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak.

Audio and transcripts of the interviews were released Friday as the Trump administration seeks to quash rampant speculation about Epstein, who was found dead in his Manhattan jail cell Aug. 10, 2019.

The UK-born Maxwell pushed back on almost every conspiratorial accusation leveled about Epstein since his 2008 guilty plea in Florida to soliciting sex from a minor, which saw him confined for 13 months — much of that time on work release.

Those included allegations that the disgraced financier had a so-called “client list” of rich and influential associates who were either involved in or blackmailed by Epstein to keep quiet about a shadowy sex trafficking ring that preyed on girls as young as 14.

Maxwell likened the claims to “a Salem witch trial” frenzy against powerful politicians like Clinton, who she said “never” visited Epstein’s  “pedophile island” in the US Virgin Islands, despite claims to the contrary from an Eptein victim and a former Clinton aide.

“That narrative that was created and then built upon, and it just mushroomed into what — basically this is like a Salem witch trial,” said Maxwell, who was transferred to a lower-security prison in Texas shortly after the interview.

“People have gone and lost their minds for this thing. I understand that. But the issue is, how do you satisfy a mob who can’t understand the lifestyle? Because it’s like P. Diddy in redux on TV with Clintons and Trump,” Maxwell continued.

“I mean, it’s — it’s bananas. And while some of it is real — he [Epstein] did do those things, I’m definitely not disputing that,” she added.

“But this was a man, they didn’t even believe he had a real business. I happen to believe he did. 

“He’s not that interesting,” Maxwell summed up her former lover at one point.

“He’s a disgusting guy who did terrible things to young kids.”

Maxwell did break with the official story on one point, saying of Epstein “I do not believe he died by suicide,” contradicting the conclusion of a July 6 memo released by the DOJ and FBI.

She added that it was “possible” the 66-year-old was targeted in his Manhattan jail by others, but she didn’t believe that his so-called “blackmail” was being avenged.

“I don’t think Epstein had a hit on like that. If it is indeed murder, I believe it was an internal situation,” she claimed.

“In prison, where I am, they will kill you or they will pay — somebody can pay a prisoner to kill you for $25 worth of commissary. That’s about the going rate for a hit with a lock today.”

Maxwell’s interview did little to resolve major outstanding matters of public debate, including the possibility that Epstein served as either a US or Israeli intelligence asset.

Maxwell, whose father Robert was himself a reputed Mossad agent said that she had “not deliberately” interacted with anyone from the Israeli spy force, but that she wouldn’t know if Epstein had.

“I don’t believe so, but I wouldn’t know. I mean, I would be very surprised if he did,” she said, while also saying “I don’t” know the nature of Barak’s relationship with Epstein, which featured about 30 documented interactions in 2013-2017 alone.

Maxwell conceded that it was possible she lacks some information about Epstein’s associates due to willful ignorance. 

“They’re men that went and had a massage and maybe did something sexual, they’re men, I wasn’t in the room. I cannot tell you if that happened,” she said.

“Nobody ever said to me, ‘Oh, you know, we had sexual intercourse’… I’d be like, ‘Okay, TMI, no, not my business.’”

Maxwell aso said she lacked “full recollection” of the reasons why Epstein transferred her $30 million over the years.

The revival of public interest in the case came this year after Attorney General Pam Bondi hyped looming bombshells — at one point appearing to indicate that there was a client list.

Bondi ultimately released the July 6 memo  asserting that there was no client list and that although Epstein allegedly victimized more than 1,000 women and girls, there was no “evidence that could predicate an investigation against uncharged third parties.”

The AG also insisted in that memo that “no further disclosure would be appropriate or warranted,” embroiling the president in a weeks-long rebellion from supporters who wanted more disclosures. 

The Maxwell transcript release coincided with the Justice Department on Friday afternoon providing the Republican-led House Oversight Committee with “many other records” on the case, according to a spokeswoman.

“It’s a lot—tens of thousands of pages,” the committee rep added of the first document production.

“The Committee intends to make these records public after thorough review to ensure any victims’ identification and child sexual abuse material are redacted. The Committee will also consult with the DOJ to ensure any documents released do not negatively impact ongoing criminal cases and investigations.”

Trump said Friday that he wants greater transparency and supports “keeping it totally open, I couldn’t care less,” insisting that he was being falsely attacked for his past association with Epstein as part of a Democrat-led “hoax.”