Top DOJ official says he will continue Maxwell interview on Friday, share information ‘at the appropriate time‘
'Today, I met with Ghislaine Maxwell, and I will continue my interview of her tomorrow. The Department of Justice will share additional information about what we learned at the appropriate time,' Blanche said in a Thursday evening post on X.
Blanche met with Maxwell, who was sentenced to 20 years in prison in 2022, for about five hours. Maxwell was a longtime associate of Jeffrey Epstein, a convicted sex offender and financier.
Maxwell's attorney David Oscar Markus said that his client answered every question and expressed gratitude to the federal government for trying to 'uncover the truth.'
'Looking forward to another productive day tomorrow. Ghislaine honestly answered every question that @DAGToddBlanche asked,' the lawyer wrote in a Thursday evening post on X. 'And she will continue to do so. We are grateful that the government is trying to uncover the truth. They have never before spoken with her and we trust the process.'
'He took a full day and asked a lot of questions, and Ms. Maxwell answered every single question,' Markus said to reporters after the interview.
'She never stopped. She never invoked her privilege,' the attorney added. 'She never declined to answer. She answered all the questions truthfully, honestly and to the best of her ability.'
The interview with Maxwell in Florida comes as President Trump's administration is under pressure from the MAGA base and others to release more evidence related to Epstein's case.
Maxwell is currently appealing her 2021 conviction to the Supreme Court, while the DOJ has urged the justices last week to deny her request.
Epstein, who ran in high-powered circles, mingling among politicians, business owners and fashion moguls, was found dead in his jail cell in New York while awaiting trial. The medical examiner ruled that his death was a suicide.
The DOJ and FBI reaffirmed the finding in a joint, unnamed memo earlier this month, stating that Epstein died by suicide and that he did not keep a 'client list.' The memo has infuriated the MAGA base, which has been demanding more transparency. Attorney General Pam Bondi, who said in February she had Epstein's alleged client list 'sitting on my desk right now to review,' later objected to releasing more documents, arguing it would be damaging to Epstein's victims and that the batch was full of pornographic images.
Bondi told Trump in May during a briefing that his name appeared multiple times in the Epstein files, according to The Wall Street Journal. Bondi also said many other high-profile figures have been named, but that alone is not a sign of wrongdoing. The White House brushed off the report.
'The fact is that The President kicked him out of his club for being a creep. This is nothing more than a continuation of the fake news stories concocted by the Democrats and the liberal media, just like the Obama Russiagate scandal, which President Trump was right about,' White House communications director Steven Cheung said in a statement on Wednesday.
Ian Maxwell said Wednesday evening his sister Ghislaine 'will be putting before that court material new evidence that was not available to the defense at her 2021 trial, which would have had a significant impact on its outcome.'
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