Ghislaine Maxwell could reveal the truth about Trump's encounter with 14-year-old Epstein victim who testified at her trial
This comes as senior officials from the President's Department of Justice met with Maxwell yesterday, and resurfaced transcripts from her 2021 trial reveal that Trump was once introduced to the underage girl.
The victim, who testified under the pseudonym 'Jane,' claimed she was repeatedly raped and abused by Epstein - and that he brought her to Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in the mid-1990s, where the introduction occurred.
At the time, Trump and Epstein were allegedly close friends, with the future president having flown multiple times on Epstein's private jet.
This emerges as the White House scrambles to contain a bombshell report that Pam Bondi warned Trump months ago his name appears 'multiple times' in the Epstein files and House Oversight members support subpoenaing the disgraced heiress.
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, who met Maxwell at a federal courthouse in Tallahassee, Florida, on Thursday, has said he is seeking 'all credible evidence' from her.
Blanche has said: 'If Ghislaine Maxwell has information about anyone who has committed crimes against victims, the FBI and the DOJ will hear what she has to say'.
And Maxwell wants to talk too, according to a source who told DailyMail.com, 'she would be more than happy to sit before Congress and tell her story.'
'No-one from the government has ever asked her to share what she knows. She remains the only person to be jailed in connection to Epstein, and she would welcome the chance to tell the American public the truth.'
Trump's ties to Jeffrey Epstein have come under renewed scrutiny since July 7, when the Department of Justice and FBI issued a memo stating that no further charges would be filed and no additional information about the case would be made public.
The announcement triggered backlash from the president's own supporters, who accused him of backtracking on his campaign promises.
Even members of the president's own party on the House Oversight Committee are risking his ire to hear Maxwell's testimony, with the push to subpoena her led by Tennessee Representative Tim Burchett and backed by Chair James Comer, Anna Paulina Luna, Nancy Mace and Marjorie Taylor Greene.
'The Committee will seek to subpoena Ms. Maxwell as expeditiously as possible,' an Oversight spokesperson said.
'Since Ms. Maxwell is in federal prison, the Committee will work with the Department of Justice and Bureau of Prisons to identify a date when the Committee can depose her.'
In response to the backlash, Trump has expressed support for releasing grand jury transcripts related to the arrests of Epstein, who died by suicide in 2019 while awaiting trial, and Ghislaine Maxwell.
Fueling the outrage is a bombshell Wall Street Journal report claiming that Attorney General Pam Bondi informed Trump months ago that his name appears 'multiple times' in the Epstein files - the same day she advised against releasing all documents.
According to sources, Bondi urged the administration to withhold the remaining files due to the presence of child pornography and sensitive information about victims, after Trump gave her final authority over the decision.
There is no suggestion that Trump participated in the abuse of 'Jane' - the victim who testified she was recruited by Epstein and Maxwell when she was just 14 years old.
And just because the president is named in the files, it does not implicate him in any wrongdoing or connect him to Epstein's child sex trafficking crimes.
During her first encounter with Epstein, he took her to the pool house of his Palm Beach home, pulled down his pants and masturbated on her, leaving Jane 'frozen in fear', she recalled.
The abuse continued for several years, and Jane said she flew with Epstein and Maxwell around 10 times, sometimes to New York or his ranch in New Mexico.
Referring to Epstein and Maxwell, prosecutors asked Jane 'What names do you recall them mentioning to you when they would tell you about their social circle?'
Jane replied: 'Donald Trump, Bill Clinton, Mike Wallace', referring to the late CBS 60 Minutes journalist.
Prosecutors asked if Epstein 'introduced you to Donald Trump' and she replied: 'Correct.'
Jane confirmed that was 'correct' and confirmed that it took place when she was 14.
Prosecutors asked: 'You met Donald Trump there; correct?'
Jane said: 'Correct.'
According to Jane, she also took part in a teen beauty pageant in the 1990s that Trump ran.
Looking back, she called it 'embarrassing' and said she wasn't sure if Epstein gave her a $2,000 dress to take part.
In total, Trump's name came up 13 times during the 18 days of evidence in Maxwell's trial.
A second victim, who testified as 'Kate', told the court how Maxwell, a British socialite, would brag about her famous friends to her.
Kate said: 'Well, she seemed to know everybody. And she told me that she was friends with Prince Andrew, friends with Donald Trump, friends with lots of famous people.
'And sometimes their names would just come up in conversations or she might be talking on the phone about them with me present.'
Among the others who brought up Trump was Juan Alessi, Epstein's house manager at his Palm Beach home.
He told the jury about seeing photos of 'important people' around the house - including Trump - as well as photos of nude girls and a naked Maxwell.
Alessi said: 'I think there was a photograph with Mr. Trump. Photographs with - if I remember, I think there was a photograph with the Pope. I think there was a photograph with Fidel Castro.
'There were many photographs with females topless. Usually, they were kept at Ms. Maxwell's desk.'
Maxwell was convicted in early 2022 of luring underage girls to Epstein, who repeatedly abused and raped them.
A jury found her guilty of conspiracy to entice minors to travel to engage in illegal sex acts, conspiracy to transport minors to participate in illegal sex acts, transporting a minor to participate in illegal sex acts, sex trafficking conspiracy and sex trafficking of a minor.
She is currently serving a 20-year sentence at FCI Tallahassee, where DOJ officials flew to meet her.
Trump and Epstein were friends for more than two decades and a video of them in Mar-a-Lago in 1992 shows them laughing together while leering at women.
In a 2002 interview with New York magazine, the President called Epstein a 'terrific guy.'
He said: 'He's a lot of fun to be with.
'It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side. No doubt about it - Jeffrey enjoys his social life.'
More recently, Trump has tried repeatedly to contain the fallout from the Epstein scandal resurfacing.
He has called it a 'hoax' created by the Democrats and called his supporters who believed the story 'weaklings'.
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