Political affairs network C-SPAN will air more than nine hours of interview footage involving Ghislaine Maxwell and a top official at the U.S. Department of Justice, the broadcaster announced on Friday.
The nine-hour interview will air on C-SPAN in prime-time, starting at 8 p.m. Eastern Time (5 p.m. Pacific Time) on the main C-SPAN channel. The interview will also be streamed for authenticated cable and satellite customers on C-SPAN’s website and the C-SPAN Now app. A rebroadcast of the interview will occur Saturday at 1 p.m. Eastern Time (10 a.m. Pacific Time).
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In a two-day conversation last month at a Florida courthouse, Maxwell told Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche that speculation about a secret client list related to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein was unfounded. The transcript of the interviews were released early Friday afternoon.
“The President was never inappropriate with anybody. In the times that I was with him, he was a gentleman in all respects,” Maxwell said.
Her comments came as Blanche questioned her about Trump’s past social ties to Epstein. Blanche and Attorney General Pam Bondi had previously informed Trump that his name appeared multiple times in files connected to Epstein, the Wall Street Journal reported. The White House dismissed the report as “fake news.”
Maxwell, who is serving a 20-year prison sentence for sex trafficking, is appealing her conviction and seeking a pardon. Blanche told her the government was not offering a cooperation agreement, saying, “We’re just talking.” A week later, Maxwell was transferred to a minimum-security prison camp in Bryan, Texas.
She said Epstein kept no “client list” and she never saw associates abuse underage girls. “I never, ever saw any man doing something inappropriate with a woman of any age. I never saw inappropriate habits,” Maxwell said.
Maxwell also said she does not believe Epstein died by suicide while in federal custody in 2019. “If it is indeed murder, I believe it was an internal situation,” she told Blanche. A medical examiner ruled his death a suicide, and investigators reaffirmed that conclusion in July.
Asked about theories linking Epstein to intelligence agencies, Maxwell dismissed the idea. “I just don’t think he had the wherewithal,” she said, calling the theory “bulls–t.”
She added that her father, Robert Maxwell, who died in 1991, had ties to intelligence. “Certainly my father had a background in intelligence,” she said.
David Markus, Maxwell’s attorney, said in a statement that she did not receive a fair trial and “didn’t dodge any questions.” He thanked Blanche and the Justice Department for releasing the interview tapes.
