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BumRushDaShow

(159,252 posts)
Tue Aug 5, 2025, 01:48 PM Aug 5

Trump team weighs releasing Ghislaine Maxwell's interview with DOJ officials over Epstein case: report

Source: The Independent

Tuesday 05 August 2025 16:25 BST


The Trump administration is considering publicly releasing an audio recording of an interview with Ghislaine Maxwell and senior officials from the Department of Justice about Jeffrey Epstein, according to a new report.

It was not previously known that such a recording existed, and officials are currently discussing whether or not to release a transcript of the discussion between the British socialite and Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche.

Maxwell, 63, was the disgraced financier’s ex-girlfriend, and is currently serving a 20-year prison sentence after her 2021 conviction for her role in a scheme to sexually exploit and abuse multiple girls. Her attorneys have taken an appeal of her conviction to the Supreme Court.

The interview between the socialite and the DOJ came following ongoing pressure on the administration to be more transparent over the Epstein case, following a July 6 memo which stated that convicted pedophile died by suicide in 2019 and there was no evidence to support the existence of a so-called “client list.” Such claims caused uproar among the MAGA faithful.

Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/ghislaine-maxwell-doj-interview-epstein-b2802282.html

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C_U_L8R

(47,967 posts)
1. Do or don't do.
Tue Aug 5, 2025, 01:51 PM
Aug 5

Trump can't help but deploy these moronic PR balloons to froth up his magats. Pure crap.

LiberalLovinLug

(14,502 posts)
4. "Trump team weighs releasing Ghislaine Maxwell's interview"
Tue Aug 5, 2025, 02:14 PM
Aug 5

ie: Weighing if they can get away with her compromised testimony that excludes Dear Leader from all records and personal memory. If enough of the MAGA base will fall for it or not.

BumRushDaShow

(159,252 posts)
6. Have to count on the data forensics folks out there
Tue Aug 5, 2025, 02:39 PM
Aug 5

who love sniffing out fakes. They figured out that the so-called "raw" Epstein tape wasn't "raw" at all.

Lonestarblue

(12,910 posts)
13. It doesn't have to be fake. Blanche would have coached her first and then made a recording exonerating Trump..
Tue Aug 5, 2025, 05:59 PM
Aug 5

PSPS

(14,858 posts)
8. "Weighing" whether her reading from her script will sound too stilted
Tue Aug 5, 2025, 02:44 PM
Aug 5

They can probably remove the sound of her flipping the pages in post.

johnnyfins

(2,756 posts)
9. Whatever is on this recording is definitely
Tue Aug 5, 2025, 03:34 PM
Aug 5

NOT truth. She is already a well known liar and a convicted criminal.

GreenWave

(11,417 posts)
10. Poison potential jury pools, no trial, no judge to release the evidence.
Tue Aug 5, 2025, 03:34 PM
Aug 5

Not just the GOP sanitized version.

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