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Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell told the Justice Department she never witnessed any “inappropriate” behavior by powerful men connected to Epstein—including President Donald Trump and former President Bill Clinton—as DOJ released a full transcript and audio of its interview with Maxwell Friday as prosecutors started handing over their Epstein files to Congress.

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00:00Did you ever observe President Trump receive a massage?
00:04Never.
00:06Did you ever observe, you said that you were, I mean, have you seen, there's photographs,
00:14public photographs of Mr. Epstein and President Trump together.
00:20Yes.
00:20And there's photographs of, I think you're in some of the photographs as well.
00:25Those all appear to be social settings.
00:26Yes.
00:27Yes. That's my memory. There were social settings.
00:30I don't know Epstein's, if he had, whatever the nature of the President's friendship, if you will,
00:39however you want to define that with Epstein, I was never witnessed.
00:43I think they were friendly, like people are in social settings.
00:46I don't think they were close friends or, I certainly never witnessed the President in any of,
00:55I don't recall ever seeing him in his house, for instance.
00:58I actually never saw the President in any type of massage setting.
01:02I never witnessed the President in any inappropriate setting in any way.
01:07The President was never inappropriate with anybody.
01:09In the times that I was with him, he was a gentleman, in all respects.
01:15When's the last time you think you saw, in person, President Trump?
01:22It's been a long time.
01:25Probably not sometime in the beginning, mid-2000s maybe, and it would only have been a social setting,
01:34as far as I recall.
01:36And did you ever hear Mr. Epstein, or anybody, say that President Trump had done anything inappropriate
01:44with masseuses or with anybody in your world?
01:48Absolutely never.
01:50In any context.
01:51Do you know whether masseuses from Mar-a-Lago Spa ended up giving massages to, private massages to Mr. Epstein?
02:05I'm not asking what you may have read, but at the time, from your personal knowledge, do you know whether that's true?
02:11I don't, I don't recall.
02:14Is it possible?
02:15Yes.
02:16But I don't remember, I don't remember that.
02:18So, I don't want to, I don't recall that, but it's possible.
02:22Do you have recollection of you ever recruiting a masseuse from Mar-a-Lago Spa to give, to go give a private massage to Mr. Epstein?
02:30I've never recruited a masseuse from Mar-a-Lago for that, as far as I remember.
02:35I can't ever recollect doing that.
02:37Um.
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