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Ghislaine Maxwell, who is serving a 20-year prison sentence for helping the late Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse underage girls over 20 years ago, said in an interview with the US Justice Department in July that she was not aware of any "client list" belonging to Epstein and never saw President Donald Trump behave inappropriately or had a massage at Epstein's establishments.

The audio clip of the interview was released by the Justice Department on Aug 22, a month after Maxwell granted the two-day interview with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche.

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00:00So that narrative that was created and then built upon and it just mushroomed into what,
00:07basically this is like a Salem witch trial. People have lost their minds for this thing.
00:12I understand that, but the issue is how do you satisfy a mob who can't understand the
00:20lifestyle because it's like P. Diddy in Redux on TV with Clintons and Trump. I mean, it's
00:28bananas. And while some of it.
00:33Good morning. Do you have anything to say today?
00:41In 1990, I had come over to New York to help look at some of that. She was having some
00:48advertising issues with the New York Daily News. And in fact, I met, I may have met Donald
00:55Trump at that time because my father was friendly with him and liked him very much.
01:01And I think it should be said that he also very much likes this notion that he blackmailed
01:07men. We don't really have to go there, that he wasn't a businessman and that everything
01:11he did was a fraud or a funk or whatever. I don't believe that to be true.
01:14Why? Sorry?
01:17So you say you don't believe it to be true, but show me why you think that. I know you've
01:21been talking about it, that he was very conscientious. He was very good at math. He paid a lot of
01:27attention to his clients. But yes, you're right. There's allegations of blackmail or also that
01:32there was some level of fraud involved in what he did. And you don't believe it. Why
01:36do you say that?
01:37Well, let me rephrase that. If there was fraud, I never saw it. What I saw or what I felt
01:44when I, his, I ran that office. I mean, ran. I didn't, I was responsible for the staff.
01:50People worked. There were lawyers. There were accountants. I never heard him. I never,
01:58I never felt anything, I don't know, icky.
02:01What did you observe as far as President Trump and his relationship with you or Mr. Epstein?
02:08Well, I just want to say for my relationship with President Trump, relationship's a big
02:14word, but I just want to say that I met him or I believe I may have because of my father
02:18in the 90s. So my father liked him very much and he really liked his wife as well because
02:26they were both Czechoslovakian. And as far as I'm concerned, President Trump was always
02:32very cordial and very kind to me. And I just want to say that I find, I admire his extraordinary
02:41achievement in becoming the president now. And I like him. And I've always liked him.
02:47So that is the sum and substance of my entire relationship with him.
02:51What about Mr. Epstein's relationship with him?
02:53I don't know how they met and I don't know how they became friends. I certainly saw them
02:57together. And I remember the few times I observed them together that they were friendly. I mean,
03:03was that in social settings or was that in private settings?
03:07I believe I only ever saw them in social settings. I don't recall any private settings.
03:11Did you ever observe President Trump receive a massage?
03:15Never. I don't know Epstein's, if he had, whatever the nature of the president's friendship,
03:22if you will, or however you want to define that with Epstein. I was never witness. I think they
03:27were friendly, like people are in social settings. I don't think they were close friends or I don't
03:32recall ever seeing him in his house, for instance. I actually never saw the president in any type of
03:38massage setting. I never witnessed the president in any inappropriate setting in any way. The president
03:44was never inappropriate with anybody. In the times that I was with him, he was a gentleman in all
03:49respects. And did you ever hear Mr. Epstein or anybody say that President Trump had done
03:56anything inappropriate with masseuses or with anybody in your world? Absolutely never. In any
04:03context. There's been a lot of conversations about whether Mr. Epstein maintained like a list of
04:11people, like a book of famous people that he knew. It's called a black book or a client list or a list
04:19did you know the existence of any such list? There is no list. We'll start with that. The
04:26genesis of that story, I can actually trace for you from its absolute inception, if that is what
04:34you're interested in. First, you know, to be short, there is no list. There's no client list, nothing
04:40like that. No, there's nothing like that. This department is also sending some of the Epstein files
04:47over to the House Oversight Committee today. Are you, are you in support of them releasing all of
04:52them? I'm in support of keeping it open. Innocent people shouldn't be hurt, but I'm in support of
04:56keeping it totally open. I couldn't care less. You got a lot of people that it could be mentioned
05:00in those files that don't deserve to be people because he knew everybody in Palm Beach. I don't
05:05know anything about that, but I have said to Pam and everybody else, give them everything you can give
05:09them because it's a, it's a Democrat hoax. It's just a hoax. The whole Epstein thing is a Democrat
05:14hoax. So we had the greatest six months, seven months in the history of the presidency and the
05:20Democrats don't know what to do. So they keep bringing up that stuff, but it affected them.
05:25The Bill Clinton was on his plane and went to the island supposedly 28 times. I don't want to bring
05:31that up, frankly. You have Larry, whatever his name is, Summers, the head of Harvard, who was Jeffrey
05:38Epstein's best friend. Nobody ever talks about that. I mean, I, but I don't want to hurt Larry Summers,
05:43but he was best friends with Jeffrey Epstein. No, this is a democratic hoax to try and get
05:48the, uh, the significance of what we've done over the past seven months. Nobody's ever seen
05:55anything like it. They say it's number one in history. What we've done, including stopping
06:00seven wars. I mean, just include that.
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