Convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell’s highly-edited interview with Trump administration Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, President Donald Trump’s former personal attorney, has been released, and is filled with false claims, amnesia, and praise for Trump, who was good friends with her employer child sex abuser Jeffrey Epstein, notes Raw Story:
Trump’s former personal lawyer, Todd Blanche, asks Maxwell, “Do you know whether 14 masseuses from Mar-a-Lago’s spa ended up giving 15 massages to — private massages to Mr. Epstein? I’m not asking for what you may have read, but from — at the time, from your personal knowledge, do you know whether that’s true?”
Maxwell replied, “I — I don’t — I don’t recall. Is it possible? Yes. But I don’t remember — I don’t remember that. So I don’t want to — I don’t recall that, but it’s possible.”
Maxwell: “I just want you to understand my — my memory’s not as good as it was, because when I was in Brooklyn, I was in the SHU for almost two years, and I was on suicide watch for almost two years, which meant that they woke me up every 15 minutes for the entire time. And it’s — it really did affect my ability to …” Blanche interrupted her, “Understood.”
Maxwell also denied Epstein killed himself:
“I do not believe he died by suicide, no,” Maxwell said.
Blanche asked, “And do you believe that — do you have any speculation or view of who killed him?”
“I — no, I don’t,” Maxwell said.
Maxwell also praised 34-time felon and adjudicated rapist Trump:
“So my father liked him very much, and he was loved — really liked his wife as well, because we were both Czechoslovakian. And as far as I’m concerned, President Trump was always very cordial and very kind to me. And I just want to say that I find — I — I admire his extraordinary achievement in becoming the president now. And I like him, and I’ve always liked him. So that is the sum and substance of my entire relationship with him.”
At another point, she explained that Trump was “never inappropriate” with her.
“The president was never inappropriate with anybody. He was a gentleman in all respects.”
Blanche confirmed Maxwell never witnessed any inappropriate actions on the part of Donald Trump whenever she was around him in social settings.
“Absolutely never in any context.”
Maxwell also claimed there is no Epstein client list:
Blanche: “So there’s been a lot of conversations about whether Mr. Epstein maintained, like, a list of people, like a book of famous people that he knew. Like a, it’s called a black book or a client list or a list. Did you know of the existence of any such list?”
Maxwell: There is no list. We’ll start with that. The genesis of that story, I can actually trace for you from its absolute inception, if that is what you’re interested in.”
Blanche confirms there is no list “that you know of.”
Maxwell: “The origin of this story, I believe, begins — or it has a beginning in 2009, and then it has a prequel but we have to start in 2009. In 2009, there is — Epstein is, I think, out of jail, and there are civil suits taking place. Many of these are coming out of a disgraced law firm, Rothstein Adler — Rothstein, Rosenfeldt & Adler. At that law firm is a lawyer who started there in April, May, 2009, called Brad Edwards.”
“In 2009, allegedly the FBI gets a call in October of 2009 from Brad Edwards, and he allegedly tells them that he has come across a piece of evidence that belongs to Epstein, that contains a list of all of his clients and victims, underage girls, massage therapists, and his — and the men who are having sex with them. And he becomes — he, Brad Edwards becomes a cooperating witness — cooperating — confidential informant, sorry. Confidential informant for them.”
“And in a sting operation obtains the list from a former butler of Epstein’s called Alfredo Rodriguez. And it becomes evidence in the civil suit. In the — Alfredo Rodriguez is subsequently prosecuted for having an AK-47 or something weird, some guns or something, and goes to trial. And there’s a criminal complaint that the FBI produced. And in that criminal complaint, it says that Brad Edwards became aware of the list, but — we’ll call it the list for the purposes of this.”
“After Alfredo Rodriguez’s two depositions that are held in Epstein’s civil suit. It’s in the FBI’s affidavit that the evidence was collected, and Brad Edwards became aware of it after the second deposition. It’s in the criminal complaint. The truth is different from what’s in both the criminal complaint and in that FBI affidavit, and in Brad Edward’s own statements on the subject.
“The truth is that Alfredo Rodriguez was deposed twice, once in July and once in August. And in the July deposition, told Brad Edwards that he had handwritten notes or a journal, whatever, in the deposition. And Brad Edwards replies, ‘Well, we’re going to come back for a second deposition.'”
“And the second deposition takes place in August. What this means is that Brad Edwards had access to the list from sometime between July and August, until when he actually called the FBI in October. So we’re talking six months or so. Rothstein’s firm was raided a few days after the list went into the FBI’s hands, and, subsequently, Rothstein himself was prosecuted for RICO, and I believe went to jail for 50 years.”
“As part of that RICO case, he admitted to, on the record, and was — I don’t know whether he was prosecuted for creating fake settlements and fake evidence in Epstein’s case”
(Source: Raw Story)