Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche announced on Friday afternoon that he was “releasing the complete transcript and audio of my proffer of Ms. Maxwell. The transcript and audio are linked below.” Blanche’s meeting with convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell in late July came amid ongoing fury at Trump’s DOJ and FBI releasing a memo in early July, effectively closing the Jeffrey Epstein case and concluding the various conspiracy theories surrounding it were all false.
Blanche, a former personal lawyer to President Donald Trump, added, “The audio is divided into segments to reflect breaks during the interview. Some segments are shorter than others. Shorter segments are a result of audio tests and size limitations per recorded session. Except for the names of victims, every word is included. Nothing removed. Nothing hidden.”
The materials released by the Trump DOJ included a transcript broken into 4 parts and over a dozen audio files of the two-day interview.
“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,” Maxwell said at one point during the conversation.
ABC News reported on Friday that Maxwell “provided no incriminating information” during her meetings with Blanche, according to sources familiar with the materials. The report noted, however, that “according to sources familiar with internal deliberations that preceded the meeting with Maxwell, Blanche was encouraged by some top administration officials to seek information that could lead to criminal investigations that might quiet the outrage from some of Trump’s most vocal supporters.”
Criticism reverberated throughout the media and political world regarding Blanche’s meeting with Maxwell, as many worried it was a precursor to Trump pardoning Maxwell in exchange for some kind of exoneration in the Jeffrey Epstein criminal saga. Maxwell was moved to a much nicer prison following the meeting, which critics also decried as special treatment and Democrats suggested could amount to “witness tampering.”
“The transfer follows Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche’s private interviews of Ms. Maxwell arranged after a firestorm of media attention about the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) refusal to release the full Epstein files as originally demanded by President Donald Trump. These actions raise substantial concerns that the Administration may now be attempting to tamper with a crucial witness, conceal President Trump’s relationship with convicted sex offenders, and coax Ms. Maxwell into providing false or misleading testimony in order to protect the President,” fumed Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) in a recent letter to DOJ.
The audio is divided into segments to reflect breaks during the interview. Some segments are shorter than others. Shorter segments are a result of audio tests and size limitations per recorded session.
— Todd Blanche (@DAGToddBlanche) August 22, 2025
Except for the names of victims, every word is included. Nothing removed.…
