Ghislaine Maxwell denies seeing 'inappropriate' conduct by Trump
Newshour
BBC
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🗓️ 23 August 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
The US justice department has released transcripts of its recent interviews with Ghislaine Maxwell, the jailed associate of the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. In them, Maxwell denied the existence of any "client list" kept by Epstein. She also said she'd never seen President Trump acting inappropriately.
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(Photo: Court sketch of Ghislaine Maxwell during jury selection in New York, November 17th 2021 Credit: REUTERS/Jane Rosenberg)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to News Hour from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:05.9 | Coming to you live from London, I'm James Kimmer Asami. |
| 0:09.4 | Does it exist? Who is on it? |
| 0:12.7 | The Epstein Client List, the alleged list of high-profile figures |
| 0:16.8 | kept by the late child sexual abuser Geoffrey Epstein |
| 0:19.5 | has cast something of a shadow over Donald Trump's second term in office. |
| 0:24.1 | For some of his MAGA support base, |
| 0:26.0 | the failure of the White House to release more details |
| 0:28.3 | about the Justice Department's investigation into Epstein |
| 0:31.4 | has shaken their faith in the president's ability |
| 0:34.1 | or perhaps willingness to expose what they regard as an establishment cover-up, |
| 0:38.6 | a perspective that was encouraged in the recent past by some people who know hold senior positions |
| 0:43.7 | in the Trump administration. |
| 0:46.3 | Well, now the US Justice Department has shared thousands of files with the US Congress |
| 0:50.5 | and released hundreds of pages of transcriptss as well as an audio recording of its |
| 0:55.0 | recent interviews with Gilane Maxwell, Epstein's jailed associate and ex-girlfriend. In them, |
| 1:01.2 | the British socialite said that she wasn't aware of any client list. Well, Maxwell, who was |
| 1:06.3 | convicted of sex trafficking offences and sentenced to 20 years in prison is seeking a pardon from President Trump. |
| 1:13.4 | And shortly after the interviews with the Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, |
| 1:16.9 | a former personal lawyer of the president, |
| 1:19.3 | she was moved from a prison in Florida to a minimum security facility in Texas. |
| 1:25.1 | We'll discuss what she said in the interviews in a moment with someone who has followed |
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