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Laura Coates Live

Maxwell Says She Never Saw Trump “In Any Inappropriate Setting”

Laura Coates Live

CNN

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4.22.5K Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

The Justice Department on Friday released the long-awaited transcripts of a weeks-old interview it conducted with convicted Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell. The Maxwell interview was one of two steps the White House took to try and quell outrage over its handling of the Epstein files. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

She speaks. Finally, we hear Jeffrey Epstein's accomplice in her own words. So what Delayne Maxwell told the DOJ about Trump,

0:11.9

Epstein, the story she couldn't quite remember. I'm going to tell you. Plus, the FBI goes after one of Trump's most

0:18.3

vocal and high-profile critics critics searching John Boldie's home

0:22.5

and his office. Is it a legitimate investigation or revenge? The dish best served cold. And the parole

0:30.7

hearing for Lyle Melendez, can you believe it? It is still underway late into the night.

0:36.4

Will he be denied pro-like his brother

0:38.5

or face a different outcome?

0:40.5

And later, I go one-on-one with actor Wendell Pierce

0:43.4

tonight on Laura Coates Live.

0:52.6

So we got the transcripts. Okay, we got the audio tapes. But if you think that what we heard from

0:59.3

Galane Maxwell, that's Jeffrey Epstein's longtime associate, if that's going to shut everybody up,

1:05.1

well, you've got another thing coming. And yes, that's taking into account everything that

1:10.1

Galane Maxwell said about the president in her interview with the DOJ.

1:13.6

I'm talking all nine hours of it over the course of two days.

1:18.6

Now, here is what she told the Deputy Attorney General.

1:21.6

The number two, Todd Blanche, about her own relationship with President Trump.

1:26.6

As far as I'm relationship with President Trump.

1:34.6

As far as I'm concerned, President Trump was always very cordial and very kind to me.

1:47.2

And I just want to say that I find, I admire his extraordinary achievement in becoming the president now. And like him and I've always liked him.

1:51.2

So that is the sum substance of my entire relationship with him.

1:57.8

She went even further, by the way, in defending Trump saying that she never saw him do anything inappropriate.

2:00.8

Did you ever observe President Trump receive a massage?

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