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BumRushDaShow

(172,306 posts)
Tue Aug 5, 2025, 01:48 PM Aug 2025

Trump team weighs releasing Ghislaine Maxwell's interview with DOJ officials over Epstein case: report

Source: The Independent

Tuesday 05 August 2025 16:25 BST


The Trump administration is considering publicly releasing an audio recording of an interview with Ghislaine Maxwell and senior officials from the Department of Justice about Jeffrey Epstein, according to a new report.

It was not previously known that such a recording existed, and officials are currently discussing whether or not to release a transcript of the discussion between the British socialite and Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche.

Maxwell, 63, was the disgraced financier’s ex-girlfriend, and is currently serving a 20-year prison sentence after her 2021 conviction for her role in a scheme to sexually exploit and abuse multiple girls. Her attorneys have taken an appeal of her conviction to the Supreme Court.

The interview between the socialite and the DOJ came following ongoing pressure on the administration to be more transparent over the Epstein case, following a July 6 memo which stated that convicted pedophile died by suicide in 2019 and there was no evidence to support the existence of a so-called “client list.” Such claims caused uproar among the MAGA faithful.

Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/ghislaine-maxwell-doj-interview-epstein-b2802282.html

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Trump team weighs releasing Ghislaine Maxwell's interview with DOJ officials over Epstein case: report (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Aug 2025 OP
Do or don't do. C_U_L8R Aug 2025 #1
Just hearing this, tells me that bluestarone Aug 2025 #2
Maxwell was rewarded by being moved to a country club prison. speak easy Aug 2025 #3
"Trump team weighs releasing Ghislaine Maxwell's interview" LiberalLovinLug Aug 2025 #4
How would we know it isn't generative AI? emulatorloo Aug 2025 #5
Have to count on the data forensics folks out there BumRushDaShow Aug 2025 #6
👍🏼 emulatorloo Aug 2025 #7
It doesn't have to be fake. Blanche would have coached her first and then made a recording exonerating Trump.. Lonestarblue Aug 2025 #13
"Weighing" whether her reading from her script will sound too stilted PSPS Aug 2025 #8
Whatever is on this recording is definitely johnnyfins Aug 2025 #9
Poison potential jury pools, no trial, no judge to release the evidence. GreenWave Aug 2025 #10
I still would like to know why the Clinton's johnnyfins Aug 2025 #11
I expect you know the answer is obvious BumRushDaShow Aug 2025 #12

C_U_L8R

(49,534 posts)
1. Do or don't do.
Tue Aug 5, 2025, 01:51 PM
Aug 2025

Trump can't help but deploy these moronic PR balloons to froth up his magats. Pure crap.

LiberalLovinLug

(14,757 posts)
4. "Trump team weighs releasing Ghislaine Maxwell's interview"
Tue Aug 5, 2025, 02:14 PM
Aug 2025

ie: Weighing if they can get away with her compromised testimony that excludes Dear Leader from all records and personal memory. If enough of the MAGA base will fall for it or not.

emulatorloo

(46,155 posts)
5. How would we know it isn't generative AI?
Tue Aug 5, 2025, 02:25 PM
Aug 2025

Would not put anything past Trump and Bondi and Patel.

BumRushDaShow

(172,306 posts)
6. Have to count on the data forensics folks out there
Tue Aug 5, 2025, 02:39 PM
Aug 2025

who love sniffing out fakes. They figured out that the so-called "raw" Epstein tape wasn't "raw" at all.

Lonestarblue

(13,561 posts)
13. It doesn't have to be fake. Blanche would have coached her first and then made a recording exonerating Trump..
Tue Aug 5, 2025, 05:59 PM
Aug 2025

PSPS

(15,376 posts)
8. "Weighing" whether her reading from her script will sound too stilted
Tue Aug 5, 2025, 02:44 PM
Aug 2025

They can probably remove the sound of her flipping the pages in post.

johnnyfins

(3,993 posts)
9. Whatever is on this recording is definitely
Tue Aug 5, 2025, 03:34 PM
Aug 2025

NOT truth. She is already a well known liar and a convicted criminal.

GreenWave

(12,800 posts)
10. Poison potential jury pools, no trial, no judge to release the evidence.
Tue Aug 5, 2025, 03:34 PM
Aug 2025

Not just the GOP sanitized version.

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