(22 Jul 2025)
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Washington, DC – 22 July 2025
1. Wide, U.S. President Donald Trump listening to reporter’s question
2. UPSOUND (English) Reporter asking question:
"Mr. President, do you support the Justice Department seeking a new interview with Ghislaine Maxwell and did you urge the Attorney General to seek one?"
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Donald Trump, U.S. President:
"I don’t know anything about it. They’re gonna what? Meet her?"
4. UPSOUND (English) Reporter asking question:
"They are going to … your deputy Attorney General has reached out to Ghislaine Maxwell’s attorney asking for a new interview?"
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Donald Trump, U.S. President:
"Yeah, I don’t know about it, but I think it’s something that would be sounds appropriate to do yeah."
6. UPSOUND (English) Reporter asking question:
"Do you have any concern that your deputy Attorney General is your former attorney who would be conducting the interview given …"
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Donald Trump, U.S. President:
"No, I have no concern. He’s a very talented person. He’s very smart. I didn’t know that they were going to do it. I don’t really follow that too much. It’s sort of a witch hunt."
STORYLINE:
President Donald Trump said it’s “appropriate” for the Justice Department to seek a new interview with Ghislaine Maxwell, the former girlfriend of Jeffrey Epstein who was convicted of helping the financier sexually abuse underage girls.
Asked Tuesday about Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche’s announcement that the department reached out to Maxwell’s lawyers for an interview, Trump said he didn’t know about it “but that would be, sounds appropriate to do.”
Added Trump, who has faced a political crisis over records related to Epstein’s sex trafficking investigation: “I don’t really follow that too much. It’s sort of a witch hunt.”
Maxwell’s lawyer confirmed Tuesday there were discussions with the government and says Maxwell will always testify truthfully.
The overture to attorneys for Maxwell is part of a Justice Department effort to cast itself as transparent following fierce backlash from parts of Trump’s base over an earlier refusal to release additional records in the Epstein investigation.
Blanche says the Republican president has told the department "to release all credible evidence.”
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