WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Division on Friday launched transcripts of interviews its No. 2 official did with Jeffrey Epstein’s imprisoned former girlfriend because the Trump administration scrambles to current itself as clear amid a fierce backlash over an earlier refusal to reveal a trove of information from the sex-trafficking case.
The disclosure represents the newest Trump administration effort to restore self-inflicted political wounds after failing to ship on expectations that its personal officers had created by way of conspiracy theories and daring pronouncements that by no means got here to move. By making public two days price of interviews, officers seem like hoping to not less than quickly hold at bay sustained anger from President Donald Trump’s base at the same time as they proceed to take a seat on different proof they’d urged was being ready for public launch.
“I may have met Donald Trump at that time, because my father was friendly with him and liked him very much,” Maxwell stated, in line with the transcript.
Maxwell stated her father was keen on Trump’s then-wife, Ivana, “because she was also from Czechoslovakia, where my dad was from.”
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