Deputy Legal professional Basic Todd Blanche stated Tuesday that it is an “inconceivable query” whether or not Ghislaine Maxwell — who was convicted of trafficking scores of younger ladies to Jeffrey Epstein for sexual abuse — is a “credible” witness in her denials of involvement in Epstein’s crimes.
“It is an inconceivable query to reply,” Blanche stated in his first on-record statements concerning his two-day July sit-down with Maxwell, after the Justice Division launched transcripts from their assembly final month.
“I met along with her for 2 days. To find out whether or not a witness is credible takes weeks and weeks and weeks,” Blanche stated on CNN Tuesday night time.
Todd Blanche, US deputy legal professional common, speaks throughout a press convention within the James S. Brady Briefing Room on the White Home, on June 27, 2025, in Washington D.C.
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Blanche stated throughout his interview that “it is actually as much as the American folks to find out what they consider that her solutions had been credible or whether or not they discovered her not credible.”
Maxwell was indicted in July 2020, through the first Trump administration. Her trial occurred in late 2021, whereas former President Joe Biden was within the White Home.
Ghislaine Maxwell attends the 4th Annual WIE Symposium, Sept. 20, 2013 in New York Metropolis.
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Federal prosecutors had beforehand charged Maxwell with perjury for alleged lies she instructed throughout a 2016 civil deposition wherein they stated she lied about by no means recruiting anybody underage to therapeutic massage Epstein and by no means witnessing or taking part in any felony acts, denials she largely repeated in her interview with Blanche.
The perjury counts in opposition to her had been ultimately dropped after her conviction on the extra critical costs.
“I requested her questions that — that I consider all of us wished answered and he or she answered them,” Blanche stated. “She answered them. I did not — the purpose of the interview was not for me to stress check each single reply she gave, after all not. The purpose of the interview was to permit her to talk, which no person had carried out earlier than.”
The federal government had beforehand argued Maxwell must be afforded no credibility throughout her felony case, citing her “willingness to lie overtly below oath about her conduct,” in response to court docket data. Maxwell is presently serving a 20-year prison sentence in connection along with her conviction.
Blanche appeared to sympathize with Maxwell, saying she “had been in jail for a lot of, a few years, and he or she had provided to talk on many, many events. And she or he was by no means given that chance.”
“What I did is I gave her that chance to talk,” Blanche stated. “It was recorded. My questions had been there and whether or not — whether or not her solutions had been credible or truthful, there’s lots of info on the market about — about Mr. Epstein, about her and whether or not what she stated is totally improper or utterly proper or a bit of each, is for that is the explanation why — why we launched the transcript.”
Blanche then added, “It is actually as much as the American folks to find out what they consider that her solutions had been credible or whether or not they discovered her not credible.”
