During her nine hours speaking with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche last month, Ghislaine Maxwell said nothing during the interview that would be harmful to President Donald Trump, telling Blanche that Trump had never done anything in her presence that would have caused concern, according to sources familiar with what Maxwell said.
The Trump administration, meanwhile, is considering publicly releasing the transcripts from the interview, multiple sources familiar with the internal discussions told ABC News.
Maxwell’s meetings with Blanche took place for nine hours over two days.
There is also an audio recording of the interview, the sources said, but it’s not clear whether the administration plans to release the audio to accompany any public release of the transcript.
The public release of the transcripts could come as soon as this week, the sources said.
Maxwell, an associate of the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, was convicted of sex trafficking and other charges and sentenced to 20 years in prison in 2022, which she was serving at a federal prison in Tallahassee, Florida, until her recent move to a federal prison camp in Texas. She is appealing her conviction to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Following his first day of meetings with Maxwell, Blanche tweeted that “The Department of Justice will share additional information about what we learned at the appropriate time.”
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche departs his hotel for a meeting with Ghislaine Maxwell in Tallahassee, Fla., July 25, 2025.
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Maxwell’s attorney David Markus, following both days of meetings, said Maxwell was asked about “one hundred different people,” and said “she didn’t hold anything back.”
Markus, however, declined to be specific about who Maxwell was asked about or whether she provided information about others who committed crimes against victims.
Thus far, the administration has not revealed any details from what Maxwell said.
CNN first reported the administration was considering releasing the transcripts.
In an interview with Newsmax last week when asked when Americans could hear about the contents of the meeting, Trump said: “I don’t know, because I haven’t spoken about it, but he’s a very talented guy, Todd Blanche, and a very straight shooter, and I think he probably wanted to know, you know, just to get a feeling of it, because we’d like to release everything, but we don’t want people to get hurt that shouldn’t be hurt. And I would assume that was why he was there. I want to release everything. I just don’t want people to get hurt.”
The DOJ did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
