The Justice Department released transcripts of interviews its No. 2 official conducted with Jeffrey Epstein's imprisoned former girlfriend. Officials aim to present the release as an act of transparency amid anger over an earlier refusal to release a trove of records in the sex-trafficking case. The move represents an attempt to repair political damage after unmet expectations created by officials' conspiracy theories and unfulfilled pronouncements. By making public two days of interviews, officials seek to temporarily blunt sustained anger from President Donald Trump's base while retaining other evidence that remains withheld. Maxwell recounted possibly meeting Donald Trump in 1990 through her father Robert Maxwell, who owned the New York Daily News and was friendly with Trump.
The Justice Department on Friday released transcripts of interviews its No. 2 official did with Jeffrey Epstein's imprisoned former girlfriend as the Trump administration scrambles to present itself as transparent amid a fierce backlash over an earlier refusal to disclose a trove of records from the sex-trafficking case. The disclosure represents the latest Trump administration effort to repair self-inflicted political wounds after failing to deliver on expectations that its own officials had created through conspiracy theories and bold pronouncements that never came to pass.
By making public two days worth of interviews, officials appear to be hoping to at least temporarily keep at bay sustained anger from President Donald Trump's base even as they continue to sit on other evidence they had suggested was being prepared for public release. Maxwell recalled knowing about Trump and possibly meeting him for the first time in 1990, when her newspaper magnate father, Robert Maxwell, was the owner of the New York Daily News.
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