BBC News, New York
The US Attorney General said on Friday that he will resume questions about Ghislaine Maxwell, a long -time colleague of Jeffrey Epstein.
US officials from US President Donald Trump are increasingly pressure to disclose files related to Epstein, a pediatric financing, who was convicted late after Trump was produced at the campaign trail last year.
Interest recently returned to the 63 -year -old Maxwell, and Epstein helped to abuse young girls.
In his latest opinion, Trump suggested that the new focus on Epstein is the result of the opposition Democratic Party’s efforts to interfere with his achievements.
The meeting with Maxwell’s US deputy chief TODD Blanche was held in Tallahassee, Florida, where he was sentenced to 20 years of prostitution.
Her lawyer David Markus said he would not mention the contents of the discussion in the BBC’s US partner CBS news, but said, “There was a lot of questions and went all day.”
“She answered all of them,” he said. “She didn’t say I would not answer and never refused.”
Markus told reporters that Blanche asked Maxwell, “thank you.” “The first thing the government did was a good day.”
Blanche wrote in the short article of X: “Today I met Ghislaine Maxwell and will continue to interview with her tomorrow. The Ministry of Justice will share additional information about what you have learned at the right time.”
BLANCHE told Maxwell early this week that Epstein plans to talk about information about others who have been helped by sexual abusive girls.
Chuck Schumer, a Democratic Party and a fierce Trump critic, raised the problem that Trump had interviewed Maxwell before the potential disclosure testimony by changing Trump, a former personal lawyer, Blanche.
“The conflict of understanding is brilliant. Corruption increases,” he said.
Trump accused the new focus of Epstein in late Thursday that the new focus on Epstein was “fraud” and “Democratic Party”, and Schumeran was trying to “distract and dwell” in the first six months of the second semester in the office.
Trump asked if he would consider Maxwell Clemency on Friday. Trump could do that, but he said, “I didn’t think.”
“I can’t talk about it now. … very sensitive,” he asked again.
Recently, the phone has been strengthened to disclose files related to the Epstein problem, including Trump’s loyalty supporters, including members of the US public and the Ministry of Justice.
Wednesday, Wednesday, the Wall Street Journal told Trump that he had appeared in the Justice Department document related to Epstein during the briefing in May.
According to the president, Trump and Epstein were former friends. They fell in the early 2000s.
The White House resigned behind, dismissing the WSJ story as “fake news”.
But a White House official told Reuters that he did not deny Trump’s name in the document.
The official pointed out an Epstein file released a few months ago by the Ministry of Justice, including Trump.
Nominated in the document is not evidence of criminal acts, and Trump has never made a mistake in the Epstein case.
Last year, in the campaign for the presidential position, Trump promised to disclose such files for well -connected sex offenders.
However, his supporters were frustrated by the administration’s problem with the executive, including the failure to deliver the “List of Customer” with rumors of Epstein. Earlier this month, the Ministry of Justice and the FBI said there was no such a list.
Epstein died in New York Prison in 2019 and is waiting for trials for prostitution in accordance with the initial guilty ruling requesting prostitution from minors. His death was judged by suicide.
In the next few years, the theory of conspiracy the nature of his crime and his death itself spread.
On Wednesday, the US House of Representatives voted to the Ministry of Justice Summoning Center for this file, which must be signed by the commission president.
The Republican Party of the House of Representatives also summoned Maxwell to remotely testify that Maxwell in prison on August 11.
The House of Representatives Mike Johnson warned that Maxwell, who helped Epstein’s bridegroom and sexual abuse girls for many years, could not provide accurate testimony.
Markus, Maxwell’s lawyer, said before the BBC, “there was no basis.” If she decided to testify rather than raising the right to be silent, she said, “She will always testify as he always said.
Last week, the Ministry of Justice requested the federal judge to announce the federal jury testimony related to the Florida investigation of Florida in 2006, but on Wednesday, the Federal Judge did not disclose the document.
