WASHINGTON − The Justice Department on Aug. 22 released transcripts of interviews that Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche conducted last month with disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein's imprisoned former girlfriend and associate, Ghislaine Maxwell , in which she absolved President Donald Trump of any wrongdoing.

"The President was never inappropriate with anybody," Maxwell says at one point in the two days of marathon interviews on July 24 and 25. "In the times that I was with him, he was a gentleman in all respects."

The release of the redacted documents was accompanied by digital audio files of the interviews conducted by Blanche − the DOJ's No. 2 official and Trump's former personal defense lawyer − with Maxwell at a site near the Florida prison where she was serving 20 ye

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