Ghislaine Maxwell told the Justice Department that there was no blackmail scheme involving Jeffrey Epstein and denied that she ever saw President Donald Trump in “any inappropriate setting,” according to a transcript of her highly unusual two-day interview with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche.

Maxwell, Epstein’s former girlfriend who is serving a 20-year prison sentence for her role in Epstein’s sex trafficking operation, told Blanche, Trump’s former personal lawyer, that the president was cordial and a “gentleman in all respects” in her interactions with him.

Maxwell, who asked the Supreme Court to review her conviction, told Blanche that she “never” saw Trump in any compromising situation.

“I don’t think they were close friends or I certainly never witnessed the President in any

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