GLENN THRUSH, CHRIS CAMERON, ALAN FEUER, MAGGIE HABERMAN AND SHARON LAFRANIERE

New York Times

WASHINGTON — Ghislaine Maxwell, a longtime confidant of disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, told a top administration official she never saw President Trump engage in improper or illegal acts during his long friendship with Epstein, according to transcripts released late Friday.

The transcripts and audio, covering two days of interviews in late July between Maxwell and Todd Blanche, a former Trump defense lawyer tapped to the No. 2 post at the Justice Department, are likely to raise as many questions as they answer. Time and again she claimed not to have witnessed events or punted when asked to provide details of known incidents.

Maxwell has been seeking to overturn or reduce her 20-year sent

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