Overview
- Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, who once served as President Trump’s personal lawyer, spent six hours Thursday and returned Friday to question Ghislaine Maxwell at the federal courthouse in Tallahassee.
- Maxwell’s attorney, David Markus, says she answered every question honestly and in full during both days of interviews.
- The Department of Justice and FBI have officially stated they found no evidence of a secret list of Jeffrey Epstein’s clients, countering longstanding conspiracy claims.
- House Republican leaders blocked a resolution to release Epstein documents and advanced the August recess by a day to defuse pressure for greater transparency.
- President Trump has denied any involvement with Epstein, continuing his defamation lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal over an alleged letter to the financier.