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The Justice Department is weighing the release of the audio file and transcript from Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche’s interview late last month with Ghislaine Maxwell, senior administration officials told Fox News — the latest in a nearly month-long saga that has consumed the Trump administration and the attention of the public since early July.
Blanche’s interviews with Ghislaine Maxwell took place over a two-day period in Florida, where she had been serving out a 20-year prison sentence for sex trafficking.
She was subsequently transferred to a new, minimum-security women’s prison in Texas.
It is unclear how long the tape and transcripts from the interviews between Blanche and Maxwell are, but they do exist, Fox News has learned, and discussions are underway today involving whether — and when — to release them.
Anything released by the Trump administration would almost certainly involve heavily redacting any identifying information of individuals named in the transcript in order to protect victims— something Attorney General Pam Bondi has stressed in public on multiple occasions.
The Justice Department declined to comment on additional specifics involving the interview or its release.
The news comes as both the Justice Department and FBI have been under increasing pressure from Trump supporters to release more information about the Epstein investigation.
Public pressure reached a fever pitch after July 7, when the Justice Department said in an unsigned memo that it did not plan to release more information about the investigation.
In the face of mounting public protest, Tuesday’s news makes clear the degree to which the Trump administration appears to be rethinking that response.
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