Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche confirmed on Thursday that he was talking with convicted sex predator Ghislaine Maxwell about what she knows regarding Jeffrey Epstein.

That interview continued on Friday, and apparently Maxwell got some legal protection to chat with Blanche, according to her lawyer.

Ghislaine Maxwell, who sources told ABC News initiated the meetings with the Department of Justice, answered questions for about nine hours over two days after being granted a limited form of immunity, the sources said.

The immunity allowed Maxwell to freely answer Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche’s questions without fear that her responses could later be used against her, the sources said.

The so-called proffer immunity is commonly granted to individuals prosecutors are seeking to make cooperators in a criminal case. Maxwell has already been tried, convicted and sentenced for sex trafficking underage girls.

The second meeting between Maxwell and Blanche lasted for about three hours.

Maxwell’s attorney, David Markus, told ABC News afterward, “There have been no asks and no promises.”

Markus said Maxwell was asked about “maybe 100 different people” during her interview with the deputy attorney general. He said she answered every question.

“She didn’t hold anything back,” Markus said.

He declined to be specific about who Maxwell was asked about or whether she provided information about others who might have allegedly committed crimes against victims, as Blanche said he was seeking.

“We haven’t asked for anything. This is not a situation where we are asking for anything in return for testimony or anything like that,” Markus added on Friday. “Of course, everybody knows Ms. Maxwell would welcome any relief.”

Now, this doesn’t mean that Maxwell offered up names. It means that Deputy AG Blanche asked her about those names, and she responded. Many news reports – and social media accounts – are getting the story wrong. The limited immunity was designed to get her to talk insofar as answering questions, but it wouldn’t be enough to get her to volunteer new information.

David Oscar Markus told reporters that his client, currently serving a 20-year sentence after being convicted in Manhattan of federal sex trafficking and conspiracy charges in December 2021, was “asked about every possible thing you could imagine – everything.”

“This was the first opportunity she’s ever been given to answer questions about what happened,” Markus added. “The truth will come out about what happened with Mr. Epstein and she’s the person who’s answering those questions.”

Blanche had “every single question” answered during the sitdown, Maxwell’s attorney also said, with the British-born convict declining to plead the Fifth Amendment.

“If she lies they could charge her with lying,” Markus noted.

“They did charge her with lying,” a reporter challenged him, referring to two perjury counts that Markus noted were dropped by the feds after her conviction.

Even if Maxwell is talking, all she might be saying is “no, not that person” when Blanche gave her names. Who knows? She could actually be in the process of clearing people, not accusing them. The limited immunity will only cover so much, and her appeal to the Supreme Court is in regards to jurisdiction, not on her actual guilt or innocence. If she was looking to trade names for reducing her sentence, this limited immunity deal likely didn’t cover any of that. And we should all remember that Ghislaine Maxwell is a CONVICTED SEX OFFENDER who groomed and abused young girls.

Absurd. Maxwell is the one other person we know for sure participated in trafficking and assaulting underage girls. Why let her get away with it?

In addition, she has been caught lying repeatedly (inc under oath) so she’s the least reliable source imaginable for anything. https://t.co/nm1wgJNmyr

— AG (@AGHamilton29) July 25, 2025

Her lawyer is clearly holding out hope that President Trump may be persuaded to pardon Maxwell. Not so fast, said Trump, noting that he does have the power to do it, but hasn’t considered it.

Asked whether he would pardon Maxwell, with whom Trump socialized along with Epstein in the 1990s and early 2000s, Trump said first that he “can’t talk about pardons” and then that “it’s something I haven’t thought about.”

The president said he wasn’t worried that Blanche could be misled by Maxwell in a gambit to win her freedom, calling Blanche, his own former personal attorney, a “professional lawyer who’s been through things like this before.”

Trump also pointed out that if it’s a list people want, then he has some opinions.

“You should focus on [Bill] Clinton. You should focus on the president of Harvard, the former president of Harvard [Larry Summers], you should focus on some of the hedge fund guys. I’ll give you a list,” the president said as he departed the White House for a trip to Scotland.

“These guys lived with Jeffrey Epstein, I sure as hell didn’t.”

“You ought to be speaking about Bill Clinton, who went to [Epstein’s private isle in the US Virgin Islands] 28 times. I never went to the island,” the president scolded the White House press corps.

People have raised their expectations far too high when it comes to what they think Ghislaine Maxwell is willing to give up before she knows if the Supreme Court will take her case. If SCOTUS tells her that her conviction stands, then she may start singing in exchange for reducing her sentence. But she’s clearly trying to churn up interest in herself, and in this case, long enough to see if she gets her conviction tossed due to the DOJ’s previous agreement with Epstein. If the conviction is voided, then there is no way she gives up names who could take her down again. She is evil, she does not deserve to walk free before her sentence is up, and the number of victims that she had a hand in grooming and abusing should make anyone think twice about trusting her.

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