Ghislaine Maxwell is expected to unveil ‘new evidence’ during her jailhouse meeting with the Justice Department and will attempt to make a deal with government officials, Jeffrey Epstein’s former lawyer claimed.
The revelation came as resurfaced footage showed Epstein responding to questions about Donald Trump and underage girls.
The US President was also informed months ago by Pam Bondi that his name appears ‘multiple times’ in the Jeffrey Epstein files, according to a new report.
Maxwell will personally meet with a top Justice Department official at a federal prison in Florida where she is serving a 20-year sentence for helping Epstein traffic young women.
Her brother Ian told The New York Post on Wednesday that she will be providing ‘new evidence’ regarding Epstein.
‘She will be putting before that court material new evidence that was not available to the defense at her 2021 trial, which would have had a significant impact on its outcome,’ Ian Maxwell said.
Ghislaine Maxwell, 63, did not testify in her defense at her 2021 trial which saw her convicted in over her role in a scheme to sexual exploit and abuse multiple minor girls with Epstein over the course of a decade.
But former Epstein lawyer Alan Dershowitz claimed that Maxwell will try to make a deal with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche when he visits her in lockup.
‘She’s going to make a deal… That’s the way things are done. They make deals with the Mafia, so I’m certain they are going to try to make a deal with her,’ he told the New York Post.
Her discussions with the White House came as a torrent of information on the Epstein saga continued to get blasted across traditional outlets and social media.
Liberal podcasters MeidasTouch posted video Wednesday of a 2010 deposition in which Epstein was asked about Trump but is largely evasive.
‘Have you ever had a personal relationship with Donald Trump?’ Epstein is asked by a lawyer representing an underaged victim.
‘What do you mean by ‘personal relationship,’ sir?’ he replies.
‘Have you socialized with him?’ the questioner continues.
‘Yes, sir,’ he admits.
‘Have you ever socialized with Donald Trump in the presence of females under the age of 18?’ the lawyer persists.
‘Though I’d like to answer that question, at least today I’m going to have to assert my Fifth, Sixth, and 14th Amendment rights, sir,’ he replies.
The Fifth Amendment protects individuals from being forced to testify against themselves in a criminal case, while the Sixth and 14th involve other individual protections under the law.
Epstein invoked the fifth on all questions he was asked during the deposition. However his response to the Trump questions appeared unique.
DailyMail.com has reached out to the White House for comment.
The saga of the billionaire pedophile has plagued the Trump administration since the botched handling of the Epstein files – which the president now claims is a Democrat-led hoax.
Attorney General Pam Bondi is facing calls to testify before Congress after The Wall Street Journal’s reported that she told Trump that his name appeared in the FBI files of the sex-trafficking investigation.
Ghislaine Maxwell, 63, is the only person behind bars despite the fact that pedophile Jeffrey Epstein allegedly controlled a web of underage girls.
Additionally, Epstein’s victims alleged they were passed around as sex toys to his wealthy friends and billionaire business associates who regularly visited his homes including his private island, Little Saint James.
A source said: ‘Despite the rumors, Ghislaine was never offered any kind of plea deal. She would be more than happy to sit before Congress and tell her story.
‘No-one from the government has ever asked her to share what she knows. She remains the only person to be jailed in connection to Epstein and she would welcome the chance to tell the American public the truth.’
What that ‘truth’ is remains to be seen. Maxwell was convicted in 2022 over her role in a scheme to sexual exploit and abuse multiple minor girls with Epstein over the course of a decade.
Maxwell argues she should have been protected from prosecution as part of a Non Prosecution Agreement made by Epstein – her former lover and boss – in 2007 when he agreed to plead guilty to two minor charges of prostitution in a ‘sweetheart deal’ which saw him spend little time behind bars.
Earlier this week, Ghislaine’s brother Ian Maxwell revealed her sister’s frame of mind in the wake of the botched release of the files.
Ian Maxwell communicates regularly with her sister in jail on the phone and told The Times she fears for her safety.
‘Prisons are very dangerous places and we know from Ghislaine that there are serious staff shortages and more dangerous higher-risk-category prisoners now being admitted to … Tallahassee,’ said Maxwell.
‘For sure she remains at great, if not greater, risk and has expressed her real concerns about this to me.’
He also said his older sister believes that Epstein may have been murdered, contradicting the DOJ and FBI’s belief in the official theory that he committed suicide.
‘There were certainly a number of convicted murderers on the wing in [Metropolitan Correctional Center] New York where Epstein died,’ Maxwell said.
‘The contemporaneous investigation of Epstein’s death was cut short, cursory and frankly shoddy, certainly as regards the duty guards’ story the night he died. At least one distinguished, independent forensic pathologist concurred with the Epstein family-appointed pathologist that homicide was more likely than suicide,’ he added.
He added that the pathologist from the New York Medical Examiner’s office never examined the body.
‘I think despite the DOJ memo concluding that Epstein died by suicide, there must remain serious doubts and the jury remains out about that.’
Ian Maxwell’s take was that President Trump and others would be ‘pleased’ by the suicide verdict.
‘The principal casualties here are truth and justice and my sister’s freedom,’ he said.
‘That’s the reality and it should make all right-thinking people seethe with anger. We remain ever hopeful that the truth of the ‘hoax’, as President Trump now refers to it, comes out.’
Ian Maxwell also ‘welcomes total discourse’ and the complete public release of the FBI files.
The controversy continues to rage over the Department of Justice’s statement that there is no Epstein ‘client list’ and the release of videos from inside New York’s Metropolitan Correctional Center which the DOJ says proves he committed suicide in 2019 while being held in jail on sex trafficking charges.
Critics have pointed to the fact that there is a crucial minute missing from the jail house video that also does not show the door or, indeed, the inside of Epstein’s jail cell.
The scandal – and alleged ‘cover up’ – has prompted a rebellion amongst President Trump’s loyal MAGA base. Some even believe Bondi should be fired after promising to release all files relating to Epstein and his high-profile male friends only to apparently renege on that promise.
On Wednesday, it was revealed that Bondi told Trump his name was among many high-profile figures mentioned in the files, which the Justice Department this month said it would not be releasing despite a clamor from online sleuths, conspiracy theorists and members of Trump’s base.
Trump´s personal ties to Epstein are well-established and his name is already known to have been included in records related to the wealthy financier, who killed himself in jail in 2019 as he awaited trial on sex trafficking charges.
The Justice Department declined to comment on the report but issued a joint statement from Bondi and Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche saying that investigators had reviewed the records and ‘nothing in the files warranted further investigation or prosecution.’
‘As par of our routine briefing, we made the president aware of the findings,’ the statement said.
The mere inclusion of a person’s name in Epstein’s files does not imply wrongdoing and he was known to have been associated with multiple prominent figures, including Trump.
Over the years, thousands of pages of records have been released through lawsuits, Epstein´s criminal dockets, public disclosures and Freedom of Information Act requests.
They include a 2016 deposition in which an accuser recounted she spent several hours with Epstein at Trump´s Atlantic City casino but didn´t say if she met Trump and did not accuse him of any wrongdoing.
Trump has also said he once thought Epstein was a ‘terrific guy’ but they later had a falling-out.
White House spokesman Steven Cheung on Wednesday said the reports were ‘nothing more than a continuation of the fake news stories concocted by the Democrats and the liberal media.’
