Maxwell, who was convicted for her part in Epstein’s crimes of child sex trafficking and for grooming girls to be sexually abused, was interviewed by Blanche in the midst of this media storm in late July.

Blanche's meeting with Maxwell in late July came amid ongoing fury at Trump's DOJ and FBI releasing a memo in early July, effectively closing the Jeffrey Epstein case

The Department of Justice (DOJ) on Friday released a transcript and audio files of Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche’s interview with Ghislaine Maxwell, a former associate of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.