Congress receives further documents
US Ministry of Justice gives documents from Epstein confidants
Updated on 23.08.2025 – 8:56 a.m.Reading time: 2 min.
Protocols of talks with the Epstein confidante Ghislaine Maxwell have now become public. She also comments about Donald Trump.
The US Ministry of Justice has published protocols and records of interrogations with Ghislaine Maxwell, the ex-partner of the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The documents, which extend several hundred pages, document discussions with her under the direction of the deputy general prosecutor’s Attorney Todd Blanche from the end of July. According to her statements, US President Donald Trump “never behaved in any way in any way inappropriately”.
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At the end of July, the Attorney General had once again asked Maxwell about Epstein and announced at the time that the Ministry of Justice would announce further information on the findings in due course. Maxwell was sentenced to 20 years in prison in New York in 2022. She had played a central role in building a ring for the sexual abuse of girls. Since then she has been in prison. Epstein committed suicide in his prison cell in his prison cell in 2019 at the age of 66.
The authority also handed over a number of other documents in connection with the Epstein case on Friday afternoon. However, these documents – transmitted as part of a summons that was issued at the beginning of the month by the Committee on Supervision and Government Reform of the House of Representatives – are probably only part of what is available to the Ministry. It is currently unclear what information the MPs actually have. It is expected that the documents are heavily blackened.
According to the US newspaper “The Hill”, the supervisory committee of the congress is now planning to check the materials, with both Democrats and Republicans have access. Although the decision on publication is usually at the majority party – in this case the Republicans -, each party could also publish the documents on its own.
In parts of the US company, Epstein’s death caused wild speculation because he had the best contacts in the American high society. Prominent and billionaires went in and out of him-US President Trump also spent time with Epstein. In the election campaign, Trump had promised to open the Epstein files. Because he has not yet done this, the pressure on him grows – also from his own camp. With the publication of the interrogation protocols, the US government now seems to try to reduce the pressure.
