Ghislaine Maxwell’s brother ‘grateful’ for ‘positive’ Trump statement about her
Ian Maxwell, the brother of Ghislaine Maxwell, convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s charged co-conspirator, said he was “grateful” for the “positive” statement President Trump made about his sister in 2020.
He was asked on “Piers Morgan Uncensored” if Ghislaine Maxwell, who was arrested on sex trafficking charges in 2020 and eventually convicted and sentenced to 20 years in prison, “pulled the wool over your eyes” related to her involvement in Epstein’s alleged crimes.
“No, I believe my sister. I’ve known her 60 years, Piers. You know, I’m not going to suddenly say she started pulling the wool. I don’t think so,” he told host Piers Morgan on Tuesday. “I don’t believe so. Not for a second.”
Ian Maxwell also said Trump showed “humanity” after offering the “positive” statement about his sister.
“And I don’t think that anyone else showed the slightest piece of humanity. Not anybody at that time, and yet he did. He didn’t need to. He’s the president of the United States, the most powerful man in the world,” Maxwell said Tuesday. “He could’ve just sloughed it off. He didn’t. He made a positive statement. I am very grateful to that, and I know Ghislaine was too.”
Trump was asked during a July 2020 press briefing about whether the embattled socialite, awaiting trial at the time, was “going to turn in powerful men.”
“I haven’t really been following it too much. I just wish her well, frankly. I’ve met her numerous times over the years, especially since I lived in Palm Beach. And I guess they lived in Palm Beach. But I wish her well,” Trump said at the time.
The Trump administration is working to tamp down the controversy around the Epstein case, particularly after the FBI and the Justice Department (DOJ) said in a joint, unsigned memo this month that the disgraced financier did not keep a “client list” and confirming he died by suicide in his jail cell in 2019.
The DOJ, after being ordered by Trump, asked a federal court last week to unseal grand jury testimony from prosecutions of both Epstein and Maxwell. Attorney General Pam Bondi said Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche “communicated” with Maxwell’s attorney to figure out if she would be willing to talk to DOJ prosecutors.
A House Oversight and Government Reform subcommittee also moved to subpoena Maxwell on Tuesday as pressure for more transparency from the Trump administration intensifies.