Politico reports:

President Trump’s close allies are welcoming convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell telling top Justice Department officials she never witnessed him “in any inappropriate setting” with young girls in his history of dealings with Jeffrey Epstein.

MAGA loyalists quickly began circulating passages of Maxwell’s interview transcript released by DOJ on Friday in which Epstein’s former girlfriend says she never witnessed the president committing any wrongdoing.

The DOJ’s announcement earlier this year that it would not release files connected to the Epstein investigation sparked a backlash among Trump supporters who had hoped Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel would honor promises to make the investigation records public.

Democrats sought to capitalize on the schism in Trump’s base, repeatedly pressing Congress and the Trump administration to release the files while insinuating that the president was covering up his ties to Epstein.

In an interviewing following the release of the transcripts, Laura Loomer, the activist and MAGA influencer, said she believes Maxwell’s testimony proves that Trump “has always been an honorable person” and the release of the transcript will ease any division among his supporters.

“I’m hoping that, you know, these transcripts will quell a lot of the nasty, salacious lies and rumors that were spread by bad actors online who are trying to use Pam Blondie’s shortcomings as a way to attack President Trump,” she told POLITICO, using a derisive nickname for Bondi.

Other MAGA influencers took to social media to argue Maxwell’s testimony clears Trump’s name. Chaya Raichik, a conservative influencer who goes by “Libs of TikTok” on social media, said that “liberals are going to explode” in a post sharing the section of the Maxwell transcript referencing Trump. [Continue reading…]