Trump Doubled Down Defending Ghislaine Maxwell in 2020 Interview: ‘I’m Not Looking for Anything Bad for Her’

President Donald Trump's administration has had an astonishingly tumultuous week in the aftermath of his Department of Justice issuing a memo denying disgraced financier and convicted sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein had maintained a client list. The memo sparked both intense rage from Trump's MAGA base and reinvigorated his critics, with many pointing to the president's comments from July 2020 about Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein's accomplice and former girlfriend, saying "I wish her well" -- but it's an interview a few weeks later that was far more shocking.