President Donald Trump insisted that he was not aware of the Department of Justice's effort to speak to Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell.
Amid the fallout from the Trump administration's decision not to release additional Epstein files, the president was asked on Tuesday if he urged Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche to meet with Maxwell, who is serving a 20-year sentence for sex offenses.
"I don't know anything about it. They're going to what? Meet her?" Trump asked.
"Your Deputy Attorney General has reached out to Ghislaine Maxwell's attorney asking for a new interview," the reporter explained.
"Yeah, I don't know about it, but I think it's something that would be... sounds appropriate to do, yeah," Trump opined.
"Do you have any concern that your Deputy Attorney General is your former attorney who would be conducting the interview?" the reporter pressed.
"No, I have no concern," Trump insisted. "He's very — he's a very talented person. He's very smart. I didn't know that they were going to do it. I don't really follow that too much."
The president then attempted to change the subject to allegations against former President Barack Obama.
"It's sort of a witch hunt — just a continuation of the witch hunt," Trump remarked. The witch hunt that you should be talking about is they caught President Obama absolutely cold — Tulsi Gabbard. What they did to this country in 2016 — starting in 2016, but going up — all the way going up to 2020 in the election to rig the election, and they got caught, and there should be very severe consequences for that."
"Obama's been caught directly. So people say, 'Oh, you know, a group.' It's not a group. It's Obama."
