The publication of the interview comes as Trump has faced criticism from his conservative base of supporters and congressional Democrats over the Justice Department’s decision not to release the files from its Epstein investigation, in what has become one of the biggest political liabilities of his second White House term.

But in July, the Justice Department said it would not be releasing any further records from the case after concluding there was “no incriminating client list” nor was there any evidence that Epstein had blackmailed prominent people.

Trump was ‘always very cordial’, Maxwell tells DOJ

A week after the interview, Maxwell was moved from a low-security prison facility in Florida to a less-restrictive prison camp in Texas. She is serving a 20-year prison sentence for recruiting underage girls for Epstein to abuse during encounters that began as massages and then escalated into unwanted sexual activity.