Maggie Haberman Reveals Trump Pressed Aides About Epstein Accomplice Maxwell: ‘She Say Anything About Me?’

CNN commentator and New York Times White House correspondent Maggie Haberman told John Berman that President Donald Trump once pressed his advisers about Jeffrey Epstein accomplice Ghislane Maxwell when she was mentioned in the media.

The Trump administration’s attempt to bury the so-called “Epstein Files” is now in its third week, and the heat just keeps going up.

On the heels of a hotly anticipated profile of the Trump-Epstein relationship that included a highly suggestive note and a blizzard of disturbing resurfaced clips, CNN dropped a new bombshell Tuesday when they released new photos and videos of Trump and Epstein together in the 90s.

Trump’s past statements about Maxwell have also come under scrutiny as his administration says they are seeking to interview her.

Berman interviewed Haberman on Tuesday night’s edition of CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360, and asked her about the 2020 Oval Office meeting at which Trump asked advisers about Maxwell.

A New York Post article entitled “Ghislaine Maxwell prepared to snitch on ‘big names’ to save herself” had just dropped, and Trump was asking his top aides if they had seen it.

Haberman recounted that Trump asked did Maxwell “say anything about me?” and suggested the episode tends to contradict Trump’s current claim that he’s not “following” her case:

BERMAN: And Maggie, I was reminded that in your wonderful book “Confidence Man”, you wrote that President Trump was asking about Ghislaine Maxwell during the first term after you know she was arrested, what exactly did he want to know?

HABERMAN: Sure, so, there was this moment, as you remember, John, at a coronavirus briefing, where the President said that he would then President said that he wished her well when he was asked about her arrest, and that confused even some of his own allies, what exactly that meant. Later, a couple of days later, I believe it was in an Oval Office meeting with some advisers. He was talking about a “New York Post” item he had seen, where someone was quoted talking about whom Ghislaine Maxwell might have information about. And I think they were suggesting that she did.

The President asked advisers if they had seen that item, and then said, “She say anything about me?”

And, you know, again, this is something that, as he says, he’s not really following it. It’s a witch hunt. At some point, it was on his mind enough. It is not something he himself has talked about that much in the last several years. I want to make that clear. It’s mostly been driven by his advisers, many of whom are now top appointees and his government, but this is a case where they have unleashed, you know, a lot of questions about Jeffrey Epstein, and it’s now coming from both inside and outside of the administration.

Watch above via Anderson Cooper 360.