Thread by @RichardHanania

Ghislaine Maxwell transcripts released! See here for thread on the most interesting parts. 1/n

Ghislaine is asked whether Epstein ever received money from any intelligence agency, including Mossad. She replies that not as far as she knows and she would be surprised if he did.

Epstein started taking testosterone in the late 1990s. But he was not on any other substances.

Epstein would get bored with masseuses and always wanted to find new ones. She says she never thought anyone giving massages was under 18.

She disputes claims that she recruited one of Epstein’s accusers while at Mar-a-Lago, but concedes she did sometimes meet spa workers and might have casually asked if they wanted to work, without remembering specifics.

Maxwell on Epstein's relationship with Trump: "I don't know how they met, and I don't know how they became friends. I certainly saw them together and I remember the few times I observed them together, but they were friendly. I mean, they seemed friendly."

Maxwell: "I actually never saw the President in any type of massage setting. I never witnessed the President in any inappropriate setting in any way. The President was never inappropriate with anybody. In the times that I was with him, he was a gentleman in all respects."

Now you know why she got transferred to a lower security prison.

Bill Clinton also never got a massage.

She is exasperated with how stupid this all is. "So that narrative that was created and then built upon, and it just mushroomed into what – basically this is like a Salem witch trial. People have gone and lost their minds for this thing."

Ghislaine on Epstein: "He's not some – they've made him into this – he's not that interesting. He's a disgusting guy who did terrible things to young kids.

Gislaine: "A man wants sexual favors, he will find that. They didn't have to come to Epstein for that."

She doesn't know anything about Epstein's relationship with Ehud Barak.

"I never, at any time, set Andrew up to have relations with her or any other human being ever."

Ghislaine says that Epstein told her he had issues having sex. But she thinks he was lying, because he masturbated and liked to get blowjobs.

Ghislaine said that she never told any woman how to pleasure Epstein. If he needed someone to know, "he clearly was able to explain himself."

Ghislaine denies she was paid $30 million to recruit girls for Epstein.

In sum, this whole thing is very dumb. The entire Epstein story is a stupid moral panic with nothing behind it. Leftist MeToo hysteria combined with rightist pedo hysteria. Watch @mtracey and I discuss.

If you fell for this, rethink everything. richardhanania.com/p/the-inverted…