General Discussion

Which has been estimated, but not disclosed, to be in the low-single-digit millions?

IOW, what if Trump lawyers contacted Maxwell lawyers and said "if she will go on record and exonerate Trump completely from wrongdoing, we know Maxwell well, tell her and her lawyers we will make sure she settles with you, before court, for $5M".

I'd add that, in fact, maybe their "hours long" time they were both (per Epstein) at Epstein's house was nothing sexual, maybe an actual massage, or maybe they didn't interact at all? This is why she'd be like "okay, whatever", if that gets me $5M and Maxwell settles, which looks bad for Maxwell?

At that point, 2015, Trump was running, or was about to. She had publicly said in the past that she'd seen Trump with young girls and Epstein, so she's already "a threat" to his candidacy. Then, out of the freaking blue, Maxwells lawyers ask her all these questions about Trump specifically, in a trial that is about Maxwell, not Trump, and she answers EXACTLY how Trump would want her to.

Then, even afterward, in interviews, she re-iterates the idea that she had nothing on Trump, things she said before were taken out of context, or she was reporting what other's told her, not what she saw, etc. Like she went OUT of her way to exonerate Trump. Including, apparently, even lying that she'd ever seen him at Epstein's place (assuming we can trust Epstein's recollection regarding something that happened 9 years earlier).

And then PERHAPS? That $5M? What if that actually came from Trump?