Ghislaine Maxwell is currently serving a 20-year prison sentence - US Department of Justice/PA

Ghislaine Maxwell answered “every question” she was asked by Trump administration officials who quizzed her about Jeffrey Epstein, her lawyer said.

“Ms Maxwell answered every single question,” her attorney David Oscar Markus told reporters outside the federal courthouse in Tallahassee.

“She never stopped, she never invoked a privilege, she never declined to answer. She answered all the questions truthfully, honestly and to the best of her ability.”

Maxwell, who is currently serving a 20-year prison sentence for her role in helping Epstein recruit and abuse underage girls, is the only person to have ever been convicted in connection with his crimes.

“If Ghislaine Maxwell has information about anyone who has committed crimes against victims, the FBI and the [Department of Justice (DoJ)] will hear what she has to say,” Mr Blanche said before the visit.

The president, earlier this week, suggested he was happy for Mr Blanche to speak to Maxwell, saying it “sounds appropriate to do it”.

Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. Maxwell helped Epstein recruit and abuse underage girls - AFP

Ahead of the meeting, Maxwell was assembling “new evidence” to present to the Trump administration, her brother told the New York Post. She is expected to try and broker a deal with the justice department to reduce her prison sentence.

Chaos erupted in the administration earlier this month when the DoJ and FBI concluded that Epstein did not have a “client list”, and killed himself in a Manhattan jail in 2019.

The move incited a huge backlash among members of Mr Trump’s Maga base, who have long called for transparency over the case.

A widely-believed conspiracy theory among his supporters purports that the deep state is protecting a circle of elites, whom Epstein trafficked underage girls to, by trying to bury the story.

The “deep state” refers to an accretion of laws, organisations and incentives at the heart of the US government, often referred to by Mr Trump as scuppering his attempts to change the status quo during his first term.

The FBI compiled more than 300 gigabytes of Epstein-related material and confiscated digital and documentary evidence from the paedophile financier’s properties in the US Virgin Islands and New York in 2019, comprising the so-called “Epstein files”.

It was reported on Wednesday that Mr Trump’s name, as well as several other of Epstein’s associates, are mentioned several times in the tranche of documents.

Mr Trump’s name allegedly appearing within the files does not imply any criminality or wrongdoing.

Donald and Melania Trump with Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell - Davidoff Studios Photography/ARCHIVE PHOTOS

The president was informed of his appearance within the files by Attorney General Pam Bondi months before her department announced that it would not be releasing any of the material, according to The Wall Street Journal (WSJ).

Mr Trump is said to have privately told people he fears being accused of “funny business” because of his former friendship with the financier.

“They’re going to accuse me of some funny business,” he said recently in the Oval Office, a Republican close to the White House told Politico.

“They’re going to f— me anyways,” he added

On Wednesday, Republicans on the House oversight committee voted with Democrats to approve a motion to compel the Justice Department to release records related to Epstein.

The subpoena would request the redaction of names of victims and personally identifying information to be reviewed internally by the committee.

It followed a similar vote in which Maxwell was subpoenaed to testify before Congress about her links to Epstein.

‘Can you trust what she’ll say?’

However, House Speaker Mike Johnson on Wednesday played down the significance of Maxwell’s testimony, slated for August 11, asking reporters: “Can you trust what she’s going to say?”

On Wednesday, he shut down Congress a day early to push back a vote that could have forced the release of more files until after the August recess, claiming he refused to play Democrats’ “political games”.

It came just a week after Mr Johnson became one of the most senior Republicans to call on the president to publish “everything” related to the paedophile financier.

A Republican congressional aide told The Telegraph that they were facing a barrage of calls from constituents who were outraged by the administration’s apparent flip-flopping.

Mr Johnson has also been pressed by Senator John Thune, the Senate majority leader, to get a handle on dissent over the Epstein case among GOP members.

“In some fashion, in some way, he’s going to have to handle it and deal with it,” Mr Thune told Politico.

White House ‘sworn to silence’

In an attempt to prevent any further messaging misalignments within the party, the White House has allegedly sworn everyone to silence on the Epstein case.

“The communications office has to be directly involved in every aspect of this,” a senior administration official told NBC. “Every ‘i’ must be dotted, and every ‘t’ must be crossed through us.”

Democrats have pounced on the opportunity to stoke divisions with the Republican Party by spearheading congressional petitions for transparency over the files.

On Wednesday, California Senator Adam Schiff called on Ms Bondi and Kash Patel, the FBI director, to testify before Congress, following the WSJ’s report that they had informed Mr Trump he was named in the files.

Responding to the allegations, Steven Cheung, the White House communications director, told The Telegraph: “The fact is that the president kicked him [Epstein] out of his club for being a creep.

“This is nothing more than a continuation of the fake news stories concocted by the Democrats and the liberal media, just like the Obama Russiagate scandal, which President Trump was right about.”

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