What Trump's justice official revealed to 'sting' reporter

TEEN sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell was moved to a cushy jail "to keep her mouth shut", a top Donald Trump official has revealed.

- BY CHRISTOPHER BUCKTIN US Editor

The disgraced socialite was transferred last month from a tough Florida lockup to Camp Bryan in Texas, America's most relaxed women's jail.

The move came days after Maxwell, serving 20 years for trafficking teenage girls to billionaire paedophile Jeffrey Epstein, was interviewed by Trump's deputy attorney general, Todd Blanche.

Now Joseph Schnitt, a Department of Justice acting deputy chief, has given the alleged reason after bragging about Maxwell's move during a date.

Unaware his companion worked for a US media group, he told her the decision broke prisons policy because Maxwell was a convicted sex offender.