US President Donald Trump listens in Washington, DC on July 9, 2025 during a multilateral lunch with African leaders at the White House state dining room.
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chairman Donald TrumpPublicly facing increasing pressure to publicly release the files of the Department of Justice Jeffrey EpsteinThursday night said that he had asked Attorney General Palm Bondi To ignore the grand jury testimony criminal prosecution Notorious Podophile.
Bondi replied Social media postWriting, “President Trump – We are ready to move the court tomorrow to ignore the grand jury tape.”
Trump’s announcement came a few hours later The Wall Street Journal Told that a “Bawdi” letter with Trump’s signature was included in an album of letters received for his 50th birthday in 2003.
The letter was between those documents “investigated by” Justice Department The newspaper reported that the authorities investigated Epstein “and their guilty buyers, Ghislen Maxwell,” year ago, “the newspaper.
Trump wrote, “Based on the ridiculous amount of publicity given to Jeffrey Epstein, I have asked Attorney General Palm Bondi to produce any and all relevant grand jury testimony, under the court approval,” Trump has written. Truth social post.
“This scam, issued by Democrats, should just be finished, now!” The President said.
From the left, Donald Trump and his girlfriend (and future wife), former model Melania Kannus, Financer (and future guilty sexual criminal) Jeffrey Epstein, and British Sochelight Gholine Maxwell pozed together at Mar-e-Lo Club in Florida on February 12, 2000.
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It is not clear that the Department of Justice will be able to convince a federal judge in New York, where Epstein was examined, convicted in 2019 on charges of child sex trafficking.
Grand jury tape, as a rule, is kept secret under the federal criminal procedure rules, which provide limited, narrow exceptions.
It is also not clear that if tapes are issued that they will satisfy critics of Bondi’s recent decision, who do not release any more documents or evidence related to Epstein. Tape will represent a part of the evidence gathered by the prosecutors and the FBI.
“Good effort @agpambondi,” rape. Daniel Goldman, DN.Y., wrote in a tweet on Thursday night.
“What about video, photograph and other recording? What about FBI 302 (Witness Interview)? What about texts and emails?” Goldman wrote. “This is the place where there will be evidence about Trump and others. The Grand Jury testimony will only belong to Epstein and Maxwell.”
Sen Mike Lee, R-Yuta, Bondi’s declaration in a tweet called “Vishal,”, but also added, “I hope and hopefully it will be the first of many stages to tell the public what happened.”
Epstein’s case has led to the principles of conspiracy between the Maga base of the supporters of Trump.
Those supporters officially questioned that Epstein killed himself while detention in Manhattan Jail in August 2019, a month after being arrested in the allegations filed in the southern district court of New York.
He has also said that there is a “client list” made by Epstein to release what he believes, possibly to use rich and powerful people in his orbit to blackmail. And he has argued that other people should be brought for justice for their crimes.
Trump was a friend of Eptin for years, before the two fell out, and the secret money manager also counted people in his social class including President Bill Clinton and Prince Andrew of Britain.
Trump has convicted Democrat For demands to release Epstein files. But the increasing number of Republicans including his former vice -president, Mike Pence and GOP members of Congress has said that Bondi should issue further materials.
White House press secretary Karolin Lewit said Trump on Thursday “Will not recommend a special prosecutor“Despite the calls from some of his leading supporters for that idea, be appointed to review the handling of the criminal case against Epstein.
In a memorandum issued by the Department of Justice this month, the FBI said that the “systematic review” of Epstein case files did not show that there is no ‘client list’. ,
Memo said, “There was no reliable evidence that Epstein blackmailed the prominent persons as part of their actions.” “We did not reveal the evidence that could predict an inquiry against the unchanged third party.”
Memo also supported the previous official decision that Epstein had killed himself, and included a video with footage, which confirmed that “Epstein was locked in his cell at around 10:40 am on August 9, 2019, until around 6:30 pm, no one, no one, did not enter the special housing unit of the Marashan Jail” at any level.
But Wired magazine Early this week, it was reported that “the newly opened metadata shows that about three minutes of footage were cut from the US Department of Justice and the Federal Investigation Department. It has been told As ‘Full raw’ surveillance video The only job near the camera Jeffrey Epstein The jail cell had died before one night. ,
