Bondi says she’ll attempt to unseal Epstein grand jury information
Dealing with uproar in his MAGA base over the Jeffrey Epstein information, President Donald Trump has known as for Lawyer Basic Pam Bondi “to provide any and all pertinent Grand Jury testimony, topic to Courtroom approval” associated to the case.
Bondi responded on social media Thursday night, saying, “we’re prepared to maneuver the court docket tomorrow to unseal the grand jury transcripts.”
Trump, in a cellphone interview with “Simply the Information” on Actual America’s Voice on Wednesday night time, alleged with out offering proof that Democrats and former officers doctored information referring to the disgraced financier and convicted intercourse offender.
The feedback got here when Trump was requested if he wished one prosecutor to look into the broad topic of political prosecution.
“Properly, I believe it is within the case of Epstein, they’ve already checked out it, and they’re taking a look at it, and I believe all they should do is put out something credible,” Trump stated.
“However , that was run by the Biden administration for 4 years. I can think about what they put into information, identical to they did with the others,” Trump continued. “I imply, the Steele file was a complete pretend, proper? It took two years to determine that out for the individuals, and the entire issues that you just talked about have been pretend.”
“So I’d think about in the event that they have been run by Chris Wray and so they have been run by Comey, and since it was truly even earlier than that administration, they have been operating these information, and a lot of the issues that we discovered have been pretend with me,” Trump stated.
President Donald Trump is seen leaving after signing the “Halt All Deadly Trafficking of Fentanyl Act,” throughout a ceremony within the East Room of the White Home, July 16, 2025, in Washington.
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Regardless of Trump’s claims that Democrats “put” issues within the information, many paperwork referring to Epstein, together with those who point out Trump and a number of other distinguished Democrats, have been public for years.
And the White Home on Thursday shut down the concept of appointing a particular prosecutor within the Epstein case.
“The concept was floated from somebody within the media to the president. The president wouldn’t suggest a particular prosecutor within the Epstein case. That is how he feels,” White Home press secretary Karoline Leavitt instructed reporters on the briefing.
Requested to make clear what a part of the Epstein saga is a “hoax” as Trump claimed, Leavitt solely continued to criticize Democrats.
“The president is referring to the truth that Democrats have now seized on this as in the event that they ever wished transparency relating to Jeffrey Epstein, which is an asinine suggestion for any Democrat to make,” she stated. “The Democrats had management of this constructing, the White Home, for 4 years, and so they did not do a dang factor when it got here to transparency with regard to Jeffrey Epstein and his heinous crimes.”
White Home press secretary Karoline Leavitt speaks with reporters within the James Brady Press Briefing Room on the White Home, July 17, 2025, in Washington.
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Epstein was arrested in 2019 and died in jail whereas awaiting trial on sex-trafficking fees whereas Trump was president. A evaluation by the Justice Division and FBI discovered no so-called “consumer listing” and confirmed Epstein died by suicide in jail.
The temporary memo put out by the DOJ and FBI final week stoked furor amongst Trump’s diehard supporters after years of distinguished right-wing figures pushing accusations about Epstein and the “deep state” that is defending elites.
Trump’s since sought varied methods to place out the political firestorm, coming to Bondi’s protection whereas additionally saying she ought to launch what she deems “credible.”
Now, he is shifted to calling the Epstein information a “hoax” and people Republican supporters who’re questioning his administration’s dealing with of it as “silly” and “silly.”
“A number of the naive Republicans fall proper into line, like they all the time do,” the president stated on “Simply the Information.”
Requires transparency on Epstein got here from a number of Republicans on Capitol Hill on Wednesday. And Trump’s personal former vice chairman, Mike Pence, known as for the administration to “launch the entire information” relating to the Epstein investigation.
Leavitt on Thursday defended the administration’s dealing with of the Epstein information and tried to distance Trump from additional decision-making on the case.
Leavitt stated it might be as much as the Justice Division and Bondi launch every other “credible” proof.
“When it comes to redactions or grand jury seals, these are questions for the Division of Justice. These are additionally questions for the judges who’ve that data beneath a seal. And that must be requested and choose must approve it. That is out of the president’s management,” she stated when requested why they wouldn’t launch the information, with delicate data redacted, with a purpose to present extra transparency.
