The Justice Division formally requested Friday the unsealing of grand jury information tied to federal investigations into Jeffrey Epstein, in line with a courtroom submitting.
President Donald Trump introduced the day past that he ordered Legal professional Normal Pam Bondi to hunt the discharge of extra Epstein materials following pushback from conservatives and others for extra transparency within the case.
“On the path of the Legal professional Normal, the Division of Justice hereby strikes the Courtroom to launch grand jury transcripts related to the above-referenced indictment,” the movement mentioned.
Donald Trump seems to be on on the day he indicators the HALT Fentanyl Act, within the East Room on the White Home in Washington, D.C., July 16, 2025.
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The division mentioned within the submitting that the request follows “in depth public curiosity” generated since DOJ and FBI issued its July 6 memo concerning their resolution to not launch any additional information from federal investigations into Epstein.
“Whereas the Division of Justice and Federal Bureau of Investigation proceed to stick to the conclusions reached within the Memorandum, transparency to the American public is of the utmost significance to this Administration,” the submitting said. “Given the general public curiosity within the investigative work performed by the Division of Justice and Federal Bureau of Investigation into Epstein, the Division of Justice strikes the Courtroom to unseal the underlying grand jury transcripts in United States v. Epstein, topic to acceptable redactions of victim-related and different private figuring out data.”
The submitting says DOJ plans to work with the U.S. Legal professional’s Workplace for the Southern District of New York “to make acceptable redactions of victim-related data and different private figuring out data previous to releasing the transcripts.”
“Transparency on this course of won’t be on the expense of our obligation below the regulation to guard victims,” the submitting provides.
The submitting requests the courtroom “conclude that the Epstein and (Ghislaine) Maxwell instances qualify as a matter of public curiosity, launch the related grand jury transcripts, and elevate any preexisting protecting orders.”
The movement is signed solely by Legal professional Normal Pam Bondi and Deputy Legal professional Normal Todd Blanche — no profession prosecutors within the U.S. Legal professional’s Workplace for the Southern District of New York are on the submitting.
This undated trial proof picture obtained December 8, 2021, from the US District Courtroom for the Southern District of New York exhibits British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell and US financier Jeffrey Epstein.
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The Justice Division’s submitting comes as Trump has filed a libel lawsuit in opposition to the Wall Road Journal, Rupert Murdoch and others over the Thursday report about Trump’s alleged birthday message despatched to Epstein in 2003. Based on the lawsuit, Trump is searching for $10 billion in damages.
Trump has denied to the Wall Road Journal that he wrote the letter. ABC Information has not been capable of affirm the existence of the letter.
“I look ahead to getting Rupert Murdoch to testify in my lawsuit in opposition to him and his ‘pile of rubbish’ newspaper, the WSJ. That will probably be an attention-grabbing expertise!!!” the president wrote on his social media platform Friday morning.
Earlier Friday, Trump urged there isn’t any “smoking gun” within the Epstein information as he seeks to downplay a case that is lengthy animated his MAGA supporters.
“If there was a ‘smoking gun’ on Epstein, why did not the Dems, who managed the ‘information’ for 4 years, and had Garland and Comey in cost, use it? BECAUSE THEY HAD NOTHING!!!” Trump wrote on his conservative social media platform.
Trump mentioned he requested Bondi to “produce any and all pertinent Grand Jury testimony, topic to Courtroom approval.”
Legal professional Normal Pam Bondi speaks to reporters as President Donald Trump listens, June 27, 2025, within the briefing room of the White Home in Washington.
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The transfer from Trump to order the legal professional basic to hunt the discharge of extra grand jury materials comes after per week of intense strain from his MAGA supporters to do extra on Epstein following a short memo from the Justice Division and FBI stating no additional disclosure “can be acceptable or warranted.”
The memo said a evaluation from the DOJ and FBI discovered no proof that Epstein saved a so-called “shopper record” of associates or that he blackmailed any distinguished people, and in addition confirmed the disgraced financier died by suicide in jail whereas awaiting trial on sex-trafficking prices.
Bondi days in the past had mentioned the “memo speaks for itself.”
Between then and now, Trump has tried to tamp down intrigue into Epstein that is been fueled by right-wing figures for years, together with conspiracy theories of a “deep state” defending the nation’s elites.
He has known as the Epstein information a “Democratic hoax” in opposition to him and people Republican supporters who’re questioning his administration’s dealing with of them as “silly” and “silly.”
However his administration has shut down the concept of appointing a particular prosecutor within the Epstein case.
“The thought 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 informed reporters at Thursday’s briefing.
Sen. Dick Durbin, the highest Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, penned three separate letters to Bondi, FBI Director Kash Patel and FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino to boost questions on discrepancies in regards to the Epstein information and in regards to the July 7 memo from the administration regarding Epstein.
Durbin wrote that his workplace acquired data that Bondi “pressured the FBI” to enlist 1,000 personnel, together with New York discipline workplace personnel, to evaluation roughly 100,000 Epstein associated information and to “flag” any information through which Trump was talked about. He requested Bondi to reply to numerous questions regarding her private evaluation of the Epstein paperwork.
ABC Information’ Allison Pecorin contributed to this report.
