Although President Donald Trump ordered the Department of Justice to request the release of more details in the investigation of the sentenced sexual offender Jeffrey Epstein, he said on Saturday that the measure can do little to quell the open criticism of the management of his administration of the case.
The president reiterated on the social networks that he asked the Department of Justice “to publish all the testimonies of the Grand Jury with respect to Jeffrey Epstein, subject only to the approval of the Court.” However, Trump lashed out at the strong voices that have requested transparency since the Department of Justice and the FBI issued their memorandum of July 6 with respect to their decision not to release more federal investigations files to the late financial financial one.
President Donald Trump leaves after signing the Genius law, a bill that regulates Stablecoins, a type of cryptocurrency, in the East of the White House, on July 18, 2025, in Washington, DC
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“Even if the court gave its complete and unwavering approval, nothing will be good enough for the relief and radical lunatics of the left making the request. It will always be more, more, more, more,” Trump said in his publication.
Trump has minimized the concerns of several people, including prominent republicans and conservative experts, that the Government has not done enough to reach the truth behind the positions of sex trafficking issued against the financial financial one six years ago. The Department of Justice and the FBI confirmed that Epstein died for suicide in a Manhattan prison on August 10, 2019.
Trump once had a friendly relationship with Epstein, socializing in New York and Palm Beach. When Epstein was arrested in 2019, Trump said they had a fall and that they had not spoken in 15 years
The president has never been accused of irregularities in relation to Epstein’s case even though his name appears several times in Epstein’s private flight records.
The Department of Justice said in his Friday presentation that his request for testimony of the Great Jury follows “a broad public interest.”
The presentation said that the DOJ plans to work with the United States Prosecutor’s Office for the Southern District of New York “to make appropriate writings related to victims and other personal identification information before freeing transcriptions.”
“Transparency in this process will not be at the expense of our obligation under the law to protect victims,” added the presentation.
The presentation, which was only signed by the Attorney General Pam Bondi and the attached attorney general Todd Blanche, asked the court to “conclude that the EPSSTEIN and [Ghislaine] Maxwell’s cases qualify as a matter of public interest, release the transcripts of the associated grand jury and raise pre -existing protection orders. “
Maxwell, associate of Epstein, was convicted of sex trafficking and other positions and sentenced to 20 years in prison in 2022.
Travelers go through a bus stop near the nine -ELMS station when activists put a sign that shows President Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein near the United States Embassy in London, on July 17, 2025.
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A former Federal Prosecutor told ABC News that the request of the Department of Justice may not give any new details.
The transcript probably mentions a small fraction of the general testimony and the evidence gathered by the Department of Justice against the dishonored financial, told ABC News, former assistant of the Fiscal Prosecutor of the United States, Sarah Krisseoff.
While their supporters have announced the promise of the president to disassemble transcripts as evidence of his commitment to transparency, Krisseoff warned that the testimony of the grand jury generally does not yield much light compared to the file of the case or the evidence presented in the trial.
“The testimony of the grand jury will be very limited compared to the entire case file,” he said. “It will simply be a real and high level review, a prominent reel, of which prosecutors think it is important in the case file, which could be hundreds of thousands, if not millions of documents.”
Krissoff spent more than a decade as a prosecutor in the United States prosecutor for the Southern District of New York, which brought criminal cases against Epstein and Maxwell. Krissoff, now a partner of Cozen O’Connor, did not work directly in any of the cases.
She said that SDNY prosecutors generally do not present first -hand witnesses to the Grand Jury, but choose to use federal agents who can summarize the evidence and testimony of others.
“The standard practice, particularly in the SDNY, is to maintain the greatest jury as thin as possible,” Krisseoff said. “The prosecutor’s goal is essentially to make as little evidence as they need to obtain that accusation.”
President Donald Trump arrives at an event to sign the Genius Law, a bill that regulates the stable, a type of cryptocurrency, in the East Room of the White House, on July 18, 2025, in Washington
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Taking into account public evidence through civil lawsuits and Maxwell’s criminal trial, KrisSoff argued that it is unlikely that transcripts change the public understanding of the case.
“I understand that the president wants to appease some people revealing the testimony of the grand jury, but I don’t see that really shed a light on a lot here,” he said.
