President Donald Trump suggested on Friday that there is no “smoking weapon” in the archives of Jeffrey Epstein, since he seeks to minimize a case that for a long time encouraged his Maga supporters.
“If there was a ‘smoking gun’ in Epstein, why did the Democrats not control the ‘files’ for four years and had Garland and Comey in charge, they used it? Why did they have nothing!” Trump wrote on his conservative social networks.
The publication occurs after Trump announced Thursday night that ordered Attorney General Pam Bondi to seek the launch of additional Epstein material.
Trump said he asked Bondi to “produce any testimony of the relevant grand jury, subject to the approval of the Court.”
Bondi, in response, said the action could come in court as soon as Friday. But the release of any grand jury could take more time, subject to a legal process to consider the impact on the victims and, ultimately, the approval of a federal judge.
Donald Trump looks at the day he signs Halt Fentanyl’s law, in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on July 16, 2025.
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According to a report on the Wall Street Journal, Trump allegedly sent Epstein a letter in 2003 for his 50th birthday. The president now threatens to sue the newspaper, and in an interview with El Journal, denied having written the letter. ABC News has not been able to confirm the existence of the letter.
“I hope that Rupert Murdoch testifies in my demand against him and his newspaper ‘Garbage battery’, the WSJ. It will be an interesting experience!” The president wrote on his social networks on Friday.
Trump’s move to order the Attorney General to seek the release of additional material from the Grand Jury occurs after a week of intense pressure from his magician supporters to make more about Epstein after a brief memorandum of the Department of Justice and the FBI that does not indicate that there is no more dissemination “would be appropriate or guaranteed.”
The Memorandum declared a review of the Department of Justice and the FBI found no evidence that Epstein maintained a call “clients’ list of associates or that he blackmail any prominent individual, and also confirmed that the dishonored financial died for suicide in prison while waiting for a trial for sexual treatment charges.
Bondi days ago he had said that the “memorandum speaks for himself.”
Among then and now, Trump has tried to reduce the intrigue in Epstein that has been fed by right -wing figures for years, including the theories of conspiracy of a “deep state” that protects the elites of the country.
He has called Epstein’s archives a “democratic deception” against him and those republican supporters who question the management of his administration as “stupid” and “silly.”
But his administration has closed the idea of appointing a special prosecutor in the case of Epstein.
“The idea was floated from someone in the media to the president. The president would not recommend a special prosecutor in the case of Epstein. This is how it feels,” said White House Secretary Karoline Leavitt, to journalists in Thursday’s information.
