Dealing with uproar in his MAGA base over the Jeffrey Epstein recordsdata, President Donald Trump has known as for Legal professional 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 courtroom 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 recordsdata regarding the disgraced financier and convicted intercourse offender.
The feedback got here when Trump was requested if he needed one prosecutor to look into the broad topic of political prosecution.
“Effectively, I feel it is within the case of Epstein, they’ve already checked out it, and they’re it, and I feel all they must do is put out something credible,” Trump mentioned.
“However you understand, that was run by the Biden administration for 4 years. I can think about what they put into recordsdata, identical to they did with the others,” Trump continued. “I imply, the Steele file was a complete faux, proper? It took two years to determine that out for the folks, and all the issues that you simply talked about have been faux.”
“So I’d think about in the event that they have been run by Chris Wray they usually have been run by Comey, and since it was really even earlier than that administration, they have been operating these recordsdata, and a lot of the issues that we discovered have been faux with me,” Trump mentioned.
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 recordsdata, many paperwork regarding 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 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 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 needed transparency in the case of Jeffrey Epstein, which is an asinine suggestion for any Democrat to make,” she mentioned. “The Democrats had management of this constructing, the White Home, for 4 years, they usually 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 expenses whereas Trump was president. A evaluation by the Justice Division and FBI discovered no so-called “consumer checklist” and confirmed Epstein died by suicide in jail.
The transient memo put out by the DOJ and FBI final week stoked furor amongst Trump’s diehard supporters after years of prominent 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 recordsdata a “hoax” and people Republican supporters who’re questioning his administration’s dealing with of it as “silly” and “silly.”
“A few of the naive Republicans fall proper into line, like they all the time do,” the president mentioned 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 vp, Mike Pence, known as for the administration to “launch all the recordsdata” concerning the Epstein investigation.
Leavitt on Thursday defended the administration’s dealing with of the Epstein recordsdata and tried to distance Trump from additional decision-making on the case.
Leavitt mentioned it will be as much as the Justice Division and Bondi launch some other “credible” proof.
“By way of redactions or grand jury seals, these are questions for the Division of Justice. These are additionally questions for the judges who’ve that data below a seal. And that must be requested and decide must approve it. That is out of the president’s management,” she mentioned when requested why they wouldn’t launch the recordsdata, with delicate data redacted, to be able to present extra transparency.
