Donald Trump, Jeffrey Epstein
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The Justice Department said unsealing grand jury transcripts related to Epstein's case is necessary given "longstanding and legitimate" public interest in the case.
"I have asked the Justice Department to release all grand jury testimony with respect to Epstein," Trump said.
Trump and his administration recently faced scrutiny over their handling of Epstein’s sex abuse case after building up hype for the files’ release — only for the Department of Justice and FBI to say there was no evidence Epstein was murdered in jail, nor did he have a so-called “client list.”
"All the work that we did to tell the world what happened to us, it’s all being erased," victim Danielle Bensky said.
Trump's post comes after the Justice Department asked federal judges to unseal the grand jury testimonies in the criminal case of Jeffrey Epstein.
For nearly 15 years, the two men socialized together in Manhattan and Palm Beach, Fla., before a falling out that preceded Mr. Epstein’s first arrest.
President Donald Trump sued the Wall Street Journal, seeking at least $10 billion in damages, after the newspaper described a letter he allegedly sent to Jeffrey Epstein in 2003.
Trump and Epstein met around the time Trump bought Mar-a-Lago in 1985, when Epstein was also living in Palm Beach, according to Trump, who told New York magazine in 2002 he had known Epstein for “15 years,
And yet, by this point, many of Trump’s supporters had established that they still care very much about Epstein, and were not willing to move along. Elon Musk—who, while in the process of blowing up his relationship with the President,
The president's drawings resurfaced following a report that he sent a letter and sketch to Jeffrey Epstein for his 50th birthday.
The FBI allegedly instructed agents to “flag” any mention of President Donald Trump while reviewing files related to Jeffrey Epstein.