The Department of Justice formally requested on Friday the insult of the Grand Jury records linked to federal investigations to Jeffrey Epstein, according to a presentation of the court.
President Donald Trump announced the previous day that ordered the Attorney General Pam Bondi to seek the release of additional Epstein material after setbacks from conservatives and others to obtain more transparency in the case.
“In the Attorney General’s Office, the Department of Justice moves the Court to release the transcripts of the Great Jury associated with the accusation previously referenced,” said the motion.
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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The department said in the presentation that the request follows the “extensive public interest” since the DOJ and the FBI issued their memorandum of July 6 with respect to their decision not to release more federal investigations files to Epstein.
“While the Department of Justice and the Federal Office of Research continue to adhere to the conclusions achieved in the memorandum, transparency to the US public is of the utmost importance for this administration,” said the presentation. “Given the public interest in the investigation work carried out by the Department of Justice and the Federal Office of Investigation on Epstein, the Department of Justice moves the Court to disarm the transcripts of the underlying grand jury in the United States v. Epstein, subject to the appropriate writings of personal identification information and another personal identification.”
The presentation says that the DOJ plans to work with the United States Prosecutor’s Office for the Southern District of New York “to make the appropriate writings of the victims related to the victims and other personal identification information before liberating transcripts.”
“Transparency in this process will not be at the expense of our obligation under the law to protect victims,” adds the presentation.
The presentation asks the court “concludes that the EPStein 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. “
The motion is only signed by the Attorney General Pam Bondi and the attached attorney general Todd Blanche, no career prosecutor in the office of the United States prosecutor for the Southern District of New York is in the presentation.
This image of evidence of trial without date obtained on December 8, 2021 of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York shows the British socialité Ghislaine Maxwell and the financial financial of the United States Jeffrey Epstein.
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The presentation of the Department of Justice occurs when Trump filed a demand for defamation against the Wall Street Journal, Rupert Murdoch and others on Thursday’s report on Trump’s alleged birthday message sent to Epstein in 2003.
Trump has denied the Wall Street Journal who wrote 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 media platform on Friday morning.
The earlier Friday, Trump suggested that there is no “smoking weapon” in Epstein’s archives, since he seeks to minimize a case that for a long time encouraged his magic 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.
Trump said he asked Bondi to “produce any testimony of the relevant grand jury, subject to the approval of the Court.”
Attorney General Pam Bondi talks to journalists while President Donald Trump listens, on June 27, 2025, in the White House Information Chamber in Washington.
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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.
Senator Dick Durbin, the main Democrat in the Judicial Committee of the Senate, wrote three separate letters to Bondi, the director of the FBI Kash Patel and the deputy director of the FBI, Dan Bongino, to ask questions about the discrepancies about the Epstein archives and about the memorandum of July 7 of the administration committed to Epstein.
Durbin wrote that his office received information that Bondi “pressed the FBI” to recruit 1,000 personnel, together with the staff of the New York field office, to review approximately 100,000 records related to EPStein and to “mark” any record in which Trump was mentioned. He asked Bondi to answer a series of questions about his personal review of Epstein’s documents.
Allison Pecorin of ABC News contributed to this report.
