Trump: Epstein grand jury records unlikely to satisfy critics
More: $10 billion lawsuit. More documents coming. Here's the latest on Trump and Epstein.
Trump previously accused the Biden administration of hiding a list of Epstein clients.
The Department of Justice teased that more files would be coming out, but then on July 7, Attorney General Pam Bondi said there was no client list and no further disclosure was needed.
That led to a wave of backlash from Trump's MAGA base.
"No one believes there is not a client list," Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Georgia, a close Trump ally, posted on X July 8.
On July 18, federal prosecutors asked a federal court in Manhattan to unseal grand jury transcripts in the criminal cases against Epstein and his former associate Ghislaine Maxwell. Epstein's federal sex-trafficking case was still pending when he was found dead in a jail cell in 2019.
"Based on the ridiculous amount of publicity given to Jeffrey Epstein, I have asked Attorney General Pam Bondi to produce any and all pertinent Grand Jury testimony, subject to Court approval," Trump wrote on social media.
Rep. Thomas Massie, a Kentucky Republican who filed legislation to release all the government's Epstein records, wrote in social media post that Trump's move indicates the pressure campaign is "working."
"But we want all the files," Massie added.
It could take time for the courts to release any records, and the grand jury documents are just a portion of the unreleased files.
"What about videos, photographs and other recordings?" Democratic Rep. Daniel Goldman, a former prosecutor, wrote on social media in response to Bondi saying she'd seek the release of grand jury testimony. "What about FBI... (witness interviews)? What about texts and emails?"
Contributing: Zac Anderson, Aysha Bagchi, Joey Garrison.
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