TRUMP FACES PRESSURE TO RELEASE EPSTEIN FILES
President Donald Trump and his administration are under growing pressure from supporters to release more information about the Justice Department’s investigation into Epstein, who died by suicide in jail in 2019 while awaiting trial.
Attorney General Pam Bondi had earlier pledged to release additional materials linked to Epstein’s alleged clients. However, the department reversed course this month, concluding there was no justification for continuing the investigation and no evidence of a client list or blackmail operation.
Since then, the department has sought court approval to unseal grand jury transcripts from its previous investigations into Epstein and Maxwell.
On Wednesday, US District Judge Robin Rosenberg rejected one such request, ruling it did not meet the criteria for making grand jury materials public.
Trump’s name, along with those of other high-profile individuals, appeared multiple times on flight logs for Epstein’s private jet in the 1990s. Some of those records, including ones with Trump’s name, were released by the Justice Department earlier this year.
