A federal judge in Florida has denied the Justice Department’s request to unseal grand-jury testimony from the Epstein cases in the state.
One of the Trump administration’s dumbest gambles to deflect the Epstein-files backlash is already beginning to flop. Soon after The Wall Street Journal’s birthday-letter bombshell dropped last Thursday, Donald Trump announced he had instructed Attorney General Pam Bondi to produce sealed grand-jury transcripts from the federal investigations into Jeffrey Epstein. A day later, the Justice Department officially asked federal courts in Florida and New York to unseal the grand-jury files for the Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell cases, citing reasons such as “extensive public interest” as part of their rationale.
