President Trump on Friday requested why the Democrats — after they managed the Senate and White Home — didn’t launch the recordsdata linked to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, which have dominated the headlines in latest days.
“If there was a ‘smoking gun’ on Epstein, why didn’t the Dems, who managed the ‘recordsdata’ for 4 years, and had [former Attorney General Merrick] Garland and [ex-prosecutor Maureen] Comey in cost, use it,” Trump wrote on Reality Social.
He added, “BECAUSE THEY HAD NOTHING!!!”
His remark got here hours after the president directed Lawyer Normal Pam Bondi to launch related grand jury testimony in Epstein’s case. The directive, which has garnered mixed reactions, follows pressure from a few of Trump’s supporters and Democrats alike for the White Home to reveal extra details about its probe of the case.
“Primarily based on the ridiculous quantity of publicity given to Jeffrey Epstein, I’ve requested Lawyer Normal Pam Bondi to supply any and all pertinent Grand Jury testimony, topic to Court docket approval,” Trump wrote Thursday evening. “This SCAM, perpetuated by the Democrats, ought to finish, proper now!”
Bondi responded on social platform X, saying the Justice Division (DOJ) is “prepared to maneuver the courtroom tomorrow to unseal the grand jury transcripts.”
Trump’s MAGA base has urged the Trump administration to work on releasing extra paperwork associated to the case because the DOJ and FBI issued a joint memo final week concluding Epstein died by suicide in 2019 whereas awaiting trial and didn’t have a so-called “consumer listing.”
The president’s directive to Bondi got here simply hours after The Wall Avenue Journal released a report detailing an alleged letter the president wrote to Epstein for the financier’s fiftieth birthday in 2003. The letter was typed contained in the define of a unadorned girl, ending with “Blissful Birthday — and should each day be one other fantastic secret,” the Journal reported.
In response, Trump hammered the Journal, saying he would sue the news outlet and denied that he wrote the letter.
“President Trump shall be suing The Wall Avenue Journal, NewsCorp, and Mr. Murdoch, shortly,” Trump wrote Thursday online. “The Press has to be taught to be truthful, and never depend on sources that most likely don’t even exist.”