Overview

• Pam Bondi and Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche filed the motion Friday at President Trump’s direction to unseal testimony from the 2019 grand jury hearings in the Epstein case
• The request outlines cooperation with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York to redact victim-related and other sensitive personal information before any public release
• Under Rule 6(e) of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, a federal judge must approve the motion and oversee what material can be disclosed
• Legal experts caution that the multi-step review and redaction process could stretch over weeks or months before transcripts become available
• President Trump branded his critics “radical left lunatics” on Truth Social, even as figures like Tucker Carlson and Charlie Kirk voiced frustration with the administration’s pace and scope of disclosures