Overview

• A federal judge denied the Department of Justice’s motion to unseal grand jury transcripts in the Jeffrey Epstein case, keeping key testimony under seal.
• A House Oversight subcommittee voted to subpoena the DOJ for all Epstein-related records and issued a separate subpoena to Ghislaine Maxwell to testify before the full committee.
• Attorney General Pam Bondi told President Trump that his name appears multiple times in the Epstein files, according to a recent Wall Street Journal report.
• The administration dispatched Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard to a White House briefing to amplify an unfounded claim that President Obama committed treason.
• Some Republican lawmakers have joined Democrats in pressing for full release of the Epstein documents, exposing fractures within the GOP over the broken MAGA promise.