Overview

• The Justice Department filed a motion in New York federal court to unseal grand jury transcripts from Epstein’s 2019 indictment, proposing redactions to protect victim identities.
• Grassroots MAGA activists have flooded social media with #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles to press the administration for unredacted records.
• Reps. Ro Khanna and Thomas Massie introduced the bipartisan Epstein Files Transparency Act to compel Attorney General Pam Bondi to release all unclassified Epstein-related materials.
• President Trump sued News Corp and Wall Street Journal reporters over a Journal report alleging he sent Epstein a lewd 2003 letter, and warned that court-approved releases will still fall short of critics’ demands.
• The Justice Department’s firing of prosecutor Maurene Comey, who had reopened investigations into Epstein’s network, has fueled renewed accusations of a cover-up.