Overview

• On July 29 aboard Air Force One, President Trump said he expelled Jeffrey Epstein after the financier repeatedly hired away Mar-a-Lago spa staff and that one of those workers was Virginia Giuffre.
• Trump asserted that Giuffre, who died by suicide in April after accusing Epstein of recruiting her as a teenager from the spa, “had no complaints” about Mar-a-Lago before being “stolen.”
• A July 7 DOJ memo concluded there was no incriminating Epstein “client list,” but the department has since filed court motions to unseal heavily redacted grand jury transcripts.
• Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche granted Ghislaine Maxwell limited immunity for recent interviews, even as congressional subpoenas and her immunity requests for public testimony remain unresolved.
• Bipartisan pressure for full disclosure of Epstein investigation files faces resistance from some GOP leaders and judicial hurdles in ongoing transparency battles.