Trump wrote in his online service Truth Social that he had “given Jeffrey Epstein due to the ridiculous size”, Justice Minister Pam Bondi asked to publish certain court documents for the case.
Specifically, Trump announced the release of Grand Jury Protocols. A Grand Jury is a group of jury who, based on documents from the public prosecutor, decide on the admissibility of an indictment. Bondi then stated that she would apply for the release of the protocols. However, the consent of the court is uncertain in the face of strict requirements.
The affair around Epstein had led to a gap between Trump and the otherwise loyal followers of his Maga movement (Make America Great Again, makes America great again). Numerous Trump supporters were outraged in online services because his government had not brought light to the scandal around the investment banker, which was found dead in his prison cell in Manhattan in 2019. Epstein was accused of misused numerous girls and young women.
The chairman of Trump’s Republican party in the House of Representatives, Mike Johnson, recently increased the pressure on the president and called for the publication of the Epstein file. “We have to put everything on the table and let people decide,” said Johnson.
Justice Minister Bondi had given the impression in the affair that there was a secret “customer list” of Epstein. At the beginning of July, however, she and the Federal Police FBI then declared the displeasure of the Trump camp that the list did not exist at all. Trump’s former consultant Steve Bannon initially belonged to the critics, but now he was standing behind the president. Trump strikes “back against his true enemies,” quoted the broadcaster CNN Bannon.
This means the Democratic Party, which Trump is responsible for the “dizziness” for Epstein. The Democrats, however, have “nothing” against him in his hand – especially not a “smoking colt”, he wrote on Truth Social. Otherwise they would have published the documents themselves.
Trump’s role in the affair raises questions about previous statements. In 2002 he still described his neighbor Epstein as “great guys” and said that he might be “beautiful women as well as me”. Trump’s name had also appeared in later approved documents for the Epstein affair, but he was not accused of misconduct.
The “Wall Street Journal” (WSJ) now reported on a letter from Trump to Epstein from 2003. In addition to the drawing of a naked woman, Trump congratulated Epstein on the 50th birthday and wrote “Happy Birthday – and may every new day be a wonderful secret”.
Trump reacted angrily to the “false, malicious and defaming article”. He announced that “WSJ” owner Rupert Murdoch sued in the ground. “These are not my words, I don’t speak. I also don’t draw pictures,” Trump wrote about Truth Social. The President had sued numerous US media in recent months and in several cases argued payments in the millions.
