Trump seeks release of grand jury transcripts as Epstein uproar widens

US president threatens to writer US paper for publishing details of lurid missive helium allegedly wrote to deceased enactment offender successful 2003.

United States President Donald Trump has asked Attorney General Pam Bondi to petition a tribunal merchandise expansive assemblage grounds successful the Jeffrey Epstein case, arsenic uproar implicit the contention widens.

The lawsuit of deceased high-profile enactment offender Epstein has dominated quality precocious aft the Trump medication reversed people past week connected its pledge to merchandise documents it had suggested contained damning revelations astir Epstein and his alleged elite clientele.

That reversal enraged galore of Trump’s astir loyal followers and prompted allegations that his medication is covering up lurid details of Epstein’s crimes to support affluent and almighty figures.

Trump himself had been associated with Epstein and erstwhile called him a friend.

“Based connected the ridiculous magnitude of publicity fixed to Jeffrey Epstein, I person asked Attorney General Pam Bondi to nutrient immoderate and each pertinent Grand Jury testimony, taxable to Court approval. This SCAM, perpetuated by the Democrats, should end, close now!” Trump wrote connected his Truth Social level precocious connected Thursday.

Shortly aft Trump’s statement, Attorney General Bondi said connected societal media that the Justice Department was acceptable to inquire the tribunal connected Friday to unseal the expansive assemblage transcripts.

“President Trump – we are acceptable to determination the tribunal time to unseal the expansive assemblage transcripts,” Bondi wrote.

The latest improvement comes conscionable hours aft Trump threatened to writer The Wall Street Journal aft it published a communicative astir an alleged risque missive helium wrote to Epstein that featured a drafting of a bare woman. The WSJ story, which rapidly reverberated astir the US capital, says the enactment to Epstein bearing Trump’s signature was portion of a postulation assembled for Epstein’s 50th day successful 2003.

The paper said it reviewed the missive but did not people an image.

“The Editor of The Wall Street Journal… was told straight by [White House Press Secretary] Karoline Leavitt, and by President Trump, that the missive was a FAKE,” Trump wrote connected his societal media platform.

“Instead, they are going with a false, malicious, and defamatory communicative anyway,” helium said.

“President Trump volition beryllium suing The Wall Street Journal, NewsCorp, and Mr. [Rupert] Murdoch, shortly. The Press has to larn to beryllium truthful, and not trust connected sources that astir apt don’t adjacent exist,” helium added.

The alleged letter, which Trump denies writing, involves respective lines of typewritten text, contained successful an outline of a bare pistillate drawn with a marker.

“The aboriginal president’s signature is simply a squiggly ‘Donald’ beneath her waist, mimicking pubic hair,” the Journal reported.

“The missive concludes: ‘Happy Birthday — and whitethorn each time beryllium different fantastic secret.'”

Trump told the WSJ: “This is not me. This is simply a fake thing.”

“I don’t gully pictures of women,” helium said. “It’s not my language. It’s not my words.”

Epstein took his ain beingness successful a New York situation successful 2019 – during Trump’s archetypal word – aft being charged with enactment trafficking successful a strategy wherever helium allegedly groomed young and underage women for intersexual maltreatment by the affluent and powerful.

The Trump-supporting far-right has agelong latched onto the scandal, claiming the beingness of a still-secret database of Epstein’s almighty clients and that the precocious financier was, successful fact, murdered successful his compartment arsenic portion of a cover-up.

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Al Jazeera and quality agencies