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Eugene

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Thu Jul 31, 2025, 10:36 AM Jul 2025

Bondi Blows Up Trump Claim Epstein Files Are a 'Hoax' [View all]

Source: The Daily Beast

Bondi Blows Up Trump Claim Epstein Files Are a ‘Hoax’

Farrah Tomazin
Wed, July 30, 2025 at 11:46 AM EDT
3 min read

Attorney General Pam Bondi has undercut President Donald Trump’s claim that the Jeffrey Epstein files are a hoax, admitting there is “abundant public interest” in providing Americans with details of the investigation into his sex trafficking operations.

In a late-night court filing by the Department of Justice, Bondi and her deputy, Todd Blanche, urged a Manhattan court to unseal Grand Jury transcripts from the case, noting that the issue has escalated following the administration’s attempts to shut it down.

“Attention given to the Epstein and Maxwell cases has recently intensified in the wake of the July 6, 2025 Memorandum announcing the conclusions of the Government’s review into the investigation,” they wrote in the memorandum.

“There is undoubtedly a clearly expressed interest from the public in Jeffrey Epstein’s and Ghislaine Maxwell’s crimes,” it adds.

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Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/bondi-blows-trump-claim-epstein-154642093.html

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