Trump sues Wall Street Journal for $10 billion via Epstein’s birthday letter report
President Trump filed a $10 billion lawsuit against Rupert Murdoch and the Wall Street Journal, alleging that he sent Epstein in a birthday letter that he had stripped Epstein.
One former lawyer for Jeffrey Epstein asked the Department of Justice to release additional investigation records from the sex trafficking investigation, urging the government to grant Epstein’s ex-girlfriend immunity so that he could testify about his crimes.
In an interview with “Fox News Sunday,” Alan Dershowitz said on July 18 that Attorney General Pam Bondi asked a federal judge to seal the type of information that President Donald Trump’s supporters, including the names of Epstein’s clients, was sought by the transcript of the big ju judge.
“I think the judges should release it, but they’re not on the transcripts of the big ju judge,” Dershowitz told Fox.
“I’ve seen some of these materials, for example, there’s an FBI report of interviews with suspects who have at least one of the victims named a very important person,” he said, adding that those names have been edited.
Trump had pressured his supporters to release additional information to Epstein related to the government’s sex trafficking investigation.
Earlier this year, Bondi promised that the department would release additional material such as “many names” and “many flight logs.”
The department was supported by its promise earlier this month, and after releasing a joint memo with the FBI, it poured cold water into long-term conspiracy theories about Epstein.
The memo also supported an earlier FBI investigation that concluded that Epstein died of suicide and was not killed in a prison cell.
Bondi and FBI director Kash Patel have faced backlash from Trump supporters since the memo was issued, and last week urged Trump to ask the court to ask him to seal his big ju judge transcript from the Epstein case.
The US government filed a motion Friday in Manhattan federal court to establish a transcript for the Great Jue Court, in the case of Epstein and former associate Githlane Maxwell.
Maxwell was convicted in 2021 of five federal charges related to her role in sexual abuse of a minor girl in Epstein. Maxwell is suing her conviction and 20 years in prison before the U.S. Supreme Court.
The release of the large juice document may be out of reach what many Trump supporters are asking, including the case files held by the administration, and judges can reject the administration’s request to make transcripts public.
Dershowitz on Sunday told “Fox News Sunday” that information that did not require Bondi to be sealed was “much more useful and much more relevant.”
He added that Maxwell’s immunity should also be granted so that the government can testify before Congress about what knowledge she has about Epstein’s alleged crime.
“She knows everything. She’s a Rosetta stone,” he said of Maxwell.
“If she only used immunity, she might be forced to testify.”
(Reporting by Sarah N. Lynch, edited by Chizu Nomiyama)
