President Donald Trump said he made it for Jeffrey Epstein after sueing the Wall Street Journal.
DOJ releases Ghislaine Maxwell interview audio
The Justice Department has released audio of an interview with Gislaine Maxwell, including comments on Jeffrey Epstein and President Donald Trump.
The House Committee hopes for a copy of Jeffrey Epstein’s birthday book, which is reportedly containing a ribbed message from President Donald Trump.
The House Oversight Committee is summoning the real estate of the late filing company to explore the mismanagement of a federal investigation involving Epstein and his ex-girlfriend Githraine Maxwell.
The subpoena signed by Rep. James Kommer, Republican Chairman of the Oversight Committee on August 25th, can constitute “potential clients,” including Epstein’s will, the disclosure agreement he signed, a non-proposed agreement he signed with a Southern Florida civil service in 2007, his financial transactions and holdings, and “potential clients.”
“We understand that Jeffrey Epstein’s property is under the custody and control of unauthorized documents that could promote the committee’s investigation and legislative goals,” Kommer wrote in a letter to an attorney overseeing Epstein’s property. “We also understand that the property is ready and ready to provide these documents to the committee in accordance with the subpoena.
The first entry Subpoena will provide to Congress is “all entries included in the reported leather-bound book edited by Gislane Maxwell for Jeffrey Epstein’s 50th birthday.” Trump denied a Wall Street Journal report that he provided handwritten notes to the book and sued the publication.
The committee “considers the possibility of mismanagement of Jeffrey Epstein and Gislaine Maxwell’s federal investigations, the circumstances and subsequent investigations of Epstein’s death, the operation of the sex trafficking ring, the ways in which the federal government can fight effectively, and the potential violations of the ethical rules relating to civil servants.”
Subpoena arrives after the release of the Maxwell Marathon interview
The subpoena comes after the Justice Department delivered the first batch of Epstein documents to the committee on August 22nd. Legal requests also came after DOJ released a transcript of an interview with Associate Attorney General Todd Blanche in Tallahassee, Florida last month. Maxwell spoke about meeting Trump and his relationship with Epstein and former President Bill Clinton.
The Trump administration faces heavy criticism from Republicans and Democrats as it rejected previously rejecting the investigation records it has held in connection with the lawsuit.
Epstein died of suicide in a federal prison in New York in 2019, awaiting federal charges related to sex trafficking, but sparked anger and theory about who else knew or was involved in the sex ring that allegedly ran with Maxwell’s support. Maxwell was sentenced to 20 years in prison.
Trump fights to write a message to Epstein
Trump refused to write an off-color message to Epstein in the book, suing the Wall Street Journal after the outlet reported his birthday greeting. Trump is seeking $10 billion in damages in a lawsuit filed in Miami federal court on July 18th. He named Dow Jones & Company, News Corporation, owner Rupert Murdoch and two journal reporters in the lawsuit.
Under the issue is a story published on July 17th, describing a letter from Trump that the journal, written in 2003, is part of a leather-bound birthday book containing dozens of other letters presented to Epstein. According to the Journal, Trump’s letter ends with “Happy Birthday – and Great Secrets of Everyday.”
According to the journal, Trump’s signature, written in the form of text within the hand-drawn outline of a naked woman, is “a wavy “Donald” under the waist, mimicking pubic hair.”
The president called the letter “fake” in a social media post after the article was published, calling the letter “fake” and described the story as “false, malicious and defamatory.”
Epstein was worth millions at the time of his death. Epstein owned property in New York, Palm Beach, Florida, and the Caribbean, but how he accumulated his property remains unknown. His fortune paid Epstein’s victims a village worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
His estate will need to prepare the information requested by the Oversight Board until September 8th.
Contributors were Asyha Bagchi, Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy, Zac Anderson, Joey Garrison and Jack Myer of the USA Today Network.
