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senseandsensibility

(22,936 posts)
Fri Jul 18, 2025, 06:05 PM Friday

So will the corporate media go along and pretend that unsealing grand jury

documents (the "pertinent" ones) is transparency? Trump just filed the motion to unseal the grand jury documents. It is not the same as releasing the Epstein files.

I think I heard an analyst last night say that the grand jury evidence is purposely vague and constitutes maybe two percent of all the material in the files.

But will the corporate media be able to convince people that trump is revealing everything? I know they'll try their best to muddy the waters.

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So will the corporate media go along and pretend that unsealing grand jury (Original Post) senseandsensibility Friday OP
Usually grand just testimony is just enough to get the DA's foot through the courtroom door. CincyDem Friday #1
That was kind of what they were conveying on MSNBC senseandsensibility Friday #2
This message was self-deleted by its author LetMyPeopleVote Saturday #3
Justice Dept. asks court to release Epstein grand jury testimony LetMyPeopleVote Saturday #4
No one asked for the Grand Jury transcripts LetMyPeopleVote Sunday #5

senseandsensibility

(22,936 posts)
2. That was kind of what they were conveying on MSNBC
Fri Jul 18, 2025, 06:25 PM
Friday

last night. Not nearly the same thing as "releasing the Epstein files".

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LetMyPeopleVote

(166,499 posts)
4. Justice Dept. asks court to release Epstein grand jury testimony
Sat Jul 19, 2025, 04:24 PM
Saturday

This is a stunt which would not include the vast majority of the file on Epstein. First, it is highly unlikely that the court will release these files given the appeal by Maxwell. The material in these transcripts are a very tiny part of the material in the FBI/DOJ possession.

This is a stunt to try to take pressure off trump.



https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/07/18/bondi-epstein-files-documents-grand-jury-testimony-doj/

The Justice Department on Friday asked a federal court to release grand jury transcripts connected to deceased financier Jeffrey Epstein, responding to a growing political outcry over the agency’s unfulfilled promise to release more details on the government’s investigation of his alleged sex-trafficking of minors......

A judge would have to agree to release them, a process that could take weeks or months. Even then, their disclosure is by no means certain. Grand jury records are shielded by secrecy rules to protect crime victims, witnesses and the accused, and are made public only under limited circumstances......

The sealed transcripts would constitute only a fraction of the evidence and investigative material that the FBI amassed during its years-long investigation. The transcripts are unlikely to fully satisfy Trump’s right-wing base, which continues to call for full transparency surrounding the investigation.

“It is generally a very, very small portion of any investigative file,” said Christopher O’Leary, who spent more than two decades as an FBI counterterrorism agent.

The full extent of what remains under wraps is unclear. Thousands of pages of documents related to the Epstein investigation have already been released through lawsuits, court filings, public records requests and the Justice Department’s prosecution of Maxwell......

As recently as last year, the younger Comey had sought in court to keep records pertaining to some aspects of the Epstein investigation under wraps in a suit brought by the gossip website Radar Online seeking FBI records. Comey pushed against making those documents public in a January 2024 court filing, saying it could interfere with Maxwell’s ongoing appeal of her conviction and subject victims and witnesses to “embarrassment and potential harassment.”
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