The Jeffrey Epstein files may finally be released under Donald Trump’s new Attorney General Pam Bondi, who was confirmed in the top role yesterday.
Bondi, 59, told Fox News earlier this month that the documents unsealed so far in the disgraced financier’s case have been ‘so slow to come out’, while indicating that she wanted more of them to be published.
She added that the delay could be down to defendants in the documents fighting it out in court to try to keep their names anonymous – but they likely have no legal basis to do this.
‘If people in that report are still fighting to keep their names private, they have no legal basis to do so unless they’re a child, a victim or a cooperating defendant in a potential case against Ghislaine Maxwell,’ Bondi said in the January 3 interview.
GOP lawmakers are also lobbying Trump to release all the files, after he signed an executive order to divulge all files related to John F. Kennedy’s murder.
Tennessee Republicans Sen. Marsha Blackburn and Rep. Tim Burchett revealed to DailyMail.com they are pushing to have evidence on the nefarious financier unveiled.
The senator has been advocating for the sealed Epstein documents to be released for years, an effort Burchett joined early on.
Blackburn has pushed to uncover unredacted versions of Epstein’s flight logs and an unredacted version of Ghislaine Maxwell’s ‘little black book’ full of contacts and addresses – an effort she’s now seeking Trump to act on.
And she’s advocating for the Trump administration’s Department of Justice to release additional evidence like prison footage and communications leading up to Epstein’s death.
‘Jeffrey Epstein built a disgusting global sex trafficking network that caused irreparable damage to countless women,’ she told DailyMail.com in a statement.
‘Americans deserve to know exactly who was affiliated with this network. This is not about celebrities – this is about what happened to victims and survivors.’
Burchett similarly told DailyMail.com by text he too is re-upping his fight for the Epstein files now that Trump is in office and Republicans hold control.
The president has been open to releasing classified documents having just signed an executive order to release the JFK files in addition to some on Martin Luther King Jr.
On Thursday evening Trump signed an executive order that directs his Director of National Intelligence to put together a plan within 15 days for the full release of documents about the JFK assassination.
‘That’s a big one, huh?’ he said as he scratched his signature on the paper, before asking that the sharpie be given to RFK Jr. ‘A lot of people are waiting for this for a long … for years, for decades.’
‘Everything will be revealed,’ he teased.
The executive order, obtained by DailyMail.com, said: ‘More than 50 years after the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the Federal Government has not released to the public all of its records related to those events.
‘Their families and the American people deserve transparency and truth. It is in the national interest to finally release all records related to these assassinations without delay.’
Epstein’s case, meanwhile, has garnered huge attention for the big name celebrities and world leaders that could be implicated should more light shine on the federal files on the deceased sex offender.
And Trump has noted he is willing to reexamine the case.
While speaking on the Lex Fridman Podcast during the campaign, Trump said the Epstein story is ‘very interesting’ and ‘would certainly take a loot at it’ after the host asked about why ‘the list of clients that went to the island has not been made public.’
Notorious for preying on young women, Epstein was found dead in New York City’s Metropolitan Correctional Center under mysterious circumstances while awaiting a high-profile trial for sex trafficking charges.
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He was found hanged – ruled a suicide – around 6:30 am on August 10, 2019.
Epstein had a private island in the US Virgin Islands visited by the world’s most elite figures like Bill Clinton and Prince Andrew.
It was where numerous crimes are alleged to happen, fueling public concern that the late financier’s death in custody could have been a result of foul-play.
Since Epstein’s death inconsistencies have been found in the prison’s surveillance and staffing procedures leading up to the sex offender’s death.
Last year the courts unsealed names of over 170 associates in a lawsuit against Maxwell by an Epstein victim.
Though many of those named were not accused of crimes, others were claimed to be implicated and were potential witnesses to crimes, Blackburn has argued.
