尽管唐纳德·特朗普总统命令司法部要求公布更多关于被定罪的性犯罪者的调查细节杰弗里·爱泼斯坦他周六声称，此举可能无助于平息对其政府处理此案的直言不讳的批评。
总统在社交媒体上重申，他要求DOJ“发布所有大陪审团关于杰弗里·爱泼斯坦的证词，只需法院批准。”然而，自司法部和美国联邦调查局7月6日发布备忘录，决定不再公布联邦调查已故金融家的任何进一步文件以来，特朗普猛烈抨击了呼吁透明度的响亮声音。
“即使法院给予了完全和坚定的批准，对提出请求的麻烦制造者和激进的左翼疯子来说，没有什么是足够好的。它将永远是更多，更多，更多，”特朗普在他的帖子中说。
特朗普淡化了包括知名共和党人和保守派学者在内的一些人的担忧，即政府没有采取足够的措施来查明六年前对这位金融家提出的性贩运指控背后的真相。司法部和美国联邦调查局证实，爱泼斯坦于2019年8月10日在曼哈顿监狱自杀身亡。
特朗普曾与爱泼斯坦关系友好，在纽约和棕榈滩社交。当爱泼斯坦在2019年被捕时，特朗普说他们闹翻了，已经15年没有说过话
总统从未被指控在爱泼斯坦案件中有不当行为，尽管他名字出现了几次爱泼斯坦的私人飞机飞行日志。
DOJ在说这是星期五的文件要求大陪审团作证是出于“广泛的公众利益”
文件称，DOJ计划与美国纽约南区检察官办公室合作，“在公布笔录之前，对受害者相关信息和其他个人身份信息进行适当的编辑”
“这一过程中的透明度不会以牺牲我们依法保护受害者的义务为代价，”文件补充道。
该文件仅由司法部长帕姆·邦迪(Pam Bondi)和副总检察长托德·布兰奇(Todd Blanche)签署，要求法院“认定爱泼斯坦和[吉斯莱恩]麦克斯韦尔案件符合公共利益，公布相关的大陪审团记录，并取消任何先前存在的保护令。”
爱泼斯坦的合伙人麦克斯韦尔被判犯有性交易和其他罪名，并于2022年被判处20年监禁。
一名前联邦检察官告诉ABC新闻，司法部的要求可能不会提供任何新的细节。
前美国助理检察官莎拉·克里索夫告诉美国广播公司新闻，这份文字记录可能提到了DOJ针对这位名誉扫地的金融家收集的全部证词和证据的一小部分。
虽然总统的支持者称他承诺公开这些记录是他致力于透明度的证据，但克里索夫警告说，与案件档案或审判时提交的证据相比，大陪审团的证词通常不会提供太多信息。
“与整个案件档案相比，大陪审团的证词将非常有限，”她说。“这将是一次真正的、高水平的审查——一个亮点——检察官认为案件档案中的重要内容，这可能是数十万甚至数百万份文件。”
克里索夫在纽约南区美国检察官办公室担任了十多年的检察官，对爱泼斯坦和麦克斯韦尔提起了刑事诉讼。克里索夫现在是Cozen O'Connor的合伙人，他没有直接参与这两起案件。
她说，SDNY检察官一般不会向大陪审团提供第一手证人，而是选择使用能够总结证据和其他人证词的联邦探员。
“标准做法，尤其是在SDNY，是让大陪审团陈述尽可能精简，”克里索夫说。“检察官的目标基本上是提出尽可能少的证据，以获得起诉。”
考虑到通过民事诉讼和对Maxwell的刑事审判公开的证据，Krissoff认为抄本不太可能改变公众对案件的理解。
“我理解总统想通过披露大陪审团的证词来安抚一些人，但我不认为这真的能揭示出什么，”她说。
Trump calls those who want Epstein files released 'troublemakers'
Although President Donald Trump ordered the Justice Department to request the release of more details in the probe of convicted sex offenderJeffrey Epstein, he claimed Saturday that the move may do little to quell the outspoken criticism of his administration's handling of the case.
The president reiterated on social media that he asked the DOJ "to release all Grand Jury testimony with respect to Jeffrey Epstein, subject only to Court Approval." Trump, however, lashed out against the loud voices who have called for transparency since the Justice Department and FBI issued their July 6 memo regarding their decision not to release any further files from federal investigations into the late financier.
President Donald Trump departs after signing the GENIUS Act, a bill that regulates stablecoins, a type of cryptocurrency, in the East Room of the White House, July 18, 2025, in Washington, D.C.
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"Even if the Court gave its full and unwavering approval, nothing will be good enough for the troublemakers and radical left lunatics making the request. It will always be more, more, more," Trump said in his post.
Trump has downplayed the concerns from several people, including prominent Republicans and conservative pundits, that the government hasn't done enough to get to the truth behind the sex trafficking charges issued against the financier six years ago. The Justice Department and FBI confirmed Epstein died by suicide in a Manhattan jail on Aug. 10, 2019.
Trump once had a friendly relationship with Epstein, socializing in New York and Palm Beach. When Epstein was arrested in 2019, Trump said they’d had a falling out and hadn’t spoken in 15 years
The president has never been accused of wrongdoing in connection with the Epstein case despite hisname appearing several timeson Epstein's private jet flight logs.
The DOJ said inits Friday filingthat its request for grand jury testimony follows "extensive public interest."
The filing said the DOJ plans to work with the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York "to make appropriate redactions of victim-related information and other personal identifying information prior to releasing the transcripts."
"Transparency in this process will not be at the expense of our obligation under the law to protect victims," the filing added.
The filing, which was only signed by Attorney General Pam Bondi and Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, requested the court "conclude that the Epstein and [Ghislaine] Maxwell cases qualify as a matter of public interest, release the associated grand jury transcripts, and lift any preexisting protective orders."
Maxwell, an associate of Epstein, was convicted of sex trafficking and other charges and sentenced to 20 years in prison in 2022.
A former federal prosecutor told ABC News that the Justice Department's request might not give any new details.
The transcript likely mentions a small fraction of the overall testimony and evidence gathered by the DOJ against the disgraced financier, former assistant United States attorney Sarah Krissoff told ABC News.
While the president's pledge to unseal the transcripts has been heralded by his supporters as evidence of his commitment to transparency, Krissoff cautioned that grand jury testimony generally does not shed much light compared to the case file or evidence presented at trial.
"The grand jury testimony is going to be very limited compared to the entire case file," she said. "It's just going to be a real, high-level review – a highlight reel – of what the prosecutors think is important in the case file, which could be hundreds of thousands, if not millions of documents."
Krissoff spent more than a decade as a prosecutor with the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York, which brought criminal cases against both Epstein and Maxwell. Krissoff, now a partner at Cozen O'Connor, did not directly work on either case.
She said that SDNY prosecutors generally do not present firsthand witnesses to the grand jury, instead opting to use federal agents who can summarize evidence and the testimony of others.
"The standard practice, particularly in the SDNY, is to keep the grand jury presentation as slim as possible," Krissoff said. "The goal of the prosecutor is essentially to put in as little evidence as they need in order to get that indictment."
Considering the evidence made public through civil lawsuits and the criminal trial of Maxwell, Krissoff argued that the transcripts are unlikely to change the public understanding of the case.
"I understand that the president wants to appease some folks by disclosing the grand jury testimony, but I just don't see that as really shedding a light on much here," she said.
