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Snippet of Article: "...The Trump administration is now considering whether to release the transcript from Blanche’s meetings with Maxwell last month..."
Source: www.independent.co.ukSnippet of Article: "..."Sending Donald Trump's personal lawyer, Todd Blanche, to interview Ghislaine Maxwell while she's in prison, a woman who's been convicted of abusing people, to offer some kind of corrupt deal so that she can exonerate Donald Trump just stinks of high corruption," Schumer said in a video released on social media. ..."
Source: www.newsmax.comSnippet of Article: "...Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche is expected to meet with Ghislaine Maxwell on Thursday, two people familiar with the meeting tell CNN, as President Donald Trump continues to face backlash over the Jeffrey Epstein saga. ..."
Source: www.cnn.comSnippet of Article: "...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. ..."
Source: abcnews.go.comSnippet of Article: "...The decision is the White House’s latest attack on the media outlet for its recent report tying the president to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein...."
Source: www.washingtonpost.comSnippet of Article: "...(NewsNation) — Ghislaine Maxwell, the accomplice and former girlfriend of Jeffrey Epstein, is willing to testify before Congress regarding her role in facilitating sex trafficking of underage girls, sources told the Daily Mail.
“Despite the rumors, Ghislaine was never offered any kind of plea deal,” a source close to Maxwell told the outlet. “She would be more than happy to sit before Congress and tell her story.”
Maxwell, 63, is currently serving a 20-year sentence for helping Epstein sexually exploit and abuse underage girls. Epstein was found dead in his jail cell of an apparent suicide in 2019. He was awaiting trial for allegedly orchestrating a child sex trafficking ring along with Maxwell. ..."
Snippet of Article: "... The Justice Department and the FBI released a memo last week concluding there was no evidence that Epstein had a list of powerful men who participated in his alleged underworld of sex trafficking and pedophilia. It also said the disgraced former financier died by suicide and was not murdered in his New York jail cell.
Yet after years of big promises to the president’s base, the memo failed to produce a smoking gun, undercutting Trump and his team’s own words. And MAGA world isn’t happy, pitting the president’s closest allies against one another.
With Trump defending the findings, the situation has set up an unprecedented loyalty test between the president..."
Snippet of Article: "...Attorney General Pam Bondi said on Fox Business Friday morning she received a “truckload” of unreleased documents related to disgraced financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein—the same comment she made more than a week ago—but provided no timeline about when these documents could be made public, weeks after the department’s much-hyped release of Epstein-related files was largely considered a dud. ...“Not only is Pam Bondi stonewalling the Epstein files’ release… she just punished Ghislaine Maxwell’s prosecutor,” the Judiciary Democrats posted. Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., who previously slammed the February release of Epstein files as a “complete disappointment,” said Tuesday on X it is “alarming that Congress has gotten almost no communication from the DOJ or updates regarding the matter other than ‘reviewing documents.’”"
Source: www.forbes.comSnippet of Article: "'I think that those lists need to be released to the American people'...called out the U.S. Department of Justice's (DOJ's) silence over the release of deceased pedophile Jeffrey Epstein's full files and urged U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi to publicize the remaining documents. ...I'm very frustrated, just like many Americans are. I think that those lists need to be released to the American people. That's really up to the decision of Attorney General Pam Bondi," Luna said. "I can tell you that as a member of Congress, we have not really gotten much communication from the Department of Justice." ...Bondi told Fox's Sean Hannity that the DOJ officially received "a truckload of evidence," adding the DOJ was combing through the documents. It is unclear when the DOJ plans to release the remaining files."
Source: www.wnd.comSnippet of Article: "...Attorney General Pam Bondi revealed Thursday that “thousands of pages” of documents in the FBI’s investigation into the sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein were withheld from her. And she’s demanding that they be turned over by Friday morning. Bondi, 59, disclosed in a letter to FBI Director Kash Patel a tipster said that all but “approximately 200 pages of documents” were still being kept secret at the FBI’s office in New York — despite her repeated requests for the “full” Epstein files. ..."
Source: nypost.comSnippet of Article: "...Conservative political commentators were spotted at the White House holding binders that read “The Epstein Files” hours after Attorney General Pam Bondi promised to release documents about wealthy financier Jeffrey Epstein, who sexually abused underage girls...Among those holding the binders was political commentator Rogan O’Handley, also known as DC Draino.
Bondi said Wednesday on Fox News that the documents would include flight logs and “a lot of names,” though it was unclear whether there would be details not already publicly known."
Snippet of Article: "...Elon Musk told Tucker Carlson might be the real reason why the political class will be ready to hurl everything they can to derail this nomination: the Epstein Files will be made public. Some very prominent names donate and support Democrats on those lists. Mr. Patel said he would make all those files public—the Democrats’ dirty laundry would be for all to see. ..."
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