(Washington) The United States Pam Bondi General Prosecutor is to ask for the lifting of legal secrecy for documents on the financier Jeffrey Epstein, accused of sexual crimes, a case that has embarrassed President Donald Trump on Friday.
This is the day after the publication by the Wall Street Journal of an explosive article attributing to the New York billionaire who became president of the United States the writing, in the early 2000s, of a health letter to the attention of Jeffrey Epstein for his 50th anniversary.
Donald Trump, furious, announced on Thursday evening his intention to file a complaint against the daily life and his owner Magnat of the Rupert Murdoch media. He also asked his general prosecutor to make all the “relevant” testimonies of the legal proceedings concerning Jeffrey Epstein, who died in 2019 before his trial.
Pam Bondi has in the process confirmed to be “ready” to, as of Friday, ask a court the lifting of judicial secrecy on testimonies carried out in this case before a large jury. In American justice, this collective of citizens chosen at random occurs during the investigation and reviews evidence and testimonies to decide a possible indictment.
The decision to publish testimonies will be “subject to the court agreement,” said Donald Trump on Thursday evening.
But these documents “will only concern Epstein and (Ghislaine) Maxwell”, his partner already condemned, and no other names, said on X Daniel Goldman, an elected democrat and former federal prosecutor.
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Jeffrey Epstein and Ghilslaine Maxwell
The American president has been struggling for more than a week of accusations brought by some of his own supporters who accuse his government of putting the cover too quickly on this case.
“Stupids”
The death of Jeffrey Epstein, found hanged in his cell in New York in 2019 before being tried, fueled a number of unbeknip theories that he was murdered to prevent revelations involving leading personalities.
Figures close to Donald Trump’s “Make America Great Again” movement has been campaigning for years for the publication of a supposed list of Customers of Jeffrey Epstein.
But ten days ago, the Department of Justice and the Federal Police, the FBI, established in a common report that there was no evidence of the existence of such a list or blackmail towards certain personalities.
Ads that have led to a surge of furious messages coming from “Maga” accounts on social networks.
Donald Trump openly annoyed it and described this fringe as “stupid” supporters and asked them to move on.
Sketch
But the article published Thursday evening by the Wall Street Journal is not likely to bury the case.
The daily says that, for a guest book intended for Jeffrey Epstein in 2003 on the occasion of his 50e Birthday, his partner Ghislaine Maxwell had requested tens of his relatives, including Donald Trump, then real estate magnate.
The letter in the name of Donald Trump has several dactylographed text lines surrounded by a sketch of naked woman, apparently traced to the marker, according to the newspaper, who says he saw the letter but does not reproduce it.
Donald Trump quickly described the article as “false, malicious and defamatory” and assured that he was going to prosecute the newspaper “quickly”, his group News Corp and the boss of the latter, Rupert Murdoch, a curator who also owns Fox News.
