Attorney General Pam Bondi has asked a court to unseal the Grand Jury testimony related to Jeffrey Epstein’s 2019 re-arrest. This move comes after former President Trump demanded the release of all grand jury testimony, claiming the media frenzy needs to be silenced with facts.
But let’s be clear: if you’re expecting a “client list,” you’ll be disappointed. This isn’t that. The 2019 grand jury wasn’t investigating who Epstein trafficked girls to—it was investigating why the U.S. government conspired with him in 2008 to grant an absurd plea deal that gave him and his associates blanket immunity for past and future crimes.
That immunity deal, made under the Bush administration and hidden from the victims, was later ruled a violation of their legal rights. Unsealing the 2019 testimony might expose who enabled that deal—who silenced the victims, who made the immunity stick, and who kept Epstein protected for more than a decade. But it won’t tell us anything about what he was up to between 2008 and 2019, when he was cavorting with Bill Gates, Bill Clinton, Leon Black, Larry Summers, and others.
That’s the inconvenient gap the media isn’t addressing. Instead, we’re getting rehashed narratives. The New York Times ran a piece on Sunday emphasizing that one of Epstein’s accusers named Trump in her testimony. We knew this. She had previously stated that she didn’t have sex with Trump and that he “didn’t act inappropriate” toward her. But the Times still saw fit to recycle the association—because narrative, not new evidence, drives the news cycle.
Meanwhile, the Wall Street Journal gave a platform to Epstein’s attorney, who argued that Epstein acted entirely alone and that thousands of victims were harmed only by him—not by anyone in his powerful network. It’s a sleight of hand dressed as accountability. No mention of the immunity. No curiosity about the co-conspirators. And curiously, no acknowledgment that as Epstein’s lawyer, he’s still bound by attorney-client privilege—raising the question of what he’s omitting, and why.
Investigative journalist Darryl Cooper laid out the major questions in a three-hour interview with Tucker Carlson a few days ago, and we cannot recommend enough that you watch it. It helps clarify the Epstein questions we still can’t answer—and won’t be able to from this Grand Jury transcript.
Namely:
- Why was Jeffrey Epstein—an unqualified 20-something with no college degree—hired to teach at the elite Dalton School by former Attorney General Bill Barr’s father, who just happened to write pornographic science fiction and had ties to intelligence circles from previous employment?
- Why did Ghislaine Maxwell’s father, Robert Maxwell—a known Mossad asset—receive a state funeral in Israel with full honors, buried on the Mount of Olives among national heroes? What, if any, influence did he have on his daughter’s career and why did he introduce his daughter to Epstein in the first place?
- Why did Les Wexner, one of the wealthiest men in America, hand over complete financial control of his fortune to Epstein—with no plausible explanation? Why has the Justice Department never scrutinized this relationship?
- Why were major political and business figures meeting privately with Epstein after his conviction—including Bill Gates?
- Why were the Podestas and other Epstein-adjacent figures repeatedly linked to disturbing child-related imagery and themes, yet shielded from serious media scrutiny?
- Why did so many intelligence-adjacent figures orbit Epstein’s life, and why was he allowed to operate internationally for years?
- Why don’t we know more about Labor Secretary Alex Acosta’s admission that he was told Epstein “belonged to intelligence” and to back off?
- Why was Epstein given a sweetheart plea deal in the first place—one that not only gave him minimal jail time, the right to come and go as he pleased, but also granted immunity to unnamed co-conspirators for future crimes?
- Why were we told there was no surveillance footage from the night of his “suicide”—only to now receive what appears to be heavily edited, contextless clips years later?
The Grand Jury transcript might tell us which U.S. officials helped cover for Epstein.
But it won’t tell us why—and it definitely won’t expose the network that empowered, protected, and ultimately buried him.
