Attorney General Pam Bondi has cited the release of the 2006 Florida transcripts in her request for grand jury materials from a federal court.

The Epstein case remains a focal point of attention due to questions about accountability, possible accomplices, and adequacy of prior investigations.

For years, MAGA influencers and conspiracists, two of whom now run the FBI, maintained that public disclosure of government files about Jeffrey Epstein would expose a secret criminal network of pedophiles in the highest rungs of society (probably all Democrats).

Martin Luther King Jr.’s daughter on Monday called for the Trump administration to release the “Epstein files.” Bernice King, the same day the administration released records on the FBI’s surveillance of her father, requested more transparency on an issue that the president has been trying leave behind him: his ties to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

The attorney general has come under fire over her handling of the Jeffrey Epstein controversy, with a recent poll showing her approval dropping.

And speaking of going to court, Trump said Thursday night he will sue Rupert Murdoch and “his third rate newspaper,” the Wall Street Journal, for publishing what Trump says is a “FAKE” letter. The Journal reported that Trump sent the letter to Epstein in 2003 to be included in a commemorative book for Epstein’s 50th birthday.

The government will have to meet a high legal bar for the court to agree that any of the grand jury documents should be released—and those materials could still be disappointing.

The Justice Department this week fired Maurene Comey, a federal prosecutor in New York who was involved in cases against Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.