The president said on Truth Social he had authorized the justice department to seek the public release of the materials, which are under seal, citing “the ridiculous amount of publicity given to Jeffrey Epstein”.
Bondi, who has weathered days of accusations by Trump’s far-right supporters that she had mismanaged and failed to deliver on promises to release previously secret documents about the Epstein case, responded to Trump’s post with a post of her own that vowed to comply with the directive.
Grand jury transcripts won’t necessarily include the clients and associates. The evidence presented to a grand jury is relevant to Epstein’s guilt, something we already know.
This is an attempt by Trump to appear transparent, move the goalposts, and then claim that critics can never be satisfied.
He wants to get some stochastic terrorism rolling against any of the people on the grand jury who had the sheer unmitigated gall to indict him over literally anything.
That’s it. That’s the whole story. He wants to silence opponents and anyone who criticizes him in any way whatsoever.
No, there’s a bit more to it than that. The whole point is stochastic terrorism is that it’s not obvious to outsiders. It’s coded, so that there is some plausible deniability when violence actually happens.
But it depends on the perpetrators to read the code correctly. Trump has spent a lot of time cultivating a group of folks, who did political violence on his behalf on Jan 6, were prosecuted for it, and then Trump pardoned them all. But part of his appeal to them is his ability to keep promises on things they care about. Now that Trump is backing away on the Epstein stuff, he doesn’t want one of these loonies to decide that Trump was the problem all along. He is doing just enough to ensure that his brown shirts don’t turn on him.
Uh… no…? The whole point of stochastic terrorism is to incite other people to violent acts. Doesn’t matter if it’s obvious or not. “Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?”
It’s immaterial if people not in the in-group recognize it as a call to violence.
No, you misunderstand me. Trump has been inciting his brown shirts to do political violence. But if he doesn’t handle the Epstein thing correctly, these people (who are already itching to instigate a civil war) might just target him first…
I like how he’s doing this just because it sounds like a dead man is getting more publicity than Donny.
He is in a panic, trying to cool his base with this nothing-burger. Not going to work.
