Recommendations of the Editorial team
The Trump government seems to be in a dead end again. In your desperate attempt In the years of saga to find something like a degree.
Judge calls the application “hypocritical”
On Monday, US district judge Paul Engelmayer from Southern District of New York rejected the arrangement of the Ministry of Justice to publish the Great Jury protocol in connection with the prosecution of Epstein’s complicity Ghislaine Maxwell. Maxwell is currently in a 20-year prison sentence due to human trafficking. Engelmayer not only tore up the core of the application. But indicated in sharp words that Trump and his allies did not want to publish the files in the interest of real information, but as a staging. To silence further questions about the case.
Engelmayer described the government arguments for the release of the protocols as “hypocritical”. And came to the conclusion: “A member of the public, that recognizes that the Maxwell-Großjury materials do not contribute to public knowledge, could come to the conclusion that the government’s application does not aim at ‘transparency’, but for distraction. Not on complete disclosure. But to the illusion of it.” Therefore, he will not allow the “extraordinary step” to release the Großjury protocols. Those that usually remain secret to protect the integrity of the process. And only under rare, strictly defined circumstances.
“The approval of the government’s application would inflate the ‘special circumstances’ doctrine. Which has so far only justified a disclosure in a tiny number of cases, all with unique statements of eyewitnesses about events of obvious public or historical importance,” said Engelmayer in his 31-page decision. He also noted that the materials were “redundant for the evidence in the Maxwell process”. In a known case, Großjury protocols were published to counter allegations of racist bias. Namely, the documents in which jury decided not to complain about the police officer Darren Wilson because of the killing of 18-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri.
MAGA base demands alleged “Epstein customer list”
The Trump government has long been looking for ways to appease its Maga base, which is believing for conspiracy. She believes that the White House is working on the release of an Epstein “customer list” of powerful elites, which he may have blackmailed with information about their sexual activities with underage girls. (The existence of this “list” is pure, unfounded speculation.) The same voters have long been expecting revelations about Epstein’s death in 2019 in a New York prison that was classified as suicide.
But last month, Ministry of Justice and FBI shocked right-wing Epstein conscientious theorists with a short memo. It said that there was neither evidence of a customer list nor for a murder of Epstein as part of a major cover -up. This explanation was all the more explosive after Justice Minister Pam Bondi claimed in February to have an Epstein customer list on her desk. And then distributed files with the inscription “The Epstein Files: Phase 1” to Trump-close social media influencers. However, these turned out to be publicly accessible documents. Among them Epstein’s address book.
Trump loses support in his own ranks
The repellent July memo and Trump’s later attempts to browse Epstein questions into press conferences led to even greater outrage in right-wing circles. Many Maga supporters demanded Bondi’s resignation. And even criticized the president. He broke an election promise. Trump’s representation of the Epstein scandal as “deception” staged by the Democrats was little appealed. The debate only directed Trump’s long, well -documented relationship with Epstein. The “Wall Street Journal” published articles with new details about their close connection. It also emerged that Bondi Trump had already informed Epstein in May-contrary to his Dementis-that he was named Epstein in FBI files. However, naming does not automatically mean misconduct.
Since then, the Maxwell government seems to be considered a possible way out of the ongoing criticism of Trump’s Epstein compounds and the absence of further charges. At the end of July, Maxwell was surprisingly moved to a women’s prison with a minimal security level in Texas. One in which prisoners are mainly located because of non -violent or business offenses. In interviews in the same month with Vice-Justice Minister Todd Blanche she is said to have said that she never observed problematic behavior at Trump. Maxwell contested her conviction in front of the Supreme Court. And offered to testify to the congress under certain conditions, including formal immunity. Trump has not ruled out a pardon.
Rights attack Democrats – critics see “distraction”
While the government is still looking for a way through this notorious human dealer, the right circles accused the democrats of hindering the judiciary. Chaya Raichik, operator of the anti-LGBTQ account “LIBS of TIKTOK”, did it. “Obama-named US district judge Paul Engelmayer rejected the Trump government’s application to publish the Großjury documents against Ghislaine Maxwell.” (Raichik, who was embarrassed in the “Epstein Files: Phase 1” affair, has largely held back to Epstein since then.) An anonymous Maga conspiracy theorist also pointed out on X that Engelmayer was an Obama harvest. He wrote: “What does that tell you?”
The debate about Engelmayer’s decision was overshadowed by the news that Trump wanted to send the National Guard to Washington, DC. Supposedly because of rampant crime. Although violent crime there has been at the lowest level since pandemic. Critics called this measure on social media another “distraction”. The distraction of a president who has been trying to distract the focus of Epstein for over a month.