Glenn Thrush, The New York Times:
Well, I think it’s purely for political reasons. There are not important investigative reasons. In fact, it’s coming around 10 days after Pam Bondi closed down the investigation altogether. So it represents a bit of a reversal of course.
Let’s talk a little bit about what is available. First of all, we don’t know which grand jury we’re talking about. Is it Jeffrey Epstein’s grand jury which was convened prior to his death, his hanging, or was it Ms. Maxwell, his associate’s, which was convened in 2020 or 2021 and ultimately led to her conviction?
There was also some grand jury activity in Florida and perhaps in some other states, I was told. So we don’t know where they’re going to release this testimony from. The other question is, how do they define pertinent? We don’t know. Is that just relating to Epstein? But the deeper question here is, what are we even talking about?
These are transcripts that are very narrowly tied to the Jeffrey Epstein case. The real trove of documents, the ones that Bondi, Kash Patel, the FBI director, Dan Bongino, his number two, have referred to is this group of documents, thousands and thousands of documents and videos that are stored in Winchester, Virginia, outside of D.C., that they have spent the better part of three months poring through anyway.
So in general, I would just say there is a great deal less here than meets the eye.