Manhattan judge denies Trump admin bid
to unseal Ghislaine Maxwell grand jury transcripts
Posted By: FlyRight, 8/17/2025 12:03:25 PM
A Manhattan federal judge on Monday denied the Trump administration’s bid to unseal grand jury documents in the case against dead sex predator Jeffrey Epstein’s accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell. US District Judge Paul Engelmayer said the transcripts revealed “next to nothing new” — in a scathing decision that ripped the Justice Department for overhyping the files, going so far as to suggest it was all a “diversion.” “There is no ‘there’ there,” Engelmayer wrote in his searing 31-page ruling finding that the DOJ failed to make a compelling case to disclose the grand jury testimony, which typically remains sealed.
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Manhattan judge denies Trump admin bid
to unseal Ghislaine Maxwell grand jury transcripts 11 replies
to unseal Ghislaine Maxwell grand jury transcripts 11 replies
A Manhattan federal judge on Monday denied the Trump administration’s bid to unseal grand jury documents in the case against dead sex predator Jeffrey Epstein’s accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell.
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Obama is the New Nixon
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Barack Obama is our modern Nixon figure. Worse than Nixon, actually.
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