CNN senior legal analyst Elie Honig argued on Thursday that the grand jury testimony related to the investigation into sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein that is set to be released by the Department of Justice (DOJ) will contain limited information.
President Donald Trump instructed Attorney General Pam Bondi on Thursday to receive court approval to release “any and all pertinent grand jury testimony.” Honig said on “CNN NewsNight with Abby Phillip” that the grand jury transcripts are just a tiny portion of the Epstein files that will provide limited information from a handful of witnesses.
“We know from the FBI’s memo last week that the entirety of the Epstein files is 300 gigabytes of information. I looked it up, I talked to a tech guy, that’s equal to about 100,000 ebooks. So think about a book [that is] 300 pages. One hundred thousand of those. That’s how much information is in the entire Epstein files. The grand jury transcripts means the written transcript that the court reporter takes of whoever went into the grand jury and testified. So already, you are leaving out tons of documents.,” Honig said.
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Honig added that most witnesses do not even testify before a grand jury, making the potential release of the transcripts even more limited. The attorney general also needs to receive the approval from a court, which will delay the process of releasing the documents, he said.
“[Prosecutors] just talk to you in a conference room not in a grand jury. So we’re talking about 1% [or] 2%,” Honig continued.
Trump and the DOJ have been under pressure to release the entirety of the Epstein files after the agency, along with the FBI, concluded on July 6 that there is no evidence of a so-called “client list” or that Epstein had not died by suicide. The Democrats attempted to pass a resolution that would force Bondi to release all of the files, though House and Senate Republicans blocked these efforts in a procedural vote.
Bondi alluded to having the so-called “client list” on her desk during an interview with Fox News in February, though the DOJ and the White House have since argued that she referred to a wide range of documents related to several cases.
In July 2019, Epstein had been under psychological evaluation after he had attempted suicide inside his cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center. Throughout the night of his death on Aug. 10, 2019, correctional officers Tova Noel and Michael Thomas did not perform the required 12:00 a.m., 3:00 a.m. and 5:00 a.m. counts and completed a form falsely saying that they did.
The DOJ dropped the charges against them in May 2021 after prosecutors filed a motion stating that they had upheld their deferred prosecution agreement, which required them to admit their guilt, perform 100 hours of community service and cooperate with the DOJ’s investigation into Epstein’s death.
Dr. Michael Baden, a forensic pathologist hired by Epstein’s brother, told “Fox & Friends” in October 2019 that Epstein’s autopsy was more consistent with homicidal strangulation than suicidal hanging.
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