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After days of blowback over the Epstein files, Trump publicly told the Justice Department to seek release of grand jury testimony, a move that looked less like a confident transparency push than a panic-button response to political damage. The ask itself may not satisfy anyone, but it made the administration’s earlier reluctance even more conspicuous.
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After days of blowback over the Epstein files, Trump publicly told the Justice Department to seek release of grand jury testimony, a move that looked less like a confident transparency push than a panic-button response to political damage. The ask itself may not satisfy anyone, but it made the administration’s earlier reluctance even more conspicuous.
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