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US President Donald Trump says he has ordered the Justice Department to release additional documents related to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
"Based on the ridiculous amount of disclosures regarding Jeffrey Epstein, I have asked Attorney General Pam Bondi to present any relevant Grand Jury evidence, subject to the Court's approval," Trump said in a post on social media.
It is unclear whether Trump is authorizing the release of these documents or when that might happen, although such a move would typically require court approval.
The development comes after continued pressure from some of Trump's most loyal supporters, who are demanding further clarification in the Epstein case.
Attorney General Pam Bondi, minutes after President Trump's order, said that "we are ready to send the court tomorrow to open the grand jury transcripts."
A grand jury is a group of citizens assembled by a prosecutor to determine whether there is sufficient evidence to bring charges. In legal terms, it determines whether there is probable cause to believe that a crime has been committed.
Grand jury verdicts must be tested before a regular jury in court in order for a suspect to be convicted of a crime.
It is not clear whether the president's post was about grand jury testimony from the first batch of cases involving Epstein in the early 2000s, or from the federal charges filed in 2019.
Several grand jury documents have already been released regarding the 2006 Florida case.
Bondi announced last week that the US Justice Department did not believe Epstein had a so-called client list that could implicate high-profile associates and that he killed himself, despite conspiracy speculation about his death.
This came after Bondi had announced that he was ready to announce major revelations about the case, including "many names" and "many flight logs", a reminder to those who traveled with the financier or who visited his private islands where many of his alleged crimes are said to have taken place.
Conservative commentator Charlie Kirk, who has been critical of the administration's handling of the files in recent days, praised Trump's action.
"This is something we've been talking about for a long time, and really a power for the grassroots," he said.
Epstein died in a New York jail cell in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges. His death in prison came more than a decade after his conviction for soliciting prostitution from a minor, for which he was registered as a sex offender. /Adapted from BBC/
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