This story was originally published by the WND News Center.
There may, or may not, be a lot of new information coming out about convicted sex offender billionaire Jeffrey Epstein and his activities.
Those are suspected to include providing teenage girls to high-profile personalities including celebrities and politicians.
It appears a lot of the details long have been hidden – at least over the last four years when Democrats were in charge of investigatory procedures. The Trump administration first promised to release all the details, then concluded there was nothing more available, then reversed again and now is promising to release what's "credible."
And Trump's appointees just went a step further, promising a conversation with Ghislaine Maxwell, who is serving a 20-year sentence for her involvement as an aide to Epstein, who died in a New York jail in 2019, regarding sexually exploiting underage girls.
A report at the Liberty Daily explains Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche already has contacted Maxwell's legal team to assess her interest in speaking with prosecutors.
Attorney General Pam Bondi has confirmed that President Donald Trump has ordered the release of all credible evidence relating to the case.
She said if Maxwell has information about crimes committed against victims, the FBI and DOJ want to hear it.
Bondi said, "This Department of Justice does not shy away from uncomfortable truths, nor from the responsibility to pursue justice wherever the facts may lead."
Blanche said, "For the first time, the Department of Justice is reaching out to Ghislaine Maxwell to ask: what do you know?"
A report at the Daily Caller News Foundation noted Blanche expects to meet with Maxwell "in the coming days."
House Democrats, who ignored their own party's inaction on the issue for years under Joe Biden, suddenly have begun insisting that Epstein-related information be released.
A commentary from noted opinion-writer Victor Davis Hanson has concluded, "The long and the short of it: There was never a list where he [Epstein] had a list of people who had engaged in pornographic or pedophilic behavior at his various residences. What the list implied was that in 2008, his first trial—and then again a few years later—there were a lot of testimonies in these indictments and convictions and text and evidence that was subpoenaed. So, names came up in text messages, emails, maybe some video on logs on the airplane. So, there's a long list, apparently, of over 170 people."
He noted names already available include Louis Freeh, former FBI director, Leonardo DiCaprio, Bruce Willis, Kevin Spacey, former Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell.
"What am I getting at? All of these people had come in contact with this near-billionaire, Jeffrey Epstein. Apparently, he was close to Harvard University. He had a temporary office there. His modus operandi was to lavish money on political candidates, foundations, universities, celebrities, and entertain. And there was a subset in that group that engaged in pedophilic behavior," he explained.
He said, "I think Donald Trump is going to release all the information that the government has. There'll probably be 150 or 200 names. And we'll let the internet mob or individuals or Freedom of Information requests or lower court judges, they will adjudicate it and we will find out the particular statuses. The vast majority of people will be very innocent, that they didn't do anything wrong. But there will be some people that will have a cast, a shadow of doubt. And we'll have to find out."
He said Trump himself has plausible explanations for the photographs that show him with Epstein, with his decision some years ago to disassociated from Epstein.
"But for right now, I think he's salvaged this problem and aborted a controversy by just saying, 'Get this stuff out there and let the people decide.' It's the way it always should be in a democracy, in an open society," he said.
