🧵UPDATE RE: Unsealing of federal grand jury transcripts in United States v. Ghislaine Maxwell (SDNY), United States v. Jeffrey Epstein (SDNY), and United States v. Jeffrey Epstein (SDFL).
On July 22, counsel for Maxwell, one of whom also represents Hillary Clinton in Trump's civil RICO case against her, filed a letter motion requesting access to the grand jury transcripts prior to submitting their response to the DOJ's request for their unsealing.
Today, July 23, Judge Engelmayer denied that motion.
"It is black-letter law that defendants generally are not entitled to access grand jury materials."
I'm sure investigators attempted to have conversations with her, at least initially, but she refused or played ignorant, and those conversations went nowhere.
One year ago, thanks to legislation passed in FL, over 150 pages of grand jury transcripts and videos of witness interviews regarding the 2008 state investigation of Jeffrey Epstein were made public.
In June of that same year, Epstein pleaded guilty to the state charges: one count of soliciting prostitution and one count of soliciting prostitution from someone under the age of 18. He is sentenced to register as a sex offender, pay restitution, and serve 18 months in jail... but was allowed to go to his office during the day.
Breaking up the team Trump has in the DoJ will slow/cripple the many key operations they have underway such as anti-CCP, election integrity, public corruption, swamp draining, human trafficking, deportations, etc.
I think some of the malign operators are seeking to stop one or more of these efforts, but others are simply low integrity grifters who fleece MAGA for views and clicks using a set of high engagement conspiracy theories.
They emotionally manipulate their audiences/followers with fear mongering and outrage bait, feeding them bad information (mis/dis/mal-info) and conspiracy theory propaganda.
They lead their audience to believe they are more “red pilled” or “awake” than others.