Elie Honig Calls Out Trump’s Order To Release Epstein Grand Jury Testimony: ‘You Are Leaving Out Tons of Documents’ 

CNN Senior Legal Analyst Elie Honig pooh-poohed President Donald Trump’s pledge to release grand jury testimony in the Jeffrey Epstein case, saying that such a release would represent a minuscule portion of the Epstein files.

On Thursday, a seemingly exasperated Trump said he will direct Attorney General Pam Bondi to release grand jury testimony given regarding the dead child sex trafficker. Earlier in the day, The Wall Street Journal published a story stating that Trump sent Epstein a birthday letter in 2003 that featured a drawing of a nude woman and a strange, imaginary dialogue between the two men. The president denies the report and said he will sue the publication.

Shortly after the story dropped, Trump wrote on Truth Social that because of “the ridiculous amount of publicity given to Jeffrey Epstein,” he ordered Bondi “to produce any and all pertinent Grand Jury Testimony, subject to Court approval.”

Later on CNN NewsNight, Honig, a former federal prosecutor, explained why releasing only grand jury testimony would be a far cry from the full document dump some in the Trump administration promised.

“What Donald Trump said to do there is not to turn over all the Epstein files,” he noted. “I really wanna make sure people understand the context here of what he did say he wanted released, because it is a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of those files.”

Honig went on to say that the FBI stated that the size of the Epstein files is about 300 gigabytes.

“I talked to a tech guy,” he added. “That’s equal to about 100,000 ebooks, ok? So, think about a book, 300 pages. A hundred thousand of those. That’s how much information’s in the entire Epstein file. 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. Most witnesses, as a federal prosecutor, don’t even go into the grand jury. They just talk to you in a conference room, not in the grand jury. So we’re talking about 1%, 2%. And it’s not as if Pam Bondi can just release this stuff tomorrow. She has to go into a court. She has to explain to and convince a judge this stuff needs to be turned over.”

Watch above via CNN.