President Donald Trump has increasingly taken to proclaiming the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking case controversy a “hoax” planted by Democrats — but Attorney General Pam Bondi and her associates just told a court that wasn’t the case at all.

According to The Daily Beast, a late-night Justice Department filing signed by Bondi and Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche pressed the case to a Manhattan-based judge why the grand jury documents from the Epstein case should be unsealed — and in doing so made a statement contradicting Trump’s dismissals.

“Attention given to the Epstein and Maxwell cases has recently intensified in the wake of the July 6, 2025 Memorandum announcing the conclusions of the Government’s review into the investigation,” stated the message to the court. “The instant motions for unsealing are consistent with the fundamental purposes set forth in that memorandum given the magnitude and abhorrence of Epstein’s crimes: to provide information to the public while remaining sensitive to protecting the rights of victims.”

The idea of further transparency in the case being in the public interest stands in stark contrast with Trump’s insistence that the press stop talking about the issue, and his insinuation — despite he and many of his high-ranking executive officials promoting the case — that the controversy was cooked up by Democrats to make him look bad.

The Trump base has long seen the Epstein affair, in which young girls were trafficked at “parties” the highly-connected wealth manager set up for himself, as a key to exposing a vast ring of sex offenders among rich and powerful politicians and celebrities.

Bondi initially claimed the so-called Epstein “client list” was on her desk for review, but earlier this month caused a firestorm of controversy and set the administration scrambling after admitting there was no “client list” in the first place.