President Trump has tried to subdue conspiracy theories by pushing to disclose the transcripts from the cases of Jeffrey Epstein, who abused teenage girls, and Ghislaine Maxwell, who assisted him.

Transcripts of grand jury testimony that led to sex trafficking charges against Jeffrey Epstein's longtime confidante Ghislaine Maxwell shouldn't be released, a judge ruled Monday in a stinging decision suggesting the Trump administration's real motive for wanting them unsealed was to fool the public with an ''illusion'' of transparency.