Bondi's announcement came after an explosive Wall Street Journal report about a letter Trump sent to Epstein in 2003.

Attorney General Pam Bondi responded on social media Thursday evening, saying, "we are ready to move the court tomorrow to unseal the grand jury transcripts."

In a move that may quell much of the criticism of the handling of the Jeffrey Epstein case -- both inside his administration and among the GOP base -- President Donald Trump announced late Thursday that he was ordering the grand jury testimony in the case unsealed.

The Wall Street Journal reported the text of Trump's letter to Epstein was inside a hand-drawn outline of a nude woman.

Trump promised a lawsuit after The Wall Street Journal described a sexually suggestive letter that the newspaper says bore Trump’s name and was included in a 2003 album for Epstein’s 50th birthday. Trump denied writing the letter, calling it “false, malicious, and defamatory.”

Trump has tried to tamp down criticism of the decision by Attorney General Pam Bondi to keep documents related to Epstein from the public.

A former aide to President Donald Trump urged him to dump the Jeffrey Epstein scandal into Attorney General Pam Bondi's lap and position her as a possible scapegoat. The attorney general ignited a MAGA firestorm by unceremoniously declaring the disgraced financier had killed himself and had not kept a "client list,

Bondi's response was made despite promises from her and Trump during the election that had raised the expectations of conservative influencers and conspiracy theorists, who insist that there is a 'lis