A federal judge in Manhattan has denied the government’s request to unseal grand jury transcripts from the sex trafficking case of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell. President Trump had been pushing for the release of the transcripts to deflect from the scrutiny of his own personal relationship with Epstein.

U.S. District Judge Paul A. Engelmayer said in Monday’s ruling, “A member of the public, appreciating that the Maxwell grand jury materials do not contribute to public knowledge, might conclude that the Government’s motion for their unsealing was aimed not at 'transparency' but at diversion — aimed not at full disclosure but at an illusion of such.” The grand jury testimony is a tiny fraction of the hundreds of thousands of pages in the Epstein files, which Trump can decide to release at any time.

Meanwhile, NBC News is reporting that the minimum-security prison camp in Texas where Maxwell was recently transferred has stepped up security, since it’s not designed to house convicted sex offenders.