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Legal professional Basic Pam Bondi is dealing with scrutiny for remarks she made this yr about Jeffrey Epstein’s intercourse trafficking case after the Division of Justice and FBI introduced their Epstein inquiry to an abrupt shut over the weekend.
The White Home was grilled by reporters Monday about Bondi’s remarks, which appeared to contradict a memo the DOJ and FBI launched Monday stating that their Epstein evaluation was full and that that they had nothing additional to share with the general public about it.
Fox Information’s Peter Doocy requested White Home press secretary Karoline Leavitt about Bondi apparently confirming in February {that a} nonpublic listing of Epstein’s sex-trafficking shoppers existed.
“She was saying the whole lot of all the paperwork, all the paper, in relation to Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes, that is what the legal professional common was referring to, and I will let her communicate for that,” Leavitt mentioned.
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U.S. Legal professional Basic Pam Bondi speaks alongside President Donald Trump on current Supreme Courtroom rulings within the briefing room on the White Home on June 27, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Joe Raedle/Getty Photos)
Doocy’s query was a reference to Fox Information’s John Roberts asking Bondi throughout a tv interview if the DOJ deliberate to launch a “listing of Epstein’s shoppers.”
“It is sitting on my desk proper now to evaluation,” Bondi mentioned on the time. “That is been a directive by President Trump. I am reviewing that.”
Requested about Bondi’s prior remarks, a DOJ spokesperson pointed to Leavitt’s remark and mentioned the Trump administration has been extra clear than its predecessor.
“We have delivered extra transparency in 6 months than the Biden administration did in 4 years,” the spokesperson informed Fox Information Digital.
The newly launched DOJ and FBI memo quashed theories a couple of nonpublic Epstein listing, which has been promoted for years by a vocal faction of Trump supporters.
“This systematic evaluation revealed no incriminating ‘consumer listing,’” the memo learn.
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Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell (Getty Photos)
Bondi first drew criticism in February after teasing the discharge of damaging proof associated to Epstein. The legal professional common, nevertheless, did not ship any new info to the general public and blamed the FBI’s New York discipline workplace for withholding “1000’s of pages of paperwork” from her.
On the time, the Trump administration invited a gaggle of right-wing social media influencers to the White Home and gave them binders of what gave the impression to be a primary take a look at the extremely anticipated Epstein-related materials.
Broadly circulated images confirmed the White Home guests smiling with the binders, which had been labeled “categorised” and the “Esptein Recordsdata: Part 1.” The Epstein info, later revealed on-line, was largely a compilation of public court docket paperwork.
A few of the identical influencers took to X to specific incredulity over the brand new memo and name for Bondi’s substitute.
“I am speculated to be on trip, but it surely’s time to fireplace Pam Bondi,” Liz Wheeler wrote.
Mike Cernovich wrote that “no one may even perceive” why the FBI and DOJ put out the memo and that “everyone seems to be p*****.”
Rogan O’Handley known as the memo a “shameful chapter in our nation’s historical past.”
In response to a query from one other reporter, Leavitt mentioned nonpublic materials was too express to launch.
“There was materials they didn’t launch as a result of, frankly, it was extremely graphic, and it contained little one pornography, which isn’t one thing that is applicable for public consumption,” Leavitt mentioned.
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Professional-Trump political commentator Rogan O’Handley, also referred to as DC Draino, from left, social media content material creator Chaya Raichik and conservative political commentator Liz Wheeler maintain up binders with a canopy titled “The Epstein Recordsdata: Part 1,” with Jack Posobiec on the White Home, Thursday, Feb. 27, 2025, in Washington. (AP Picture/Evan Vucci)
The DOJ and FBI’s memo additionally reiterated what the FBI and DOJ inspector common confirmed in 2023, that Epstein died by suicide.
Following the botched rollout of the information, Bondi raised eyebrows as soon as once more by claiming to reporters in Could that there have been “tens of 1000’s of movies of Epstein with youngsters or little one porn, and there are tons of of victims.”
However public court docket filings and the newly launched memo don’t corroborate that assertion. The memo said, nevertheless, that “information referring to Epstein” included “ten thousand downloaded movies and pictures of unlawful little one intercourse abuse materials and different pornography.”
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Epstein was indicted in 2019 for allegedly recruiting dozens of ladies and women as younger as 14 and fascinating in sexual relations with them at his properties in Manhattan, Palm Seashore, and elsewhere. He allegedly sexually abused a few of them.
Authorities confirmed that Epstein hanged himself in his jail cell in New York Metropolis in 2019, earlier than he might stand trial. His affiliate Ghislaine Maxwell was convicted of conspiring to sexually abuse minors and sentenced to 22 years in jail.
