Attorney General Pam Bondi informed President Donald Trump that his name appears “on multiple occasions” in the files of the controversial case against pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, since last May.
Citing senior officials in the Republican administration, the WSJ states that Attorney General Pam Bondi and her second-in-command, Todd Blanche, informed President Trump that his name appeared in the documents of the case against Jeffrey Epstein that have not been made public, along with those of other well-known figures.
Trump denied last week that Bondi had informed him whether his name appeared in the files.
In the “routine briefing,” where this was not the main topic, Bondi and her team reportedly informed Trump that the files contained what they considered “unverified rumors about many people, including Trump, who had had contact with Epstein in the past.”
According to the WSJ, one of the sources familiar with the documents stated that they “include hundreds of other names.”
Justice Department (DOJ) officials also reportedly informed Trump that they did not plan to release more information about the case. After confirming in early July that there is no evidence of the existence of a “client list” that the magnate allegedly blackmailed. And they affirmed that the pedophile died by suicide in a federal prison in 2019.
These findings have provoked the anger of members of the Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement against the Republican administration, which had promised during the campaign to release said list, a supposed roster of Epstein’s accomplices that would include influential celebrities and politicians, which has been at the center of numerous far-right conspiracy theories for years.
The controversy over the case was reignited last week with the publication by The Wall Street Journal of an alleged “obscene” letter supposedly sent by Trump to Epstein during the years they were friends, something the president has categorically denied, calling the note “fake” and suing the newspaper over it.
A federal judge in Florida denied Wednesday a request by the Trump administration to release the transcripts of the grand jury investigation into Jeffrey Epstein, hindering President Trump’s efforts to mitigate criticism from many of his supporters.
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