President Donald Trump exploded with anger when a reporter brought up Jeffrey Epstein during a Cabinet meeting at the White House.
The question was directed at Attorney General Pam Bondi, who has been under pressure from Trump supporters over how the administration handled the release of Epstein-related documents.
But before Bondi could say a word, Trump cut in.
“Are you still talking about Jeffery Epstein?” Trump snapped. “This guy’s been talked about for years.”
“We have Texas, we have this, we have all of the things, and are people still talking about this guy, this creep? That is unbelievable,” he added.
Clearly irritated, he turned to Bondi: “Do you want to waste the time, and you feel like answering?”
Bondi said she would, but Trump kept going.
“I can’t believe you’re asking a question on Epstein at a time like this where we’re having some of the greatest success and also tragedy with what happened in Texas,” he said. “It just seems like a desecration.”
Trump’s outburst came just days after the Justice Department and FBI released a memo saying Epstein died by suicide in 2019 and was not murdered—directly challenging years of conspiracy theories. The memo also claimed no “client list” ever existed.
But Trump’s fury may have also been personal. He’s long tried to distance himself from Epstein, despite old photos showing them together. Trump insists he never flew on Epstein’s plane or visited his private island. During his 2024 campaign, he promised to release more files from the Epstein case—something that excited many in his base.
Eventually, Bondi answered the original question, which included whether Epstein had been working for a U.S. or foreign intelligence agency and why one minute of footage from his prison cell was missing.
“I do not know if he was working for an intelligence agency,” Bondi said. She claimed the missing minute of video was due to the prison’s outdated system. “A minute is missing every night as the old video system reloops.”
“We released the video showing definitively, the video was not conclusive, but the evidence prior to it was showing he committed suicide,” she added.
Bondi also defended a comment she made in a Fox News interview in February, where she mentioned a client list being “on her desk.”
“My response was ‘it’s sitting on my desk to be reviewed,’ meaning the file along with the JFK, MLK files as well,” Bondi said. “That’s what I meant by that. Also to the 10s of 1000s of videos, they turned out to be child porn downloaded by that disgusting Jeffrey Epstein. Child porn is what they were, never going to be released.”
Her response echoed what White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said earlier in the week.
But not everyone in Trump’s circle is buying the official story. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, a close Trump ally, fired back on X.
“What about her little black book? The 97-page book, contains the names and contact details of almost 2,000 people including world leaders, celebrities and businessmen. No one believes there is not a client list,” Greene wrote.
Trump may want to move on from Epstein—but many of his supporters aren’t ready to let it go.
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