WASHINGTON — President Trump ridiculed continued public interest in the Jeffrey Epstein case Tuesday — before Attorney General Pam Bondi took questions on her department’s just-released files on the matter, including surveillance video with a missing minute of footage taken on the night of his alleged suicide
“Are you still talking about Jeffrey Epstein? This guy’s been talked about for years,” Trump, 79, exclaimed at a Cabinet meeting when a reporter asked Bondi about her Monday document release.
“And are people still talking about this guy, this creep? That is unbelievable. Do you want to waste the time?” Trump asked the AG.
“I mean, 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. It just seems like a desecration.”
Bondi proceeded to give a reply that also addressed criticism of her appearing to say she had a client list belonging to the pedophile “on my desk”, before saying Monday that no such list exists.
“In February, I did an interview on Fox, and it’s been getting a lot of attention because I said — I was asked a question about the client list, and my response was, ‘it’s sitting on my desk to be reviewed’, meaning the [Epstein] file along with the JFK [and] MLK files as well,” Bondi said.
“That’s what I meant by that. Also to the tens of thousands of videos, they turned out to be child porn downloaded by that disgusting Jeffrey Epstein — child porn is what they were,” added Bondi, whom promised those were “never going to be released.”
“To him being an [intelligence] agent. I have no knowledge about that. We can get back to you on that,” she went on.
“And the minute missing from the video … there was a minute that was off the counter. And what we learned from the Bureau of Prisons was, every year, every night, they redo that video. It’s old, from like 1999, so every night the video is reset, and every night should have the same minute missing so we’re looking for that video to release that as well, showing that a minute is missing every night, and that’s it.”
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