Washington (AP) – President Donald Trump jumped to protect Attorney General Palm Bondi on Tuesday Rising criticism from far-flung affected and conservative internet personality Justice Department refuses to release additional documents Jeffrey Epstein Sex-Treficing Investigation.
When a reporter tried to ask Bondi about Epstein at the White House Cabinet meeting, Trump followed the questions and scolded the journalist: “Are you still talking about Jeffrey Epstein? The man has been talked about for years.”
“At one time, at one time,” he said, “where we are achieving some of the biggest success and what happened in Texas is also a tragedy with it, it looks just like a impurity.”
The comments indicated to continue the security of the job for Bondi and the amount of one Striking reprimand of members of Trump’s base Those who have called for their resignation and made fun of what they consider to be their failed commitment to release the files from Epstein’s investigation. One is believed to have Epstein “Client List”, once told that he was sitting at his desk for review, the Justice Department on Monday admitted in a two-page memo that he was further relieved to conservative critics who were expecting evidence of a government cover-up.
Pressure is on bondi
Bondi has faced pressure after the first document dump, which he failed to disclose. Was affected by far and wide Invited at White House in February And the “The Epstein files: phase 1” and “dilacified” provided with binders, which included documents which were already in public domains in a large scale.
After the first release was flat, Bandi said that the authorities were already working on a “truck load” of evidence, saying that it was handed over by the FBI and raised the expectations of upcoming release.
But after a long review of evidence of evidence in the government’s possession, the Department of Justice said in Monday’s memorandum that “further disclosure would not be appropriate or warrant.” The department stated that a lot of material was placed under the sealed by a court to protect the victims and it would have been broadcast in public, only a fraction “, Epstein had gone for tests.”
The only evidence revealed as part of the memo was a video that meant certainly to prove that the wealthy financer killed his life in jail in 2019, but even this disclosure did to the theorists of a quiet conspiracy who believed that he was killed.
This is not a pleasant development for online detectives
The revelation of the customer list of the department was especially disappointed for conservative influencers and online sleeves, in February, in the Fox News interview, Bandi said that such a document was “sitting on my desk” for review. Bondi stressed on Tuesday that she was referring to the Epstein case file to be at her desk, unlike a specific customer list.
“That’s what I meant,” he said.
She also suggested her earlier public statements that the FBI was reviewing the “thousands of thousands” of Epstein’s video with “children or child porn”. Associated Press published a story last week Refusal to provide clarity of the unanswered questions around those videos and the Department of Justice.
Memo did not suggest on Monday that the video in the government’s possession shows Epstein with children, instead with Epstein images -more than 10,000 “downloaded videos and images of illegal hair sex misuse materials and other pornography.”
“He became a child porn downloaded by that disgusting Jeffrey Epstein,” he said.
But it did not say that the department said that he could not issue other files from the “truck load” of the evidence he said, which was given to the agency months ago.
Eric Tucker, Associated Press