Lawyer Basic Pam Bondi advised the president he is within the authorities’s recordsdata on the convicted intercourse offender, in response to The Wall Road Journal
The Justice Division advised Donald Trump that his identify seems within the authorities’s recordsdata associated to convicted intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein, The Wall Road Journal reported on Wednesday.
The president’s identify seems within the recordsdata a number of occasions, in response to senior administration officers who spoke to the Journal. Lawyer Basic Pam Bondi knowledgeable Trump that his identify seems within the recordsdata throughout a gathering on the White Home in Could. She additionally advised him that a number of different notable figures appeared within the recordsdata, and that the recordsdata contained what they believed to be, because the Journal places it, “unverified rumour” about individuals who had socialized with Epstein previously, together with the president.
Trump has an extended historical past with Epstein. The Journal reported final week that he wrote the longer term convicted intercourse offender a salacious birthday notice within the early 2000s, noting that the 2 have “sure issues in widespread.” Trump denied the report and sued the outlet days later.
The Journal’s report that Trump was advised he’s within the Epstein recordsdata comes because the Trump administration struggles to tamp down MAGA outrage over their dealing with of the case. Earlier this month, the DOJ and FBI launched a joint memo asserting they’d be closing the administration’s evaluate of Epstein, affirming that the financier killed himself in jail, and declining to launch further materials associated to the case. The announcement triggered a revolt among the many Republican base, which for months — if not years — had been teased with guarantees of transparency and extra prosecutions of people related to Epstein as soon as Trump returned to energy.
Amid his ongoing feud with Trump, billionaire Elon Musk, a former Trump White Home adviser, posted on X final month that Trump “is within the Epstein recordsdata,” including: “That’s the actual motive they haven’t been made public. Have a pleasant day, DJT!”
ABC Information requested Trump final week if Bondi had advised him that his identify seems within the Epstein recordsdata. “No, no,” he mentioned, including that Bondi had dealt with the Epstein state of affairs “very nicely.”
