Trump Was Told by Bondi His Name Appeared Multiple Times in Epstein Files: Report
According to a report in the Wall Street Journal, Attorney General Pam Bondi and her deputy Todd Blanche informed President Donald Trump in May that his name appeared multiple times in the government’s files on Jeffrey Epstein that the Department of Justice and the FBI reviewed.
The officials told Trump of their plan not to release any additional documents, the report says, because the material contained child pornography and the personal information of victims.
President Trump, according to the Journal, said he would defer to the Justice Department’s decision not to release additional files on Epstein, the wealthy financier and convicted sex offender who died by suicide in jail in 2019.
According to the report, Trump was also informed that the names of many other high-profile individuals appeared in the documents, which the Journal reported was not evidence of wrongdoing.
The Trump administration did not say anything publicly about the decision not to release additional files until July, when it angered many of Trump’s supporters by announcing that it would not release any additional files after earlier promising to do so. (Read more from “Trump Was Told by Bondi His Name Appeared Multiple Times in Epstein Files: Report” HERE)
