CV NEWS FEED // Trump administration Attorney General Pam Bondi reported Thursday that the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) New York field office had withheld thousands of pages of records concerning the notorious child sex trafficking ring run by the late financier Jeffrey Epstein.
According to Bondi, the FBI office defied her order to send her “the full and complete” set of documents. In addition, Bondi claimed that the Bureau had “repeatedly” told her that the small fraction of documents they had sent her was the “full set.”
In a letter to FBI Director Kash Patel, Bondi wrote that she had “requested the full and complete files related to Jeffrey Epstein.”
“In response to this request,” Bondi added, “I received approximately 200 pages of documents, which consisted primarily of flight logs, Epstein’s list of contacts, and a list of victims’ names and phone numbers.” The FBI is an agency of the Department of Justice (DOJ), which Bondi leads.
“I repeatedly questioned whether this was the full set of documents responsive to my request and was repeatedly assured by the FBI that we had received the full set of documents,” the Attorney General added. “Late yesterday, I learned from a source that the FBI Field Office in New York was in possession of thousands of pages of documents related to the investigation and indictment of Epstein.”
“Despite my repeated requests, the FBI never disclosed the existence of these files,” she emphasized.
Bondi noted that when she had spoken with Patel the day before, he had been “just as surprised as I was to learn this new information.”
She ordered that by the morning of the following day, “the FBI will deliver the full and complete Epstein files to my office, including all records, documents, audio and video recordings, and materials related to Jeffrey Epstein and his clients, regardless of how such information was obtained.”
Bondi also stressed that the Trump administration’s DOJ “will ensure that any public disclosure of these files will be done in a manner to protect the privacy of victims and in accordance with law, as I have done my entire career as a prosecutor.”
The attorney general directed Patel “to conduct an immediate investigation into why my order to the FBI was not followed.” She gave Patel a deadline of two weeks to send her “a comprehensive report” of his findings and “proposed personnel action.”
Conservative political commentator and podcast hostess Liz Wheeler – one of several media figures who was given a binder of the first tranche of Epstein files – noted on X that President Donald Trump and Bondi had “committed to releasing” the files and the FBI was told to deliver them to Bondi.
“They did, about 200 pages,” Wheeler, a Catholic, summarized. “Bondi smelled a rat, because there was nothing juicy in the 200 pages, just flight logs & a Rolodex of phone numbers. No ‘smoking gun.’”
“Still, Bondi promised to release the documents, so she prepared a binder of them,” the podcast hostess went on. “THEN, last night a whistleblower contacted Bondi & revealed that the SDNY [U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York] was hiding potentially thousands of Epstein files, defying Bondi’s order to give them all to her.”
“We’re talking recordings, evidence, etc. The juicy stuff. Names,” Wheeler elaborated, alleging that Bondi, Patel, and American voters were “deceived” by the “deep state” in the process.
“Celebrate the regular people are being given access to the most powerful people in our country to report on despicable corruption as it’s being uncovered in realtime,” Wheeler continued. “And be very, very angry that deep state agents in the swamp at the SDNY are at this very moment defying President Trump … because they don’t want their own corruption & weaponization of govt exposed. That’s the story.”
Bondi told FOX News host Jesse Watters on Wednesday: “I think tomorrow, Jesse, breaking news right now … you’re going to see some Epstein information being released by my office.”
The attorney general clarified that the records included a “lot of flight logs, a lot of names… a lot of information.”
On Feb. 21st, Bondi told FOX’s John Roberts that Epstein’s client list was “sitting on my desk right now to review. That’s been a directive by President Trump.”
FOX added at the time that Bondi also told Roberts she was “‘reviewing’ the JFK and MLK files, which the president signed an executive order to declassify at the start of his second term.”
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Last September, then-Republican presidential nominee Trump told podcast host Lex Friedman that he would “be inclined” to release a list of Epstein’s clients if voters returned him to the White House.
“A lot of big people went to that island,” Trump added at the time. He was referring to a Caribbean island that Epstein had owned for two decades. The island has widely alleged to be the primary location where the pedophile’s infamous trafficking ring was based.
Friedman replied to the president: “It’s just very strange for a lot of people that the list of clients that went to the island has not been made public.”
Two months later, Trump decisively defeated Democratic nominee Kamala Harris to win a second nonconsecutive term.
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