Pam Bondi leaves billionaires and celebrities trembling as she vows to launch explosive paperwork
Attorney General Pam Bondi says the administration plans to release ‘a lot of documents’ from the file of deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein – suggesting his shrouded client list could soon see daylight.
She indicated she got briefed on the matter just days after being confirmed to her post, and said she was doing so at President Donald Trump’s direction.
The potentially explosive matter is now sitting on her desk, she said Friday.
‘I was briefed on that yesterday. I can’t talk about that that publicly President Trump has given a very strong directive and that is going to be followed,’ she told conservative media figure Benny Johnson at the annual CPAC conference.
‘A lot of documents,’ she added, describing the trove.
Johnson, who like Bondi spoke at the conference Thursday, framed the topic as being about ‘scaring bad guys’ and said it was ‘something Kash has talked about a lot.’ That was a reference for FBI Director Kash Patel, who is being sworn into his powerful post Friday.
‘Where are we at with the Jeffrey Epstein list, the documents? Kash has made a lot of public statements about this,’ Johnson asked her.
Bondi also told him that ‘Donald Trump doesn’t make empty promises,’ indicating that the directive would be followed.
AG Pam Bondi says the Jeffrey Epstein file on her desk, and noted a ‘strong directive’ by President Donald Trump
There has been intense interest in Epstein’s client list ever since he was found dead in his New York jail cell in 2019 while awaiting trail.
Epstein had a series of well-known contacts in politics and business. Among the people he knew socially was Donald Trump, who had once praised Epstein as a ‘terrific guy’ but who then broke with the financier.
‘I was not a fan of his, that I can tell you,’ Trump said following Epstein’s arrest.
Author Michael Wolff released tapes of Epstein talking at length about Trump’s inner circle as part of his ‘Fire and Fury’ podcast, prompting angry pushback from Trump’s camp.
Court documents also disclosed multiple boldfaced names linked to Epstein. Among them were former President Bill Clinton, Prince Andrew. lawyer Alan Dershowitz, actor Kevin Spacey, and former Israeli PM Ehud Barak.
All denied wrongdoing, and they had already been publicly linked to Epstein, who traveled in prominent circles before his arrest.
Bondi fielded a question about Epstein’s client list from conservative media figure Benny Johnson at CPAC
Bondi told Fox News when asked about the Epstein information: ‘It’s sitting right now on my desk to review.’
Asked if there was anything inside that made her say ‘oh my gosh,’ Bondi replied, ‘Not yet.’
She also mentioned ‘JFK files’ and Martin Luther King, Jr. files as being ‘all in the process of being reviewed.’
During Patel’s Senate confirmation hearing, Tennessee Sen. Marsha Blackburn asked him, ‘Will you work with me on this issue so we know who worked with Jeffrey Epstein in building these sex trafficking rings?’
Patel answered ‘absolutely’ he would. Blackburn indicated the files might have information on who flew on Epstein’s infamous ‘Lolita Express’ jet and who helped him build an infamous sex trafficking ring.
