The Department of Justice angered MAGA conspiracy theorists Monday with a memo stating sex offender Jeffrey Epstein didn’t keep a “client list” linking celebrities and public officials to sex trafficking.
The declaration comes on the heels of Attorney General Pam Bondi indicating to Fox News that such a document was “sitting on my desk” waiting to be scrutinized in February. For months Bondi claimed significant information about the disgraced financier that was ignored by the Biden administration would come to light.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt and Justice Department spokesperson Chad Gilmartin told reporters Monday that Bondi meant to say all of the files regarding Epstein were on her desk — though not a specific list of co-conspirators — when she previously commented on the matter.
Epstein had been linked to numerous well-known figures in show business and politics including Donald Trump, who once told New York magazine the convicted sex offender was a “fun” guy to be around.
“It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side,” Trump acknowledged.
Dec. 1, 2021: Plane sick
New York Daily News Front page of the New York Daily News for Dec. 1, 2021: Maxwell trial witness: abused as teen by her, Epstein. Pilot: Clinton, Don flew on pervert’s jet. Jeffrey Epstein was close with Bill Clinton (above) and Ghislaine Maxwell (top). A witness at Maxwell’s sex trafficking trial on Tuesday told the court she was only 14 when first abused by Maxwell and Epstein.
Epstein was also known to spend time with former President Bill Clinton and philanthropist Bill Gates. Neither of those men, nor Trump, are charged with wrongdoing.
Monday’s announcement didn’t sit well with “Infowars” host Alex Jones and X owner Elon Musk.
“This is very, very painful and nauseating,” Jones ranted on a video posted to X Monday.
Musk, who recently announced he’d start his own political party after accusing Trump of being included “in the Epstein files,” also expressed frustration on X.
“This is the final straw,” the billionaire posted.
Justice officials said they have no plans to release further records pertaining to Epstein’s case.
Trump administration FBI appointees Kash Patel and Dan Bongino found themselves under scrutiny from conspiracy theorists in May after admitting Epstein killed himself in the Metropolitan Correctional Center, as investigators reported in 2019, and was not the victim of a “deep state” assassination.
Both men routinely bolstered outlandish conspiratorial claims while working as podcasters.
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