Attorney General Pam Bondi was duped into thinking she had all the files related to investigations into disgraced financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, she told Fox News host Mark Levin over the weekend while defending Thursday’s widely mocked document dump.
“I kept saying, there has to be more. There has to be more,” Bondi said Saturday. “I was assured that’s it.”
Epstein, who hobnobbed with celebrities, royalty and other powerful people, died by suicide in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.
Bondi said she found out from a “whistleblower” after releasing 100 pages of flight logs and Epstein’s contact lists that the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York is “sitting on thousands of pages of documents” that had not been handed over to her. She is now seeking additional information through the FBI.
Bondi vowed that Americans will eventually see “the full Epstein files.”
“We will get everything,” she told Levin. “We will have it in our possession, we will redact it, of course, to protect grand jury information and confidential witnesses, but American people have a right to know.”
Before last week’s highly anticipated document release, Bondi had promoted the revelations in several interviews without details but describing Epstein’s actions as “pretty sick.”
The Trump administration faced immediate backlash over last week’s “nothingburger” Epstein release after the White House hosted a group of MAGA-aligned influencers and distributed “phase one” of the documents in white binders.
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.), who chairs a bipartisan House panel reviewing classified documents in high-profile cases for release including the Epstein files, voiced her frustration on social media over Bondi’s Thursday document dump.
“THIS IS NOT WHAT WE OR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ASKED FOR and a complete disappointment,” Luna posted on X. “GET US THE INFORMATION WE ASKED FOR!”
Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-Fla.) said the confusion created a bad day for the White House.
“It was not a good day for the administration. If you look at the traffic online over the Epstein release, I have never seen the left and the right come together in a moment on the debacle of what the Epstein files contained,” Moskowitz said Thursday on CNN’s “News Night.”
