Overview

• The DOJ-FBI memo confirmed Epstein’s death by suicide and found no incriminating client list.
• Bongino missed work the previous Friday and spent the weekend in Florida after reports he planned to resign over the memo’s findings.
• He quarreled with Attorney General Pam Bondi and then iced out all communications with bureau staff for several days.
• White House aides and President Trump were so unsure about his whereabouts that they texted reporters to verify whether he had returned to the FBI.
• His return to Washington did little to ease questions about morale and the balance between political loyalty and professional norms within the Trump-appointed FBI leadership.