Overview

• At a July 8 Cabinet meeting, President Trump abruptly cut off Attorney General Pam Bondi’s response to a reporter’s question on Jeffrey Epstein The Department of Justice and FBI announced last week that Epstein died by suicide in 2019 and found no evidence of a long-rumored client list
• Bondi said Epstein-related documents, including files tied to JFK and Martin Luther King Jr., remain under internal review with no new public releases planned
• Conservative figures such as the Hodgetwins and Liz Wheeler criticized Trump’s handling of the episode as undermining administration credibility
• Elon Musk’s unverified claim that Trump appears in sealed Epstein files has fueled renewed demands from MAGA supporters for full transparency