Inside Dan Bongino's Tense Meeting With White House Officials Over Jeffrey Epstein Fallout

FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino was outraged this week during a closed-door White House gathering astir nan Department of Justice's reappraisal of Jeffrey Epstein's activity trafficking lawsuit files, according to aggregate sources.

Bongino raised his sound during a chat pinch White House main of unit Susie Wiles earlier storming retired of nan meeting, according to 2 sources adjacent to DOJ leadership. Bongino besides exchanged heated words pinch Attorney General Pam Bondi during nan meeting, and nan full ordeal has led him to see resigning from nan FBI, different root said.

Another personification pinch knowledge of nan gathering disputed nan characterization that Bongino yelled astatine Wiles aliases Bondi during nan sitdown.

However, that personification agreed that Bongino was "enraged." The root said nan lawman head was angry astir nan Epstein memo rollout and what he viewed arsenic Bondi's "lack of transparency from nan start." The memo, a associated merchandise of nan DOJ and FBI, said nan 2 agencies had nary further accusation to stock pinch nan nationalist astir Epstein's case, a revelation that sparked fury among nan MAGA base. The memo first appeared successful Axios complete nan weekend, and past nan DOJ and FBI published it Monday.

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Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino and FBI Director Kash Patel guidelines by nan American and nan Bureau's flags. (@FBIDDBongino connected X)

Asked astir nan declare that Bongino yelled astatine Wiles, a White House charismatic said it was "100% false." Wiles is simply a seasoned of Florida authorities who led Trump's campaign, and nan president has described her arsenic "universally admired."

The fracture successful DOJ and FBI activity spilled into nan nationalist connected Friday amid fallout from nan memo.

The memo stated that nan DOJ and FBI concluded their reappraisal of Epstein's files and did not find immoderate accusation that could lead to charges against anyone new.

Despite Bongino reportedly now breaking pinch activity complete nan memo and weighing resignation, group acquainted pinch nan matter said arsenic of Friday that FBI Director Kash Patel and Bondi remained successful connection and that Patel is happy pinch his job.

A DOJ spokesperson and an FBI spokesperson did not respond to requests for comment.

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U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi speaks alongside President Donald Trump connected caller Supreme Court rulings successful nan briefing room astatine nan White House connected June 27, 2025, successful Washington, D.C. (Getty Images)

Bongino, a erstwhile Secret Service supplier pinch nary anterior FBI experience, hosted a celebrated podcast earlier Trump tapped him to service successful nan No. 2 domiciled astatine nan bureau. On his show, Bongino many times raised siren complete Epstein’s "client list," saying "there’s a logic they’re hiding it" and that its merchandise would "rock nan governmental world."

But successful nan memo released connected Monday, nan FBI and DOJ said they uncovered nary specified list.

Bongino, Bondi and Patel are each facing blowback complete nan Epstein files from a faction of their supporters, who opportunity they reneged connected repeated vows to unfastened nan curtain connected specifications of Epstein's case.

Epstein, a financier who was known to prosecute pinch wealthy, well-known figures, was indicted successful 2019 complete allegations he recruited dozens of women, including minors arsenic young arsenic 14, and had intersexual relations pinch them aliases sexually abused them. His subordinate Ghislaine Maxwell was convicted of colluding to sexually maltreatment minors and is serving a 20-year situation sentence. She has an entreaty pending.

The DOJ and FBI said successful their memo that overmuch of nan nonpublic accusation related to Epstein's lawsuit is nether court-ordered seals aliases contains kid pornography and backstage accusation astir victims.

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A root pinch knowledge of nan gathering disputes nan characterization that Bongino yelled astatine Wiles aliases Bondi, however, nan root agreed that Bongino was "enraged" by nan handling of nan Epstein memo rollout, and nan deficiency of "transparency from nan start" connected nan lawyer general's part. (Reuters)

Before joining nan bureau, Patel and Bongino some precocious theories that nan authorities was hiding accusation astir nan case, including a expected "list" of unindicted intersexual predators.

The DOJ and FBI's memo poured acold h2o connected that thought by noting that nan agencies recovered "no incriminating ‘client list.'"

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Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said successful a connection connected X that DOJ and FBI leadership, including Bongino, were successful lockstep during nan compilation and merchandise of nan memo. The thought that "there was immoderate daylight" betwixt nan FBI and DOJ was "patently false," Blanche said.

Bongino was not astatine activity connected Friday because he was truthful upset by nan fallout from nan Epstein memo, sources said. One said Bongino had not anticipated nan backlash from his supporters.

Fox News' David Spunt and Jake Gibson contributed to this report.