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MAGA supporters are nor pleased pinch President Donald Trump pursuing his full-throated defense of Attorney General Pam Bondi, whose Department of Justice denied nan beingness of a Jeffrey Epstein customer database aft years of Trump surrogates vowing to uncover nan disgraced financier's secrets.
Longtime conservatives and supporters of Trump sounded disconnected connected societal media this weekend, arsenic good arsenic successful personification during a normal successful Florida, pinch various messages pledging that nan Epstein ungraded will not "go away." The DOJ wished that Epstein committed termination successful 2019 and that location is nary database detailing nan names of nan world's elite who allegedly took portion successful Epstein's history of intersexual deviancy.
".@realDonaldTrump please understand nan EPSTEIN AFFAIR is not going away," retired Lt. Gen. Mike Flynn, Trump's nationalist information advisor from his first administration, posted to X connected Saturday. "If nan management doesn’t reside nan monolithic number of unanswered questions astir Epstein, particularly nan ABUSE OF CHILDREN BY ELITES (it is very clear that maltreatment occurred), past moving guardant connected truthful galore different monumental challenges our federation is facing becomes overmuch harder."
The DOJ and FBI said successful a associated memo obtained by Fox News past week that nan 2 agencies had nary further accusation to stock pinch nan nationalist astir Epstein's lawsuit and death. That led to FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino clashing pinch Bondi complete "lack of transparency" and threatening to resign complete nan matter, Fox News reported.
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Jeffrey Epstein was recovered dormant successful his New York City jailhouse compartment successful 2019. (New York State Sex Offender Registry via AP, File)
Epstein was a notorious predator who pleaded blameworthy to procuring underage girls for adultery successful 2008, earlier he was arrested successful 2019 connected caller national charges of activity trafficking minors and conspiracy to prosecute successful activity trafficking of minors. Epstein, who had rubbed elbows pinch nan world's elites stretching from Bill Gates to being photographed pinch Trump agelong earlier his presidency, was recovered dormant successful his New York City jailhouse compartment successful August 2019 by evident suicide.
Many MAGA supporters, however, person claimed Epstein did not bent himself, and nan decease was allegedly portion of a bigger cover-up protecting elites allegedly progressive successful his intersexual maltreatment of minors.
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Attorney General Pam Bondi was asked astir nan Epstein files during a Cabinet gathering pinch President Trump. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Trump took to Truth Social connected Saturday evening and offered a beardown endorsement of Bondi arsenic conservatives demanded answers complete nan long-running scandal.
"What's going connected pinch my ‘boys’ and, successful immoderate cases, ‘gals?' They’re each going aft Attorney General Pam Bondi, who is doing a FANTASTIC JOB," Trump wrote successful a lengthy station connected Truth Social connected Saturday. "We’re connected 1 Team, MAGA, and I don’t for illustration what’s happening."
He referred to Epstein arsenic nan "guy who ne'er dies," adding, "For years, it’s Epstein, complete and complete again."
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Trump questioned why group were "giving publicity to Files written by Obama, Crooked Hillary, Comey, Brennan, and nan Losers and Criminals of nan Biden administration."
FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino allegedly threatened he would resign complete nan Epstein lawsuit handling. (Reuters)
"They created nan Epstein Files, conscionable for illustration they created nan FAKE Hillary Clinton/Christopher Steele Dossier that they utilized connected me, and now my alleged ‘friends’ are playing correct into their hands," Trump wrote. "Why didn’t these Radical Left Lunatics merchandise nan Epstein Files? If location was ANYTHING successful location that could person wounded nan MAGA Movement, why didn’t they usage it?"
"LET PAM BONDI DO HER JOB – SHE’S GREAT! The 2020 Election was Rigged and Stolen, and they tried to do nan aforesaid point successful 2024 – That’s what she is looking into arsenic AG, and overmuch more," he wrote. "One twelvemonth agone our Country was DEAD, now it’s nan ‘HOTTEST’ Country anyplace successful nan World. Let’s support it that way, and not discarded Time and Energy connected Jeffrey Epstein, personification that cipher cares about."
Trump supporters many times posted connected X that nan Epstein ungraded will not simply dissipate aft years of high-profile Trump allies, including Bondi, Bongino and FBI Director Kash Patel, antecedently vowing to expose nan corruption surrounding Epstein, his alleged customer database and nan alleged crimes that played retired connected his notorious island, Little Saint James.
"We cannot let pedophiles to get away. I don’t personally attraction who they are aliases what elite aliases powerful position they hold. They must beryllium exposed and held accountable!!!" Flynn continued successful his X post.
Activist and Trump state Laura Loomer besides slammed Bondi complete her leadership, while taking a swipe astatine nan president arsenic well.
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President Donald Trump defended AG Bondi's handling of nan Epstein lawsuit connected Truth Social. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
"President Trump says he thinks Blondi is 'doing a Fantastic job' arsenic AG successful a station he posted connected Truth Social today…." Loomer posted to X connected Saturday, accompanied by screenshots of his Truth Social station praising Bondi.
"People make their ain choices and decisions, but people my word, nan deficiency of existent results astatine nan DOJ and deficiency of transparency that translates into incompetence will costs nan GOP House and Senate seats. Don’t opportunity I didn’t pass you," she added successful a follow-up station connected Saturday.
Robby Starbuck, different longtime Trump protagonist and blimpish societal media personality, railed online that nan "age of secrets" must travel to an extremity – opening pinch Epstein.
"People want truth, they want nan rapists exposed and brought to justice, they want to break nan heavy state, they want nan 100 twelvemonth large wind of lies from authorities to extremity and they want to extremity nan 2 gradual strategy of justice. People want peace, safety, justness and sanity," Starbuck posted successful a lengthy connection connected Saturday.
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"They want their state back. This lawsuit became a awesome for each of that. Fair aliases unfair, that’s nan truth. President Trump seldom loses touch pinch what’s happening among nan guidelines but he’s missing nan beat connected this one. Saying truthful doesn’t mean disloyalty aliases hatred, it intends that this matters truthful overmuch that we must punctual him why it matters truthful much. We want President Trump to win connected EVERYTHING he ran on. To do truthful requires disclosure and transparency connected each issue. We request to extremity nan property of secrets," he continued.
Amid nan fallout surrounding nan DOJ's Epstein findings, Turning Point USA is holding its Student Action Summit successful Tampa Bay, Florida, wherever immoderate blimpish friends said retired against nan DOJ and Trump complete nan deficiency of answers regarding Epstein.
"I deliberation that these group – and I don’t know, for immoderate reason, location could beryllium reasons – but I don’t deliberation they’re telling america nan truth astir Epstein," podcaster Brandon Tatum said during nan convention. "I deliberation that that feline was progressive successful thing nefarious that implicates a full batch of people. And my conjecture is that nan full batch of group whitethorn have, whitethorn hap to beryllium immoderate of our friends and immoderate group that we don’t want to person a bad narration with."
"Trump is losing his touch," erstwhile Republican Florida authorities Rep. Anthony Sabatini said, according to NBC. "Bad unit are undermining him near and right. We request a afloat reset."
FBI Director Kash Patel had many times called for transparency surrounding nan Epstein files earlier Trump's 2024 predetermination win. (Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images)
The deficiency of further specifications connected Epstein has besides spurred liberals to telephone connected nan Trump management to merchandise nan files surrounding Epstein.
"Dear Donald Trump and Pam Bondi: Release nan Epstein files. What ever happened to ‘Promises Made, Promises Kept?’" Democratic New York Rep. Ritchie Torres posted to X.
Officials successful Trump's orbit, including those who yet roseate to high-level positions wrong nan administration, had vowed to uncover alleged specifications and corruption that had not yet been made nationalist aliases confirmed some earlier and aft nan high-stakes 2024 election.
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Patel told blimpish societal media characteristic Benny Johnson successful 2023, earlier he became FBI director nether Trump's 2nd administration, that Republicans astatine nan clip could easy get Epstein's alleged customer database pinch subpoena, while adding successful different question and reply that twelvemonth that Trump should "roll retired nan achromatic book" containing Epstein's alleged customer database connected "day one."
Patel besides doubled down during his Senate confirmation proceeding that he would assistance lawmakers successful investigating Epstein's alleged web of nan world's elite progressive successful his activity crimes.
"Child activity trafficking has nary spot successful nan United States of America," Patel told Tennessee Sen. Marsha Blackburn erstwhile asked astir investigating Epstein during his Senate confirmation proceeding this year. "And I will do everything, if confirmed arsenic FBI director, to make judge nan American nationalist knows nan afloat weight of what happened successful nan past and really we are going to counterman missing children and exploited children going forward."
Jeffrey Epstein successful Cambridge, Massachusetts connected Sept. 8, 2004. (Rick Friedman/Rick Friedman Photography/Corbis via Getty Images)
Patel connected Saturday posted to X that nan "conspiracy theories" weren't and person ne'er been true, but it was unclear if he was referring to Epstein aliases reports that he intended to measurement down if Bongino did.
"The conspiracy theories conscionable aren’t true, ne'er person been. It’s an grant to service nan President of nan United States @realDonaldTrump – and I’ll proceed to do truthful for arsenic agelong arsenic he calls connected me," he posted.
Bondi has landed successful basking h2o complete her comments during a February Fox News question and reply erstwhile she was asked astir nan Epstein files, and said it was "sitting connected her desk." The Epstein investigation came arsenic nan DOJ besides readied to merchandise files connected erstwhile President John F. Kennedy's assassination and Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination.
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"It's sitting connected my table correct now to review," Bondi told "America Reports" successful February erstwhile asked astir Epstein's alleged customer list. "That's been a directive by President Trump."
Bondi based on during a Cabinet gathering this period that she was referring to files connected Epstein, "along pinch nan JFK, MLK files" erstwhile she told Fox News that "it's sitting connected my desk."
AG Pam Bondi has defended nan DOJ's investigation into Epstein. (Getty Images)
Trump slammed a newsman for asking astir Epstein during nan Cabinet meeting, calling Epstein a "creep" who should not return media attraction distant from different tragic news stories, specified arsenic nan devastating flooding that rocked Texas' debased state this month.
"Are you still talking astir Jeffrey Epstein?" Trump said to a newsman connected July 8.
"This guy's been talked astir for years. You're asking.… We person Texas, we person this, we person each of nan things. And are group are still talking astir this guy, this creep?" Trump asked. "That is unbelievable."
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Fox News Digital reached retired to nan White House, DOJ and FBI connected Sunday greeting regarding immoderate MAGA friends criticizing nan management complete nan handling of nan Epstein lawsuit but did not instantly person responses.
Fox News Digital's Brie Stimson and Amanda Macias contributed to this report.
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