As Trump has in recent days, he defended Bondi’s decision to not release any of the Epstein files. “The attorney general has handled that very well,” the president told reporters. “She has really done a very good job. And I think that when you look at it, you’ll understand that. I would like to see [transparency] also. But I think the attorney general — the credibility is very important. And you want credible evidence for something like that.”
According to the memo about the Epstein case released July 7 by the DOJ and FBI (available at this link), officials discovered “a significant amount of material, including more than 300 gigabytes of data and physical evidence.”
Bondi said in a Feb. 21 interview with Fox News that an alleged list of Epstein’s sex-trafficking clients was “sitting on my desk right now to review.” Last week, the attorney general told reporters that she was referring to the documentation of the Epstein case more generally.
Earlier Tuesday, actor Kevin Spacey called for the release of the Epstein files, coming more than a year after his name appeared alongside other major Hollywood stars like Leonardo DiCaprio, Cameron Diaz and Cate Blanchett in Epstein’s unsealed court documents. None of the stars mentioned in the court documents were accused of facilitating Epstein’s sex trafficking ring in any capacity.
“Release the Epstein files. All of them,” Spacey wrote on X. “For those of us with nothing to fear, the truth can’t come soon enough. I hate to make this about me — but the media already has.”
The DOJ and FBI’s July 7 memo said that an “exhaustive review” of Epstein documents found “no credible evidence” that Epstein “blackmailed prominent individuals as part of his actions. We did not uncover evidence that could predicate an investigation against uncharged third parties.”
Epstein died in 2019 in what authorities said was a suicide while he was being held in a Manhattan jail awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges. The DOJ-FBI memo released last week reiterated findings that Epstein died by suicide: “After a thorough investigation, FBI investigators concluded that Jeffrey Epstein committed suicide in his cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York City on August 10, 2019.”
“Through this review, we found no basis to revisit the disclosure of those materials and will not permit the release of child pornography,” the DOJ-FBI memo said. “One of our highest priorities is combatting child exploitation and bringing justice to victims. Perpetuating unfounded theories about Epstein serves neither of those ends.”
