There’s simply no denying that the current administration’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files has been an absolute disaster—and people are rightfully furious. But now, according to new reports, even President Donald Trump’s own senior officials are seething behind the scenes over how badly this mess has been botched.
Senior officials within the Trump administration told the Daily Caller that they are growing increasingly frustrated with Attorney General Pam Bondi and the Department of Justice, saying the DOJ “completely dropped the ball.” No kidding.
The administration has taken major heat ever since the FBI “leaked” a memo to Axios—conveniently, of course—declaring the Epstein case officially closed. Their reasoning? Epstein supposedly “killed himself” (cue laughter) and there was “no client list.” That’s it. Case closed. Go back to watching football and eating bugs.
Not surprisingly, Americans were outraged by this laughably scripted conclusion—especially since just months earlier, AG Bondi had told the press that the infamous client list was “sitting on her desk,” waiting for her review. She didn’t just say it once. She said it in interview after interview, sometimes multiple times a day, while conveniently failing to actually produce anything.
Fox News anchor John Roberts even asked her point-blank,“One of things that you alluded to, and this is something Donald Trump has talked about, the DOJ may be releasing the list of Jeffrey Epstein’s clients? Will that really happen?”
Bondi replied flatly: “It is sitting on my desk right now to review. That’s been a directive by President Trump… That’s all in the process of being reviewed.”
HERE IT COMES.
AG PAM BONDI ON EPSTEIN FILES: They’re sitting on my desk right now to review. That’s a directive from Trump. pic.twitter.com/Da4Chb8ewF
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) February 21, 2025
Well, if it’s been sitting on her desk this whole time, someone might want to check whether she actually knows how to read. Or maybe the pages are written in invisible ink.
Trump’s team is reportedly furious—not just about the obvious public backlash, but because they weren’t even told the FBI was planning to issue this memo. One source told the Caller that the memo took the White House completely by surprise, and that several sealed documents in ongoing cases contradict the idea that the Epstein investigation is truly over. So which is it?
Another official admitted that even they were confused, and suggested that Bondi’s grandstanding about the client list was… well, let’s say “unhelpful.” One source bluntly said people close to Bondi fear she may be “not adequately prepared” for the job. You don’t say.
To make matters worse, one senior official reportedly said there was never any client list or smoking gun evidence—a wildly different tune than the one Bondi was singing while moonlighting as the DOJ’s press secretary. It raises an obvious question: Was Bondi lying, or just completely out of her depth?
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt insists that President Trump still has confidence in Bondi—for now. But let’s not pretend this would be the first time Trump backed the wrong horse for AG.
Let’s rewind. His first pick, Jeff Sessions, folded like a cheap card table under Deep State pressure and refused to stop the Russia hoax that haunted Trump’s first term. He eventually “resigned” at Trump’s request—a mercy firing if there ever was one.
Then came Bill Barr, who strutted in like he was going to clean house… and then rolled over and played dead when it mattered most. Barr flat-out refused to investigate the blatant election fraud in 2020, instead insisting there was “no evidence” while the whole country watched mail-in ballots being stuffed into drop-boxes like a Black Friday shopper shoving flat screens into a cart.
So yes, it would surprise exactly no one if Trump eventually changes his tune on Bondi, too. If she truly is responsible for the Epstein clown show—and all signs point in that direction—Trump would be smart to cut bait before she becomes another Sessions or Barr.
And let’s not forget: the American people don’t believe Epstein killed himself. They don’t believe there was no client list. And they definitely don’t believe the government’s done trying to cover it all up.
When you lose both the base and the administration on a story, it’s time to stop spinning and start answering questions.