Wall Street Journal: Bondi told Trump he was in the Epstein Files
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How about that:
When Justice Department officials reviewed what Attorney General Pam Bondi called a “truckload” of documents related to Jeffrey Epstein earlier this year, they discovered that Donald Trump’s name appeared multiple times, according to senior administration officials.
In May, Bondi and her deputy informed the president at a meeting in the White House that his name was in the Epstein files, the officials said. Many other high-profile figures were also named, Trump was told. Being mentioned in the records isn’t a sign of wrongdoing.
The officials said it was a routine briefing that covered a number of topics and that Trump’s appearance in the documents wasn’t the focus.
They told the president at the meeting that the files contained what officials felt was unverified hearsay about many people, including Trump, who had socialized with Epstein in the past, some of the officials said. One of the officials familiar with the documents said they contain hundreds of other names.
They also told Trump that senior Justice Department officials didn’t plan to release any more documents related to the investigation of the convicted sex offender because the material contained child pornography and victims’ personal information, the officials said. Trump said at the meeting he would defer to the Justice Department’s decision to not release any further files.
The meeting set the stage for the high-profile review to come to an end. Bondi had said in February that Epstein’s client list was “sitting on my desk right now to review.” Trump said last week in response to a journalist’s question that Bondi hadn’t told him that his name was in the files.
The pretext for not releasing the files is obviously silly — Christ knows Pam Bondi knows how to release redacted information, and nobody thinks that you should release photos of children or identify the victims without their consent. It’s also true that there would ordinarily be nothing suspicious about the FBI not releasing the files related to a criminal investigation, but the defense doesn’t really fly when you demanded the FBI release said files before taking power and then promised to do when you took power.
BREAKING: A video is going viral showing JD Vance calling for the full Epstein list to be released – on Theo Von’s podcast. Hey JD, what changed?
Let’s blast this everywhere before he tries to erase it. pic.twitter.com/ZJZt56uejx— CALL TO ACTIVISM (@CalltoActivism) July 15, 2025
It is true that on one level there’s nothing really new here — Epstein and Trump’s relationship has been out there for a long time, and Julie Brown’s work showed in exhaustive detail how the ridiculously lenient deal that allowed Epsietin to keep assaulting girls for more than a decade while immunizing his enablers and associates in exchange for nothing was mostly the work of Republican fixer Ken Starr and Donald Trump’s future Secretary of Labor. But it’s also true that this was not treated as anything remotely like the scandal that it was, and if this is the hook that’s necessary to make it one and compel media outlets to keep digging so be it.
The other important part if this story is Rupert Murdoch is responding to Trump’s lawsuit with a nice hearty “fuck you.” (It’s also further evidence that they have the birthday letter story down cold.) The contrast with the network that is paying Trump and Bari Weiss off rather than continuing to do journalism is instructive indeed. When they kick out your front door, how you gonna come?