Trump Outraged At Questions About ‘Creep’ Jeffrey Epstein Following DOJ Memo | EUROtoday

President Donald Trump snapped at a reporter for asking in regards to the Justice Department’s memo this week concluding that disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein didn’t possess a “client list” of highly effective figures ― with the president calling the deceased intercourse offender he used to affiliate with a “creep.”

At the White House’s Cabinet assembly on Tuesday, a reporter requested Attorney General Pam Bondi to clarify why there was a lacking minute within the 10 hours of jailhouse safety footage her division included in its investigation into Epstein, who died in his cell whereas awaiting trial for federal intercourse trafficking costs in 2019.

“Are you still talking about Jeffrey Epstein? This guy’s been talked about for years,” the president mentioned earlier than Bondi might reply. “I mean I can’t believe you’re asking a question on Epstein at a time like this, where we’re having some of the greatest success and also tragedy with what happened in Texas. It just seems like a desecration.”

The DOJ printed a memo on Monday that supported earlier stories that Epstein had killed himself, contradicting right-wing conspiracy theories that he was murdered as a way to stop linked high-profile associates from being uncovered. The memo included jailhouse footage that appeared to point out nobody coming into the financier’s cell within the hours earlier than his dying, with one minute lacking from the video.

“The video was not conclusive, but the evidence prior to it was showing he committed suicide. And there was a minute that was off the counter, and what we learned from the Bureau of Prisons was every night they redo that video,” Bondi mentioned. “So every night the video is reset, and every night should have the same minute missing.”

The memo additionally mentioned that investigators discovered no proof Epstein possessed a “client list,” which was rumored to have been used to blackmail highly effective figures he helped victimize ladies. The New York financier publicly had ties to a number of high-profile folks, together with Trump, who maintains that he stopped having a relationship with Epstein a minimum of a dozen years earlier than his dying.

Bondi herself mentioned in February that there was such an inventory sitting on her desk for evaluate as a part of a “directive by President Trump.” The legal professional basic clarified at Tuesday’s assembly that she was referring to entirety of the Epstein case recordsdata, not a particular consumer checklist.

Many conservative voices on the suitable have since lashed out at Bondi for the DOJ’s conclusion, accusing the Trump administration of hiding details about Epstein from the general public. The DOJ’s memo mentioned that the division’s launch of data has been within the curiosity of transparency with the general public.