Trump frustrated at having to take the heat for Pam Bondi’s handling of the Epstein files

Washington – President Donald Trump has tired of defending the processing by the Attorney General Pam Bondi of the Jeffery Epstein files from the Ministry of Justice and wants it to take responsibility for cleaning the mess, according to four people familiar with the White House deliberations.

“One thing that was clear is her feelings about it,” a white house official at NBC News told. “It now lies in the doj.”

Another senior the White House official said they thought that the situation was “stabilized” when he asked him questions about the Vision of the White House on Bondi’s performance.

The refusal of the administration to disclose the full content of the government’s investigation into Epstein, who committed suicide in prison while waiting for a trial for accusations of sex trafficking in 2019, caused a deep bankruptcy between Trump and important elements of his Maga base.

Bondi is not in danger of losing her job because she is faithful and appreciated by the president and chief of staff of the White House Susie Wiles, these sources, as well as a person who is close to the White House, said, but Trump is no longer interested in having heat for her.

The Ministry of Justice refused to comment.

Trump said on Tuesday that it was up to Bondi if it was necessary to disclose “credible” information of the materials linked to Epstein, and three days later, he ordered his Attorney General to request the permission of a court to release the “great testimony of the great jury relevant to the Epstein investigation. The press secretary of the White House, Karoline Leavitt, told journalists that the dismissal of Maurene Comey of this week, a federal prosecutor who worked on the Epstein case, was managed by the Ministry of Justice rather than by the Ministry of Justice rather than Trump.

Everything seems to add up to Trump by trying to redirect the storm of Epstein towards Bondi.

“I think he loves and respects PAM, but she has undoubtedly caused headache for them,” said a person familiar with the White House discussions. “At the end of the day, at this stage, she is almost certainly done what she is told, so I believe that she is very safe, but has had false steps.”

In a statement to NBC News, Leavitt did not mention the Epstein case in the praise of the Bondi file.

“The Attorney General Pam Bondi is working tirelessly to end the armament that has rotted our judicial system, removing the violent criminals from our streets and helping President Trump to secure America,” said Leavitt. “The president appreciates his efforts.”

Many of Trump’s most ardent supporters, stimulated by Bondi and other eminent personalities of Trump’s orbit, have long believed that the federal government hid for detrimental information on the links between Epstein and some of the richest and most powerful people in the country.

In February, Bondi told Fox News that a list of Epstein customers was “sitting on my office at the moment” while waiting to be revised and published. His department aroused “Epstein binders” and distributed them to Maga influencers. But the binders contained information already in the public sphere rather than very sensitive and overwhelming equipment.

And in a memo that discreetly circulated at the end of the fourth weekend in July, the department of Bondi concluded that the government has no evidence of the main components of conspiracy theories linked to Epstein: a list of customers, a plan for blackmailing prominent figures or unfair playing in its death. Confirming what the consumer media had previously pointed out, the unsigned service note from the Ministry of Justice addressed a complete political scrum within the president’s political base.

The publication of this memo – and the lack of follow -up of the Ministry of Justice the next day – created an information vacuum, which was then largely left to the President, said a White House official.

Trump’s friend Laura Loomer, a right -wing activist, has spent a large part of the last two weeks Bondi on social networks, calling her “blondi”.

“I exhibit Pam Blondi from Binergate,” wrote Loomer on X last week. “A White House staff literally called me begging me to stop attacking it in February and March. But, I have no calls to stop this week. Long, right?”

Trump voters demanding more information from the President and the Attorney General, several of Trump’s most faithful allies – including Tucker Carlson and the founder of Turning Point USA, Charlie Kirk – have moved away from him on the issue. He replied by evacuating them on Truth Social, by calling his criticisms within the “weaknesses” party and claiming that he no longer wants “their support”.

Trump and White House officials have struggled to overcome the Epstein Imbroglio since the weekend of July fourth, may have initially underestimated its power in the Maga movement.

The former president of the Newt Gingrich Chamber, who is close to Trump, said that the president did not have to try to repress internal dissent at the same time.

“Trump will methodically find ways to satisfy his base that he is serious and that they will do this thing,” said Gingrich. “It is not a crisis; it is a problem.”