President Donald Trump on Saturday defended his administration against charges from his populist base that his team was covering up one of their favorite conspiracy theories: that the late convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein did not in fact keep a list of clients who wanted to pay for sex with minors.
Trump, who was convicted in 2024 for covering up hush money payment to a porn star he had sex with, took to his own social media platform this weekend to try to quell the proverbial pitchforks and extinguish the torches in the social media town square over the rumors that he and his team once lit themselves.
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“What’s going on with my ‘boys’ and, in some cases, ‘gals?’” Trump posted to Truth Social. “They’re all going after Attorney General Pam Bondi, who is doing a FANTASTIC JOB! We’re on one Team, MAGA, and I don’t like what’s happening.”
“We have a PERFECT Administration, THE TALK OF THE WORLD, and ‘selfish people’ are trying to hurt it, all over a guy who never dies, Jeffrey Epstein. For years, it’s Epstein, over and over again,” Trump wrote on Saturday, insisting that any such files were actually written by Trump’s enemies in previous Democratic administrations.
Trump’s red-hat-wearing base, who loved the conspiracy-theory flames he once fanned that the “deep state” in the government of former president Joe Biden was guilty of pedophilia and worse, were more than eager to see the client list hat Bondi once promised them.
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In a Fox News interview in February, Pam Bondi said that she had an FBI file on her desk supposedly containing an Epstein “client list.” She also claimed any delay in releasing documents about his case was due to “tens of thousands” of videos showing potential pornography of minors.
However, a memo released last week by her Department of Justice (DOJ) said that, after reviewing all the material, they found no evidence that Epstein had kept such a list.
Since then, Trump’s faithful have been furious. They were hoping to see Democrats’ names on the list, although maybe secretly worried that Epstein’s alleged Republican friends, including Trump, may be on there as well.
Said former Republican governor of New Jersey Chris Christie, who once sparred with Trump for their party’s presidential nomination, the president is only reaping what he sowed.
In an interview on, ABC News’s “This Week,” Christie pushed back on the suggestion that it was mostly the people around Trump fueling the conspiracy theories.
“We cannot let the president off that easily,” Christie said. “He benefited directly from it. He fueled it. He encouraged it. And he certainly didn’t stop it.”
“Part of what bothers me in this context is that Donald Trump gets a pass. ‘Oh, no, it wasn’t him. It was somebody else,’” Christie continued.
“He took these people who were doing exactly what you just said and put them in charge of the people on the front line of protecting the American people from crime and terrorism and counterintelligence operations,” he added, referring to Bondi, FBI Director Kash Patel and FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino.
“He encouraged this, and by putting them in those positions, he supported the work they were doing,” Christie said.
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