All President Trump had to do was tell his staff to keep their mouths shut on the Epstein files—and there would have been no issue.
Instead we got this:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/07/08/jeffrey-epstein-bondi-patel-trump/
That is rather hyper-simplifying this mess. Trump ran on several promises - among them was to release “everything” on the Epstein debacle. He had repeatedly claimed to have “seen the tapes” and confirmed the list existed.
Then Bondi publicly stated that the “list” was on her desk with the file.
She released a binder with some documents that represented a “release”, yet all that was in it had already been released previously (and to add insult to injury, this later version had MORE redactions than the previous release!)
Then, as crickets chirped and the public grew more and more impatient - and after Musk’s claim that Trump was ON the list... a huge shuffle of documents takes place and an “official” statement that not only was there “no list”, but Epstein really did kill himself...
So - his staff and the top of the DOJ could not remain silent. But this just loudly shouts of massive cover-up and corruption. And whether or not DJT is ON the list or not - this only lends to more speculation and assumptions that he must be...
What we got was Pam Bondi running her mouth.