Posted on 07/16/2025 8:22:00 AM PDT by Callahan
US President Donald Trump has said Attorney General Pam Bondi should release "whatever she thinks is credible" on late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, as he faces a rare backlash from supporters after seeking to draw a line under the case. Bondi has been lambasted by some of Trump's political base after her department recently said there was no evidence that Epstein kept a "client list". This appeared to contradict her previous statements, and those of other Trump allies who have previously called for the release of more information on Epstein. Trump also said on Tuesday he did not understand "what the interest or what the fascination is" with the case. He earlier offered a defence of Bondi.
"She's handled it very well, and it's going to be up to her," he told reporters. "Whatever she thinks is credible, she should release." When asked by a journalist if the attorney general had told Trump whether his name appeared in any of the records, he said: "No, no." During his later comments, the president questioned the enduring fascination with the Epstein case, calling it "sordid but boring". "Only really bad people, including the fake news, want to keep something like this going," Trump said.
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When the criticism is coming from your own supporters it would behoove him to to pay attention or start losing their support.
Why does he need the support of people who in mob like fashion turn on him
He’s saying Epstein files are stupid
I sure don’t want to see them. Epstein is dead. He was mixed up w the Clinton’s extorting money and power. What more is there to know?
Maybe the Dems totally messed with the documents. Like Russia hoax
Why wouldn’t they do that
No one around to implicate in murder. It’s the Medical Examiner’s call.
Trump has a history. He was friends with Epstein, he rode on the guy’s plane, he has on many occasions talked in sexual ways about underage girls. None of it reflects well on the president and the way he is having a meltdown about it makes me think there is an even smokier gun.
Where is the evidence talked in a sexual way regarding underage girls?
Trump has a history. He was friends with Epstein, he rode on the guy’s plane, he has on many occasions talked in sexual ways about underage girls.”
You are so full of sh*t. As if the rats would not have used something, anything from the Epstein mess to destroy Trump during the election, be gone troll.
The same FIB that investigated Epstein and and hid the evidence for 15 years is the same FIB that raided Trumps house and framed him
And people actually believe that they left some bombshell left in the E-Files that will put a rich and powerful democrat in jail?
This is the media trying to divide Trump from his voters and get a scalp from someone in his Cabinet. They thought they had Hegseths with Signalgate
“ Trump has a history. He was friends with Epstein, he rode on the guy’s plane, he has on many occasions talked in sexual ways about underage girls. None of it reflects well on the president and the way he is having a meltdown about it makes me think there is an even smokier gun.”
Let’s get a quote from Trump on that
Meanwhile this is a mob and he’s done with it.
Me too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdVq27tVnus
Lindsey Lohan was 16 years old at the time that Trump was on Howard Stern speculating on how good she would be in bed.
That’s just one example. If you want more, google.
There are plenty of videos out there of Epstein and Trump partying together, and pictures of them with underage girls. But in the final analysis, that hasn’t been important to MAGA until, for some reason, now.
Maybe all of this is a JD Vance and Peter Thiel op to get Trump replaced.
“And people actually believe that they left some bombshell left in the E-Files that will put a rich and powerful democrat in jail?”
They do. People who tell me thy like Trump say this. They are insane
This is the media trying to divide Trump from his voters and get a scalp from someone in his Cabinet. They thought they had Hegseths with Signalgate”
They’ll keep trying too
The thing is, this MAGA mob says they’re don’t with Trump then they are indignant when he says he’s done with them
He does not care about criticism
They keep pretending that if they criticize him he will care and do what they want him to do
Definition of insanity
He is doing a great job and people watch way too much hate America media. That’s all
As has Patel and Bongino.
Just because Fake News gleefully reported the blow-up between these three parties does not mean it wasn't true.
It would be interesting to know what path Patel and Bongino wanted to follow.
And one point the public rhetoric from all three on this matter aligned.
Something changed.
I believe the truth if ever revealed is that intelligence sources were running a "honeypot" operation as posted on this board by another commenter.
Which is how TWISTED this whole affair is.
The powerful victimizers of the underage innocents were in fact being victimized themselves for being victimizers.
There is a shadow gubmint.
It is dark, powerful and its entanglements go far beyond our borders and our shores.
Every credible conspiracy theory and every cover-up going back to JFK's assassination goes back to that shadow gubmint.
People choose to ignore what Trump is doing has done and will do. They ignore his loyalty
Some MaGA fakers think they hired Trump to be their bitch and do what they tell for him to do
Doesn’t work that way
Not bad, just duped by democrats.
Trump, July 19, 2025 12:18 EDT
People want accountability and that was a big part of Trump’s campaign. If our politicians are being blackmailed shouldn’t this be exposed? Girls as young as 14 were being abused shouldn’t the perpetrators face justice? I had high hopes for Trump and he started off great accomplishing many things but all of this will be for naught if he allows his presidency to be toppled by this scandal. And it will definitely have a deleterious effect on the midterms should this situation not be resolved soon. Obviously there’s something big contained in those files that Trump fears being exposed and he’s apparently willing to risk his presidency over it. People want the truth exposed and if it isn’t Trump’s credibility will suffer greatly even among many of his ardent supporters. Trump telling his supporters to shut up and quit obsessing over this is the wrong move.
Interesting summary and its choice to say “a phrase weaponized” displays an almost human inability to remain unbiased.
OK thanks I had hoped Trump hadn’t been that stupid in public clearly he was.
JD Vance must have talked sense into him .
Does he still think anyone wanting Epstein information accountability is a “past supporter”?
Sure, but what will he say tomorrow? You see the problem?
The problem is that I really don’t think a lot of the people fixated on the Epstein case will accept whatever the administration releases. Even if they released every last piece of documentation or footage that still exists in the FBI’s files in regard to Epstein, I seriously doubt it would be enough for them.
These people are going to want confirmation of their favorite conspiracy theories (and boy are there a lot of them), and if the current 2025 FBI doesn’t have information after all these many years that confirms those unproven theories, there will still be huge swaths of MAGA types who will be screaming that they must still be covering up more files with the “real” information in it. The way they are acting really suggests they will never accept that their theories may just have been wrong or that people under the W., Obama, Biden, or even Trump I (when his FBI acted against him) administrations may have already disposed of anything incriminating of those beyond Epstein and Maxwell.
If that’s the case, then all that releasing the files will do (and that would be an incredibly unusual thing for the FBI or any law enforcement agency to do in the first place) would be to build up a lynch mob mentality against people for whom there isn’t evidence to indict and place on trial. Instead the mob will paint not only all the people accused of being clients but everyone merely mentioned in Epstein’s papers of being pedophiles—and the drumb beat of demanding prosecutions that can’t come will never stop, keeping this as a never-ending “scandal” likely with a ton of suits against the government by people falsely accused by the mob.
The way I see it is the most likely scenario is that the administration is caught in a catch-22 where there isn’t really any option they can take that will actually make this go away or not hurt them, and that’s a damn shame when the survival of nation may depend on the success of the Trump administration. It’s fine to ask questions about suspicious things, but the one’s running wild with accusations against the administration and Trump himself based on unproven theories and “evidence” they heard on the Internet need to stop and think about what the consequences of what they are doing are.
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