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Trump’s base doesn’t want excuses—they want Epstein’s client list and the truth about TWA 800, not another cover-up dressed in national security. Recent media reports claimed that FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino was livid over a memo issued by the Justice Department last week stating that there was no Jeffrey Epstein “client list” and no further records from the Epstein file would be released. Nothing to see here. Move on. Bongino was reportedly threatening to resign if Attorney General Pam Bondi didn’t resign over her seeming incompetence. If accurate, I think Bongino was right to take a hard line on...

President Trump’s claim that some of the Epstein files are ‘made up’ by Democrats and the FBI makes a lot more sense now. When President Trump first started ranting, really out of nowhere, about the so-called “Epstein files” being “made up” by his Democrat predecessors, as well as former F.B.I. Director James Comey, it was bizarre and suspiciously defensive. It’s now a lot less weird and a lot less suspicious. The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday on a “leather-bound book” containing, among other things, a doodle of a naked woman’s body framing an odd “typewritten” note, both supposedly penned by...

The Wall Street Journal, and Rupert Murdoch, personally, were warned directly by President Donald J. Trump that the supposed letter they printed by President Trump to Epstein was a FAKE and, if they print it, they will be sued. Mr. Murdoch stated that he would take care of it but, obviously, did not have the power to do so. The Editor of The Wall Street Journal, Emma Tucker, was told directly by Karoline Leavitt, and by President Trump, that the letter was a FAKE, but Emma Tucker didn’t want to hear that. Instead, they are going with a false, malicious,...

🚨 BREAKING: AG Pam Bondi has fired Maurene Comey, daughter of James Comey, from her role as top DOJ prosecutor in Manhattan. pic.twitter.com/UcXj5Au0IZ— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) July 16, 2025

A day after a leaks war played out in the media over the (mis)handling of the Epstein files by Attorney General Pan Bondi that started with reports that a disgruntled Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino had not come to work on Friday and featured rumors of threatened resignations and demands for her firing, FBI Director Kash Patel finally spoke out about the controversy. Patel’s comment, posted to his personal X account, will not put the matter to rest, but his statement on his tenure as FBI director is pretty definitive: “The conspiracy theories just aren’t true, never have been. It’s...

The White House released a statement on the Bondi, Bongino clash on Friday afternoon. Earlier Friday it was reported that FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino took a day off from work after a clash with Attorney General Pam Bondi over the handling of the Epstein files. The blowup between Bondi and Bongino happened after the FBI, DOJ released a 2-page memo on Sunday concluding Jeffrey Epstein did not have a “client list” and that he committed suicide. “Bongino did not report to work Friday amid speculation about his whereabouts, said a source familiar with the perspectives of DOJ leaders who...

Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino has told people he is considering resigning amid a major clash between the FBI and Justice Department over the continued fallout from the release of the Jeffrey Epstein memo, several sources familiar with the matter told CNN. This comes after a heated confrontation with Attorney General Pam Bondi over the handling of the case earlier this week. The infighting over the case came to a head during a Wednesday meeting, which included Bongino, Bondi, FBI Director Kash Patel and White House chief of staff Susie Wiles, sources said. Bongino and Patel were confronted about whether...

Convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein died by suicide in August 2019 at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York.Attorney General Pam Bondi is pushing back against criticism over her handling of the Justice Department's review into convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.In February, Bondi was asked on Fox News whether the Department of Justice would release a list of Epstein's clients.She responded, “It’s sitting on my desk to review. That’s been a directive by President Trump.”RELATED STORY | Epstein investigation turned up no 'incriminating client list,' FBI saysOn Monday, the Department of Justice and the FBI released a joint memo stating...

Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson 🚨WATCH: CNN’s Jake Tapper says the Epstein case is NOT closed and there’s a trove of evidence being hidden from the public. He then demands it all be released: “There's a trove of information that the Trump administration is right now refusing to share, information that could well point to the powerful folks who availed themselves of the sex trafficking victims of Jeffrey Epstein.” “So, while there may not be an official client list to be released.. There's a lot of extra information that is not being made public.. This isn't going to go away. The public…...

The government is lying about Jeffrey Epstein. Either they were lying then, or they’re lying now, maybe both. They don’t get to claim that there are no client lists after issuing statements going back over a decade saying there were “client lists.”Were they lying then when they described Epstein as a “large trafficking ring”? Or are they lying now when claiming that the “ring” consisted of exactly two people and Prince Andrew?# Was the government lying then when they said they had thousands of hours of videos showing the most disgusting things imaginable? Or are they lying now when they...

On Sunday night AXIOS reported on a new FBI, DOJ memo obtained by Axios concludes Jeffrey Epstein did not have a client list that he used for blackmail. The FBI earlier determined that Epstein did commit suicide in August 2019. And the DOJ-FBI also released a 10-hour video on Sunday from outside Jeffrey Epstein’s jail cell. But now we can confirm that an entire minute was cut from the DOJ video that was released last night. Why? What are they hiding? If you follow the full video you can see for yourself that the video is cut off at 11:59:00....

Mike Benz is asking the right questions..

On Sunday night the Department of Justice and FBI released a document that concluded that notorious child predator Jeffrey Epstein did not have a “client list” and that he was not murdered but committed suicide. The FBI released a video that shows an empty hallway in what they insist proves Epstein committed suicide. The FBI memo says there is no evidence that Epstein blackmailed powerful political figures. Additionally, the memo suggests that no further Epstein records will be released. ... Back in July 2022, The Gateway Pundit lawyers Marc Randazza and Jay Wolman of the Randazza Legal Group, along with...