President Donald Trump’s MAGA base has erupted in outrage over the Justice Department and FBI’s memo stating they discovered no proof that infamous deceased financier Jeffrey Epstein saved a “shopper checklist,” with lots of the president’s most loyal allies blasting the administration’s management.
A few of Trump’s most die-hard supporters have spent the previous day blasting FBI Director Kash Patel and Deputy Director Dan Bongino, each one-time MAGA-world darlings themselves, over the Epstein memo. Nevertheless, the harshest backlash appears to be focused on Attorney General Pam Bondi, with many pro-Trump voices criticizing her over her combined messaging concerning the Epstein recordsdata and a number of supporters calling for her to resign.
This photograph offered by the New York State Intercourse Offender Registry reveals Jeffrey Epstein, March 28, 2017.
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Bondi had beforehand promised the general public launch of scores of data related to federal probes into Epstein, although in latest interviews she has claimed the delay was attributed to “tens of hundreds” of movies inside FBI’s possession displaying potential pornography of minors.
Throughout a Fox Information interview in February, Bondi instructed an alleged Epstein “shopper checklist” was sitting on her desk — although no “shopper checklist” has been disclosed, and a number of sources have informed ABC Information that no such checklist has ever surfaced.
Lawyer Basic Pam Bondi speaks throughout a information convention with President Donald Trump within the Brady Briefing Room of the White Home, June 27, 2025, in Washington.
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Requested about Bondi’s feedback in regards to the checklist, White Home press secretary Karoline Leavitt claimed Bondi wasn’t referring to any “shopper checklist.”
“She was saying the whole thing of all the paperwork, all the paper in relation to Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes. That is what the legal professional normal was referring to,” Leavitt stated throughout the White Home press briefing Monday.
On Tuesday, Bondi stated she was referring to a file on Epstein.
“In February, I did an interview on Fox, and it has been getting a variety of consideration as a result of I stated I used to be requested a query in regards to the shopper checklist, and my response was, it is sitting on my desk to be reviewed, which means the file together with the JFK, MLK recordsdata as effectively. That is what I meant by that,” Bondi stated throughout a Cupboard assembly.
When the query was first posed to Bondi, Trump interrupted, shutting down the query.
“Are you continue to speaking about Jeffrey Epstein? This man’s been talked about for years. You are asking. Now we have Texas, we’ve got this. Now we have all the issues. And are individuals nonetheless speaking about this man, this creep? That’s unbelievable. Do you need to waste the time? And do you’re feeling like answering?” Trump stated.
Bondi responded that she did not thoughts answering.
In late February, Bondi handed out binders with Epstein case recordsdata to pro-Trump social media influencers on the White Home — recordsdata that finally contained little new info. As ABC Information reported on the time, the transfer caught White Home officers off guard and outraged some supporters of the president, who had been promised that extra particulars can be made public.
On this Feb. 27, 2025, file photograph, political commentator Rogan O’Handley, aka DC Draino, TikToker Chaya Raichik, conservative activist Scott Presler, commentator Liz Wheeler and conservative political commentator Chad Prather carry binders bearing the seal of the US Justice Division studying “The Epstein Information: Part 1” as they stroll out of the West Wing of the White Home in Washington, D.C.
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Now, Trump supporters are voicing their frustrations with Bondi — and others saying the Trump administration is concerned in a cover-up.
Far-right activist Laura Loomer has called for Bondi to resign. Former Trump adviser Steve Bannon spoke at length in regards to the memo on his fashionable “Conflict Room” present on Monday, even questioning if the administration is as clear because it claims it might be. Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has accused the Trump administration of being a part of a “cover-up” and at one level posted a video from his automotive the place he broke down in tears speaking about it.
Loomer is not the one MAGA world voice calling for Bondi to resign. Professional-Trump influencers the Hodgetwins additionally called on Trump to fire Bondi — and so did American conservative political commentator Liz Wheeler. Mike Cernovich, a previous Pizzagate conspiracy pusher, posted that “Nobody is believing the Epstein coverup, @realDonaldTrump. This will probably be a part of your legacy. There’s nonetheless time to vary it!”
Michael Flynn, who served in Trump’s first administration and was pardoned by the president, known as the Trump administration’s memo “one other brutal and stark instance of the 2 completely different requirements we seem to stick to in the US” in a social media post on Monday — including, “This has to vary and rapidly.”
The response from MAGA influencers who really feel betrayed by the Justice Division memo marks a few of the most vocal backlash Trump’s administration has confronted from his personal loyal supporters throughout his second time period.
The Epstein recordsdata for years have been the topic of widespread hypothesis and conspiracy theories that the federal government was protecting up info and a supposed “shopper checklist” to guard highly effective businessmen and politicians.
Now, Trump’s administration — being led by a few of the similar MAGA voices comparable to Patel, who as soon as pushed the thought of a cover-up — is attempting to clarify that no such proof exists.
