White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt holds a property briefing astatine the White House successful Washington, D.C., U.S., July 17, 2025.
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President Donald Trump "would not urge a peculiar prosecutor" to reappraisal the handling and files of the criminal lawsuit against the precocious serial intersexual abuser Jeffrey Epstein, the White House said Thursday.
Even so, Trump "is successful statement with immoderate of the leaders connected Capitol Hill that if" Attorney General Pam Bondi and the Justice Department "come crossed immoderate different credible evidence, they should supply that to the American people," White House property caput Karoline Leavitt told reporters.
Leavitt's comments travel arsenic determination person been expanding calls successful Congress for the Justice Department to merchandise much of the grounds it assembled successful the transgression lawsuit against Epstein, who died by termination successful 2019, weeks aft helium was arrested connected kid enactment trafficking charges.
Conspiracy-minded blimpish activistic Laura Loomer, a fierce defender of Trump and his policies, said Wednesday that the "best happening that the president tin bash is name a peculiar counsel to grip the Epstein files investigation."
Former Trump White House advisor Steve Bannon, different influential dependable connected the far-right, besides backs a peculiar counsel. "The DOJ and FBI are overwhelmed. Let the peculiar counsel study straight to the president," helium said this week connected his "War Room" podcast.
Bondi has infuriated immoderate of Trump's astir hardline supporters with her determination successful aboriginal July not to disclose immoderate much grounds successful the case.
The vexation among Trump's MAGA basal and disapproval by Democrats, has provoked Trump to lash out, rejecting calls for much transparency astir the Epstein case.
U.S. financier Jeffrey Epstein appears successful a photograph taken for the New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services' enactment offender registry March 28, 2017 and obtained by Reuters July 10, 2019.
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"Their caller SCAM is what we volition everlastingly telephone the Jeffrey Epstein Hoax, and my PAST supporters person bought into this 'bull----,' hook, line, and sinker," Trump said successful a Truth Social post connected Wednesday.
"The Radical Left Democrats person deed wage dirt, again!," helium said.
Trump is simply a former friend of Epstein, who socialized with galore affluent and almighty people, including erstwhile President Bill Clinton and Britain's Prince Andrew.
Trump has said helium chopped ties with Epstein years earlier the concern advisor was arrested connected national charges.
Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel antecedently had vowed to merchandise grounds from the Epstein files.
"This Department of Justice is pursuing done connected President Trump's committedness to transparency and lifting the veil connected the disgusting actions of Jeffrey Epstein and his co-conspirators," Bondi said successful April erstwhile the DOJ released an archetypal batch of records, overmuch of which were already publically known.
Patel, successful the aforesaid month, said that if records related to Epstein "have been hidden, we volition uncover them."
"And we volition bring everything we find to the DOJ to beryllium afloat assessed and transparently disseminated to the American radical arsenic it should be," Patel said.
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Republican Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky and Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., are jointly seeking to unit a ballot successful the House of Representatives calling for the merchandise of the Epstein records.
On Wednesday, the Justice Department summarily fired New York national authoritative Maurene Comey, whose transgression cases person included those of Epstein and his convicted procurer, Ghislaine Maxwell. Comey is the girl of James Comey, who was fired arsenic FBI manager by Trump successful 2017.
Leavitt connected Thursday referred questions astir Maurene Comey's termination to the Justice Department.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Maurene Comey extracurricular tribunal during Sean "Diddy" Combs' enactment trafficking trial, June 3, 2025.
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The erstwhile authoritative successful an email to colleagues earlier successful the time wrote, "If a vocation authoritative tin beryllium fired without reason, fearfulness whitethorn seep into the decisions of those who remain," Comey wrote.
"Fear is the instrumentality of a tyrant, wielded to suppress autarkic thought. Instead of fear, fto this infinitesimal substance the occurrence that already burns successful the bosom of this place," she wrote successful the note. "A occurrence of righteous indignation astatine abuses of power. Of committedness to question justness for victims."
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