President Donald Trump sharply criticized a reporter for asking a question about deceased pedophile Jeffrey Epstein amid the devastating Texas flash flooding that has killed more than 100 people, including dozens of children.
“Are you still talking about Jeffrey Epstein? Been talked about for years. You’re asking, we have Texas, we have this, we have all of the things, and are people still talking about this guy, this creep?” Trump asked at Tuesday’s Cabinet meeting. “That is unbelievable.”
“I can’t believe you’re asking a question on Epstein at a time like this, where we’re having some of the greatest success and tragedy with what happened in Texas, it just seems like a desecration,” the president added.
Attorney General Pam Bondi then sought to explain why the public has not gained access to more of the Epstein files as promised.
In February, Bondi said the file was on her desk for review, but rather than a list of names of prominent people who visited the multimillionaire’s private island, the file contained child porn.
“The tens of thousands of videos, they turned out to be child porn downloaded by that disgusting Jeffrey Epstein,” Bondi said. “Child porn is what they were, never released, never going to see the light of day.”
Bondi said she has no knowledge of Epstein being a foreign agent, though she promised to look into it.
The Justice Department released a video showing the prison around the time of Epstein’s reported suicide, but the video was not conclusive, Bondi said, because one minute of recording was missing.
“We’re looking for that video, to release that as well, showing that a minute is missing every night,” Bondi said. “And that’s it on Epstein.”
At Monday’s briefing, press secretary Karoline Leavitt answered a question about the absence of the Epstein client list.
“So, what happened to the Epstein client list that the attorney general said that she had on her desk?” Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy asked Leavitt.
“Well, I think if you go back and look at what the attorney general said in that interview with your network, on Fox News,” Leavitt began.
“I got the quote,” Doocy said. “[Fox News Anchor] John Roberts said, the DOJ may be releasing the list of Jeffrey Epstein clients. Will that really happen?’ And [Bondi] said, ‘It’s sitting right now on my desk to review.‘”
“Yes, she was saying the entirety of all of the paperwork, all of the paper in relation to Jeffrey Epstein crimes,” Leavitt responded. “That’s what the attorney general was referring to.”