President Donald Trump on July 12 referred to as on his base of supporters to not waste time and power specializing in the main points surrounding now-deceased convicted intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein.
“What’s occurring with my ‘boys’ and, in some circumstances, ’gals?’” Trump mentioned in a July 12 publish on social media platform Fact Social. “They’re all going after Lawyer Basic Pam Bondi, who’s doing a FANTASTIC JOB! We’re on one Crew, MAGA, and I don’t like what’s taking place.
“Now we have a PERFECT Administration, THE TALK OF THE WORLD, and ’egocentric folks’ are attempting to harm it, throughout a man who by no means dies, Jeffrey Epstein.”
Trump authored the social media assertion simply days after the Justice Division concluded that Epstein took his personal life and was not holding on to a “consumer listing” of different intercourse offenders.
Epstein’s case has been the topic of intense on-line scrutiny for years, significantly after he died in federal custody in 2019 whereas awaiting prosecution on prices of participating in a multiyear conspiracy to intercourse visitors minors.
Earlier than the 2019 federal indictment, Epstein had pleaded responsible in a Florida state courtroom in 2008 to prices of soliciting prostitution and procuring a minor for prostitution. He finally served 13 months in jail following his 2008 responsible plea.
At a July 8 Cupboard assembly, a reporter requested Bondi to handle a declare that Epstein had been some type of intelligence group asset.
“I’ve no information about that,” she mentioned. “We are able to get again to you on that.”
Throughout that Cupboard assembly, Bondi additionally mentioned a lacking minute from a jail surveillance tape on the evening Epstein died was a standard circumstance as a result of a technical glitch within the digital camera system.
Trump urged that nothing within the Epstein information “might have damage the MAGA Motion.”
Trump went on to say the Justice Division and FBI have to concentrate on “arresting Thugs and Criminals” and investigating claims of election tampering in 2020 and 2024 elections “as an alternative of spending month after month nothing however the identical previous, Radical Left impressed Paperwork on Jeffrey Epstein.”
“Let Pam Bondi do her job — she’s nice!” Trump wrote in all-caps.
