Trump blows up at reporter over Jeffrey Epstein ‘missing minute’ question: ‘Seems like a desecration’
President Donald Trump accused a reporter of being disrespectful for asking Attorney General Pam Bondi about the Jeffrey Epstein case “at a time like this.”
“Are you still talking about Jeffrey Epstein? This guy’s been talked about for years,” Trump told the reporter Tuesday afternoon.
The president said media attention should be focused on the Texas flooding deaths and the cabinet meeting Trump was holding Tuesday.
“We have Texas, we have this … and are people still talking about this guy? This creep? That is unbelievable,” Trump said.
“I mean, I can’t believe you’re asking a questions on Epstein at a time like this when we’re having some of the greatest success and also tragedy with what happened at Texas,” the president continued. “It just seems like a desecration.”
Bondi said she had no problem answering the reporters questions on whether Epstein worked for a U.S. or Israeli intelligence agency — Bondi said she would have to look into it — or why a minute was missing from the 11-hour jailhouse video released by authorities Monday.
The missing minute has fueled conspiracy theories that Epstein did not kill himself.
The attorney general said the minute gets erased every time the Federal Bureau of Prisons resets jail videos, so “every night should have the same minute missing.”
“So we’re looking for that video to release that as well to show that a minute is missing every night,” Bondi said. “And that’s it on Epstein.”
Bondi’s statements came a day after the Justice Department and the FBI said a list of Epstein’s clients does not exist despite Bondi confirming a client list during a Fox News interview in February.
Bondi claimed she misspoke during the interview and that she intended to say that files, not a a list of clients who received trafficked underage girls from Epstein, were on her desk.
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