President Donald Trump lashed out at a reporter Tuesday during a Cabinet meeting for bringing up Jeffrey Epstein, calling the deceased financier “this creep.”
“Can I just interrupt for one second?” Trump said when the question was directed at Attorney General Pam Bondi. “Are you still talking about Jeffrey Epstein?” He continued, “This guy's been talked about for years… And people are still talking about this guy, this creep? That is unbelievable.”
Trump made it clear he wasn’t interested in revisiting the topic. “Do you want to waste the time?” he said to Bondi. She replied, “I don't mind answering,” but Trump jumped in again, scolding the reporter: “I mean, I can't believe you're asking a question on Jeffrey Epstein. At a time like this, where we're having some of the greatest success and also tragedy with what happened in Texas. It just seems like a desecration.”
The Department of Justice and FBI recently released a memo claiming there is no Epstein client list and that Epstein did, in fact, commit suicide in his jail cell in 2019. The memo was intended to put longstanding speculation to rest.
The reporter had asked whether Epstein was connected to U.S. or foreign intelligence and why a minute of footage from Epstein’s final moments was missing. Bondi responded, clarifying her past remarks from a February Fox News interview: “I was asked a question about the client list, and my response was, ‘it’s sitting on my desk to be reviewed,’ meaning the file along with the JFK, MLK files.”
Bondi also addressed the issue of missing jail footage. “The minute missing from the video… we released the video showing definitively that the video was not conclusive, but the evidence prior to it was – showing he committed suicide,” she explained. “Every night the video is reset… so every night should have the same minute missing.”
She denied any knowledge of Epstein being linked to an intelligence agency, but said she would follow up. “That’s it on Epstein,” Bondi concluded firmly.
Despite the DOJ’s findings, public skepticism surrounding Epstein’s death and alleged ties to the elite remain intense — a topic Trump clearly views as a distraction.