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President Donald Trump took to Truth Social on Saturday to defend his Attorney General Pam Bondi after major figures within the MAGA movement attacked her following the decision not to release the Epstein files.
“What’s going on with my ‘boys’ and, in some cases, ‘gals?’” Trump wrote on his social media platform. “They’re all going after Attorney General Pam Bondi, who is doing a FANTASTIC JOB!”
The president went on to urge his supporters to unify, saying he doesn’t “like what’s happening.”
“We have a PERFECT Administration, THE TALK OF THE WORLD, and ‘selfish people’ are trying to hurt it, all over a guy who never dies, Jeffrey Epstein,” said Trump.
Both FBI Director Kash Patel and Deputy Director Dan Bongino have reportedly considered leaving the administration over the Epstein files. Meanwhile, Trump ally and conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer has been pushing for Bondi’s removal. Bongino didn’t turn up for work on Friday, according to an Axios report.
open image in gallery “Are you still talking about Jeffrey Epstein?" Trump asked a reporter on July 8 after they asked about the DOJ's "no client list" reveal ( Getty Images )
Loomer posted on X later on Saturday: “People make their own choices and decisions, but mark my word, the lack of actual results at the DOJ and lack of transparency that translates into incompetence will cost the GOP House and Senate seats. Don’t say I didn’t warn you.”
The Trump administration faced significant backlash this week after a Department of Justice memo stated that Epstein, the disgraced financier and convicted sex offender who died by suicide in a Manhattan jail cell in 2019, had no secret client list, going against Bondi’s claim in February that it was “sitting on my desk.”
In the face of conspiracy theories, Bondi also reaffirmed that Epstein died by suicide by strangulation, upsetting top MAGA supporters who had expected that major revelations would be made.
More than a month ago, as the feud between Trump and billionaire and former DOGE head Elon Musk spilled into public view, Musk claimed that the president appears in the Epstein files — redacted court documents that reveal the names of his alleged associates and victims. Epstein died after being indicted on federal sex trafficking charges.
On Friday, former first-term Trump White House strategist Steve Bannon appeared at a MAGA youth event where attendees said Trump “has become the deep state” because he is “covering up for pedophiles.”
Trump asked Saturday why any publicity would be given to what he claimed was files authored by former President Barack Obama, former Secretary of State and his 2016 rival Hillary Clinton, former FBI Director James Comey, former CIA Director John Brennan, and “the Losers and Criminals of the Biden Administration, who conned the World with the Russia, Russia, Russia Hoax, 51 ‘Intelligence’ Agents, ‘THE LAPTOP FROM HELL,’ and more?”
open image in gallery FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino was missing from work Friday after an argument with Attorney General Pam Bondi, a new report reveals ( Getty Images )
The president, who presented no evidence for his claims, said that “they created the Epstein files” as well as the “FAKE Hillary Clinton/Christopher Steele Dossier.”
“Now my so-called ‘friends’ are playing right into their hands,” he added, asking why “these radical left lunatics” didn’t release files.
“If there was ANYTHING in there that could have hurt the MAGA Movement, why didn’t they use it?” he asked, before going on to call on Patel and the FBI to instead focus on several issues important to the president, such as the false claim that the 2020 election was stolen.
“LET PAM BONDI DO HER JOB — SHE’S GREAT!” he wrote.
“One year ago our Country was DEAD, now it’s the ‘HOTTEST’ Country anywhere in the World. Let’s keep it that way, and not waste Time and Energy on Jeffrey Epstein, somebody that nobody cares about,” he said.
Ok-Garcia-5605 on July 12nd, 2025 at 22:01 UTC »
"Files written by Obama, Hilary.......They created"
I guess he just found out recently he's all over in the list.
UncomfyPerspective on July 12nd, 2025 at 21:58 UTC »
Our pedo-in-chief REALLY wants you to stop asking questions about how many children he's abused and why he's protecting elite pedophiles.
They also want you to believe they're 'protecting the children'.
Donald Trump IS the deep state swamp they've railed against all along.
Now MAGA is twisting themselves into pretzels to fawn over a child rapist.
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Edit: The Twitter permission structure is starting to break down. They're falling like dominoes. Catturd still holds strong as a Ride-or-Die.
This Twitter update brought to you by me torching my own sanity.
AskRedditOG on July 12nd, 2025 at 21:55 UTC »
This is genuinely one of the most pathetic things I've ever read from a sitting President. In fact it may be the worst. This is like reading an unhinged post from a Q-anon conspiracy nut who hasn't taken his meds in the past month.
We NEED to drive the Epstein issue as hard as we can. We cannot give up this opportunity.