(Washington) Donald Trump attempted Tuesday to extinguish the growing controversy around the Epstein file, declaring that in the event of the existence of “credible” elements on this financier and his network of sexual exploitation, these should be made public, while many of his supporters say they regret a lack of transparency.
When he left the White House for Pennsylvania, the American president told the press that he would return to the head of the Department of Justice, Pam Bondi, to make public “what she considers credible”.
Donald Trump also defended his general prosecutor, target of calls for resignation since a memorandum of his services published last week buried the possibility of new developments in the Epstein case.
At a press conference on Tuesday, Pam Bondi refused to develop on the possibility that new documents are made public.
“Our memorandum talks about itself,” she said.
The death of Jeffrey Epstein, found hanged in his cell in New York in 2019 before being tried, fueled countless conspiracy theories that he was assassinated to prevent revelations relating to leading personalities suspected of pedocrime.
Photo drawn from the New York Settlement of Sexual Delinquents
Jeffrey Epstein in 2017
Figures close to Donald Trump’s “Make America Great Again” have been carrying out a campaign for several years to request the publication of documents supposedly hidden by the government.
When Donald Trump’s return to power in January, his administration was committed to “lifting the veil” on this “repugnant” affair.
But in a joint memorandum published on July 7, the Department of Justice and the FBI dismissed the thesis of the assassination in Jeffrey Epstein prison and confirmed his suicide. They also claim to have discovered any “list” of his “clients” during an in -depth examination of the entire file.
The memorandum has led to a surge of furious messages on social networks coming from “Maga” accounts.
The conservative figure Tucker Carlson, former presenter of Fox News, accused the Department of Justice of wanting to “suffocate” the truth and “insult the population”.
On Saturday on his Truth Social platform, Donald Trump had called on his supporters not to “waste time and energy on Jeffrey Epstein, which everyone doesn’t care”.
Rare fact for this social network acquired to the cause of the republican billionaire, the vast majority of comments under the message criticized these declarations.
