President Trump came to the defense of Attorney General Pam Bondi Saturday night — just hours after FBI Director Kash Patel dismissed resignation rumors amid growing tensions over the Justice Department’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein probe.
Despite reports of internal turmoil and mounting calls for Bondi’s resignation, Trump praised the work of his attorney general and urged Americans to stop wasting “time and energy” on Epstein.
“What’s going on with my ‘boys’ and, in some cases, ‘gals?’ They’re all going after Attorney General Pam Bondi, who is doing a FANTASTIC JOB!” Trump, wrote on Truth Social.
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“We’re on one Team, MAGA, and I don’t like what’s happened. 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,” the president continued.
“LET PAM BONDI DO HER JOB – SHE’S GREAT! 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.”
Trump’s remarks come on the heels of reports of a fiery showdown between FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino and Bondi at the White House earlier this week.
The explosive exchange erupted after a Justice Department review of the late pedophile’s case found no smoking-gun evidence about his death or the notorious “client list” officials now say never existed.
Bongino – who had long speculated there was more to the Epstein file than officials were telling before entering government service – took a personal day Friday to consider resigning after less than four months on the job, a source familiar with the matter told The Post.
The source added that his relationship with Bondi is now beyond repair – and warned that if he walks, Patel might not be far behind.
But Patel took to social media Saturday afternoon to squash those “conspiracy theories.”
“The conspiracy theories just aren’t true, never have been,” Patel posted on X.
“It’s an honor to serve the President of the United States @realDonaldTrump – and I’ll continue to do so for as long as he calls on me.”
Internal matters came to a head after the Department of Justice concluded a probe into the circumstances surrounding Epstein’s death at the Metropolitan Correctional center on Aug. 10, 2019, weeks after being charged with sex trafficking dozens of girls.
The investigation included a pile of documents that Bondi told Fox News in February were on her desk at the Justice Department “to be reviewed,” appearing to confirm those papers included the perv’s infamous “client list.”
She also suggested the FBI’s New York Field Office was “in possession of thousands of pages of documents related to the investigation and indictment of Epstein.”
But Bondi’s department released a two-page memo Monday stating that “systematic review” of evidence concluded that the 66-year-old died by suicide after impacting “over one thousand victims” and there had been “no incriminating ‘client list.’”
