Trump Defends Bondi, Urges Supporters to Move On From Epstein Files

Trump said his supporters are playing into the hands of his political rivals by focusing on the circumstances surrounding Epstein.

President Donald Trump, joined by Attorney General Pam Bondi, speaks in the briefing room at the White House on June 27, 2025. Joe Raedle/Getty Images

President Donald Trump on July 12 called on his base of supporters not to waste time and energy focusing on the details surrounding now-deceased convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

“What’s going on with my ‘boys’ and, in some cases, ’gals?'” Trump said in a July 12 post on social media platform Truth Social. “They’re all going after Attorney General Pam Bondi, who is doing a FANTASTIC JOB! We’re on one Team, MAGA, and I don’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.”

Trump authored the social media statement just days after the Justice Department concluded that Epstein took his own life and was not holding on to a “client list” of other sex offenders.

Epstein’s case has been the subject of intense online scrutiny for years, particularly after he died in federal custody in 2019 while awaiting prosecution on charges of engaging in a multiyear conspiracy to sex traffic minors.

Before the 2019 federal indictment, Epstein had pleaded guilty in a Florida state court in 2008 to charges of soliciting prostitution and procuring a minor for prostitution. He ultimately served 13 months in prison following his 2008 guilty plea.

At a July 8 Cabinet meeting, a reporter asked Bondi to address a claim that Epstein had been some form of intelligence community asset.

“I have no knowledge about that,” she said. “We can get back to you on that.”

During that Cabinet meeting, Bondi also said a missing minute from a jail surveillance tape on the night Epstein died was a normal circumstance due to a technical glitch in the camera system.

Trump suggested that nothing in the Epstein files “could have hurt the MAGA Movement.”

Trump went on to say the Justice Department and FBI need to focus on “arresting Thugs and Criminals” and investigating claims of election tampering in 2020 and 2024 elections “instead of spending month after month looking at nothing but the same old, Radical Left inspired Documents on Jeffrey Epstein.”

“Let Pam Bondi do her job — she’s great!” Trump wrote in all-caps.