White Home Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt holds a press briefing on the White Home in Washington, D.C., U.S., July 17, 2025.
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President Donald Trump “wouldn’t advocate a particular prosecutor” to evaluate the dealing with and information of the prison case in opposition to the late serial sexual abuser Jeffrey Epstein, the White Home mentioned Thursday.
Even so, Trump “is in settlement with a few of the leaders on Capitol Hill that if” Lawyer Common Pam Bondi and the Justice Division “come throughout every other credible proof, they need to present that to the American folks,” White Home press secretary Karoline Leavitt informed reporters.
Leavitt’s feedback come as there have been rising calls in Congress for the Justice Division to launch extra of the proof it assembled within the prison case in opposition to Epstein, who died by suicide in 2019, weeks after he was arrested on youngster intercourse trafficking expenses.
Conspiracy-minded conservative activist Laura Loomer, a fierce defender of Trump and his insurance policies, mentioned Wednesday that the “smartest thing that the president can do is appoint a particular counsel to deal with the Epstein information investigation.”
Former Trump White Home advisor Steve Bannon, one other influential voice on the far-right, additionally backs a particular counsel. “The DOJ and FBI are overwhelmed. Let the particular counsel report on to the president,” he mentioned this week on his “Struggle Room” podcast.
Bondi has infuriated a few of Trump’s most hardline supporters together with her choice in early July to not disclose any extra proof within the case.
The frustration amongst Trump’s MAGA base and criticism by Democrats, has provoked Trump to lash out, rejecting requires extra transparency in regards to the Epstein case.
U.S. financier Jeffrey Epstein seems in {a photograph} taken for the New York State Division of Felony Justice Providers’ intercourse offender registry March 28, 2017 and obtained by Reuters July 10, 2019.
New York State Division of Felony Justice Providers | Handout | Reuters
“Their new SCAM is what we are going to without end name the Jeffrey Epstein Hoax, and my PAST supporters have purchased into this ‘bull—-,’ hook, line, and sinker,” Trump mentioned in a Reality Social publish on Wednesday.
“The Radical Left Democrats have hit pay dust, once more!,” he mentioned.
Trump is a former good friend of Epstein, who socialized with many wealthy and highly effective folks, together with former President Invoice Clinton and Britain’s Prince Andrew.
Trump has mentioned he minimize ties with Epstein years earlier than the funding advisor was arrested on federal expenses.
Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel beforehand had vowed to launch proof from the Epstein information.
“This Division of Justice is following via on President Trump’s dedication to transparency and lifting the veil on the disgusting actions of Jeffrey Epstein and his co-conspirators,” Bondi mentioned in April when the DOJ launched an preliminary batch of information, a lot of which had been already publicly identified.
Patel, in the identical month, mentioned that if information associated to Epstein “have been hidden, we are going to uncover them.”
“And we are going to carry the whole lot we discover to the DOJ to be absolutely assessed and transparently disseminated to the American folks appropriately,” Patel mentioned.
Republican Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky and Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., are collectively in search of to drive a vote within the Home of Representatives calling for the discharge of the Epstein information.
On Wednesday, the Justice Division summarily fired New York federal prosecutor Maurene Comey, whose prison circumstances have included these of Epstein and his convicted procurer, Ghislaine Maxwell. Comey is the daughter of James Comey, who was fired as FBI director by Trump in 2017.
Leavitt on Thursday referred questions on Maurene Comey’s termination to the Justice Division.
Assistant U.S. Lawyer Maurene Comey exterior courtroom throughout Sean “Diddy” Combs’ intercourse trafficking trial, June 3, 2025.
Ted Shaffrey | AP
The previous prosecutor in an e-mail to colleagues earlier within the day wrote, “If a profession prosecutor could be fired with out purpose, worry could seep into the selections of those that stay,” Comey wrote.
“Concern is the instrument of a tyrant, wielded to suppress unbiased thought. As an alternative of worry, let this second gasoline the hearth that already burns within the coronary heart of this place,” she wrote within the be aware. “A hearth of righteous indignation at abuses of energy. Of dedication to hunt justice for victims.”
