{"id":1268,"date":"2025-07-09T07:42:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T07:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thefridaynews.com\/?p=1268"},"modified":"2025-07-09T07:46:31","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T07:46:31","slug":"us-justice-department-clears-epstein-files-finds-no-incriminating-client-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thefridaynews.com\/?p=1268","title":{"rendered":"US JUSTICE DEPARTMENT CLEARS EPSTEIN FILES, FINDS NO INCRIMINATING CLIENT LIST"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>United States President Donald Trump\u2019s Justice Department scrambled on Tuesday to answer questions after its leadership concluded there was no evidence to support a number of long-held conspiracy theories about the death of accused&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1492768\/us-financier-epstein-arrested-on-sex-charges\">sex trafficker<\/a>&nbsp;Jeffrey Epstein and his alleged clientele.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Conservative influencers from&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/LauraLoomer\/status\/1942373944377463168\">Laura Loomer<\/a>&nbsp;to&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1942132189229162960\">Elon Musk<\/a>&nbsp;have criticised Attorney General Pam Bondi and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director Kash Patel for their findings, which came months after Bondi pledged to reveal major revelations about Epstein, including \u201ca lot of names\u201d and \u201ca lot of flight logs\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s sitting on my desk right now to review,\u201d Bondi&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/bondi-says-epstein-client-list-sitting-my-desk-right-now-reviewing-jfk-mlk-files\">told&nbsp;<em>Fox News<\/em><\/a>&nbsp;in February when she was asked if the Justice Department would be releasing Epstein\u2019s client list.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Tuesday at the White House, Bondi walked that comment back, telling reporters that she was referring to the entire Epstein \u201cfile\u201d along with other files pertaining to the assassinations of John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. \u201cThat\u2019s what I meant by that,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She added that the many of the videos in the Epstein investigative file \u201cturned out to be child porn\u201d. This material, she added, is \u201cnever going to be released. 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