President Donald Trump was told in May by the DOJ Attorney General Pam Bondi that his name was in the Jeffrey Epstein files, according to a bombshell report published by The Wall Street Journal on Wednesday.
The private meeting reportedly took place in the White House and included Bondi and her deputy, Todd Blanche. Sources familiar with the discussion say Trump was briefed on the sensitive nature of the records, many of which contain the names of various high-profile individuals—Trump among them—who were either mentioned in association with Jeffrey Epstein or had socialized with him in the past.
According to the Journal, Bondi told the President that the files included what officials considered “unverified hearsay,” and emphasized that merely being named in the documents was not indicative of wrongdoing. She also reportedly reassured the President that many of the mentions amounted to secondhand allegations that lacked corroborative evidence.
Yet the revelation added fuel to an already growing fire among Trump’s MAGA base, many of whom have long demanded transparency surrounding Epstein’s extensive social and financial networks. The outrage deepened in July when the DOJ announced it would not publicly release the Jeffrey Epstein files, a reversal from Bondi’s earlier