President Donald Trump on Tuesday snapped at a reporter for asking about Jeffrey Epstein amid backlash to the Department of Justice’s handling of the issue.
“Are you still talking about Jeffrey Epstein?” he asked. “This guy’s been talked about for years… are people still talking about this creep? That is UNBELIEVABLE! I can’t believe you’re asking a question on Epstein.”
He then turned to Attorney General Pam Bondi and asked her “do you want to waste your time?”
Bondi then opted to answer the reporter’s question and insisted that when she said the Epstein list was on her desk, that she had meant the documents related to the case.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt on Monday gave the same explanation to Fox News’s Peter Doocy, though he referenced Bondi’s direct quote in which she was asked “DOJ may be releasing the list of Jeffrey Epstein’s clients. Will that really happen?”
“It’s sitting on my desk right now to review,” was Bondi’s reply.
