Karoline Leavitt Responds to Epstein Firestorm—But Sidesteps the One Question That Matters Most

Karoline Leavitt was just flooded with questions about the so-called Epstein “HOAX.”

Reporters didn’t go easy on her.

One asked why the DOJ is still holding the files instead of releasing a redacted version.

Her responses today only raised more eyebrows.

Ask Americans how they feel about the handling of the Epstein files, and you’ll hear the same answer from both sides of the aisle: total frustration.

According to a recent poll, just 3% of Americans say they’re satisfied with how the Trump administration has handled it.

Meanwhile, half the country is dissatisfied and believes the administration hasn’t been transparent.

Americans are furious because on February 21st, Pam Bondi told the world the Epstein client list was “sitting on [her] desk right now to review,” explaining it was part of a directive ordered by President Trump.

But on July 7, the Trump Justice Department concluded via internal memo that Epstein actually had no client list, didn’t blackmail anyone, and definitely killed himself.

This walking back of earlier claims has unleashed a frenzy.

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Trump Blames Democrats for “Jeffrey Epstein Hoax” – “My PAST Supporters have Bought into this ‘Bullsh*t,’ Hook, Line, and Sinker… I Don’t Want Their Support Anymore!”

President Trump released a statement on Wednesday morning, labeling the Epstrin files the Democrats’ “new SCAM” and condemning his own supporters for talking about the Epstein case.

“My PAST supporters have bought into this “bullshit,” hook, line, and sinker,” Trump said. “Let these weaklings continue forward and do the Democrats work, don’t even think about talking of our incredible and unprecedented success, because I don’t want their support anymore!”

“I have had more success in 6 months than perhaps any President in our Country’s history, and all these people want to talk about, with strong prodding by the Fake News and the success starved Dems, is the Jeffrey Epstein Hoax,” Trump added.

He also doubled down on his comparison of the Epstein files to the Steele Dossier, the Hunter Biden laptop, and Russiahoax, saying “these Scams and Hoaxes are all the Democrats are good at – It’s all they have – They are no good at governing, no good at policy, and no good at picking winning candidates.”

Full statement below:

The Radical Left Democrats have hit pay dirt, again! Just like with the FAKE and fully discredited Steel Dossier, the lying 51 “Intelligence” Agents, the Laptop from Hell, which the Dems swore had come from Russia (No, it came from Hunter Biden’s bathroom!), and even the Russia, Russia, Russia Scam itself, a totally fake and made up story used in order to hide Crooked Hillary Clinton’s big loss in the 2016 Presidential Election, these Scams and Hoaxes are all the Democrats are good at – It’s all they have – They are no good at governing, no good at policy, and no good at picking winning candidates. Also, unlike Republicans, they stick together like glue.

Their new SCAM is what we will forever call the Jeffrey Epstein Hoax, and my PAST supporters have bought into this “bullshit,” hook, line, and sinker. They haven’t learned their lesson, and probably never will, even after being conned by the Lunatic Left for 8 long years. I have had more success in 6 months than perhaps any President in our Country’s history, and all these people want to talk about, with strong prodding by the Fake News and the success starved Dems, is the Jeffrey Epstein Hoax.

Let these weaklings continue forward and do the Democrats work, don’t even think about talking of our incredible and unprecedented success, because I don’t want their support anymore! Thank you for your attention to this matter. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!

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“Just Release the Files as Promised” – Elon Musk Calls on President Trump to Release Epstein Files

In November 2024, after President Trump won the presidential reelection, former Trump administration official Kash Patel announced that under President Donald Trump’s second administration, Americans should brace for unprecedented government transparency. Kash Patel, who is currently the FBI Director, announced that massive declassification will occur under President Trump’s second term from the “Epstein Files” to the “Diddy list” and more.

Well that didn’t happen.

Last week the DOJ and FBI announced that Epstein killed himself and there was no Epstein client list.

Then following the uproar to these shocking assertions, President Trump posted a long screed over the weekend telling MAGA supporters and “selfish people” to forget about Epstein and move on.

This did not help the situation.

Elon Musk weighed in and told the president to “just release the files as promised.”

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Trump Calls Epstein List A Democrat Psyop, Tells MAGA ‘Not To Waste Time And Energy’

Less than one year ago, then-candidate Donald Trump vowed to release the Jeffrey Epstein files – aka the ‘list’ of friends and associates who violated “more than 1,000” sex-trafficked victims. 

Now, after his FBI just came out to say ‘nothing to see here!‘ (no list, and Epstein definitely killed himself), Trump just wants the whole thing to go away for some reason we can’t quite put our finger on. 

Last week Trump lashed out at a reporter for asking about Epstein, saying “Are you still talking about Jeffrey Epstein? This guy’s been talked about for years.” 

On Saturday, Trump gave a masterclass in the Streisand effect – writing in a Truth Social post “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. For years, it’s Epstein, over and over again.”

Yeah, why do people want to find out which rich and powerful men were fucking children provided by Epstein? And what did Trump mean when he said that Epstein ‘never dies’? (Maybe QAnon knows)

Trump then attempted to discredit the Epstein files, equating it to the Steele dossier…

Why are we giving publicity to Files written by Obama, Crooked Hillary, Comey, Brennan, and the Losers and Criminals of the Biden Administration, who conned the World with the Russia, Russia, Russia Hoax, 51 “Intelligence” Agents, “THE LAPTOP FROM HELL,” and more? They created the Epstein Files, just like they created the FAKE Hillary Clinton/Christopher Steele Dossier that they used on me, and now my so-called “friends” are playing right into their hands,” adding “Why didn’t these Radical Left Lunatics release the Epstein Files? If there was ANYTHING in there that could have hurt the MAGA Movement, why didn’t they use it?”

Maybe because it would implicate everyone on both sides of the aisle? 

Trump then said that the FBI should focus on voter fraud and arresting “Thugs and Criminals, instead of spending month after month looking at nothing but the same old, Radical Left inspired Documents on Jeffrey Epstein.”

“One year ago our Country was DEAD, now it’s the “HOTTEST” Country anywhere in the World. Let’s keep it that way, and not waste Time and Energy on Jeffrey Epstein, somebody that nobody cares about.”

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FBI Declines to Comment on James O’Keefe FBI Leak Where Agent Claims Law Enforcement “Turned a Blind Eye or Missed Things” in Jeffrey Epstein Case

The FBI declined to comment on a new exposé from O’Keefe Media Group and James O’Keefe, featuring a current FBI agent spilling the beans on the FBI’s cover-up of the Epstein case.  

As The Gateway Pundit reported, O’Keefe has published audio tapes of a current FBI agent revealing that the FBI “turned a blind eye” on some of the evidence in the Epstein case on Saturday.

It was previously reported that FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino erupted on Pam Bondi and took a day off as he considers resigning over mishandling of the Epstein case and lack of transparency with the American people. It was further rumored that FBI Director Kash Patel may leave the FBI over the scandal, but he called the rumors “conspiracy theories” on Saturday.

This comes after the FBI, DOJ released a 2-page memo on Sunday concluding Jeffrey Epstein did not have a “client list” and that he committed suicide. The memo also suggested that no further Epstein documents would be released to the public.

FBI Deputy Senior Intelligence Officer Rami Hasan, who said he works on “countering White supremacy things,” revealed that “law enforcement kind of either turned a blind eye or, like, missed things” in the Epstein case.

He further attacked the DOJ for their “weird” nothingburger Epstein file release to a select group of MAGA influencers in February.

He said of the FBI, “it’s a sh*t show.”

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“FBI LEAKS” – James O’Keefe Reveals Deputy Senior National Intelligence Officer Confessed Law Enforcement “Turned a Blind Eye or Missed Things” in Jeffrey Epstein Case – “It’s a Sh*t Show”

O’Keefe Media Group founder and undercover journalist James O’Keefe debuted a new series, called “FBI Leaks,” featuring a current FBI agent spilling the beans on the FBI’s cover-up of the Epstein case.  

As The Gateway Pundit reported, FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino took a day off from work after a clash with Attorney General Pam Bondi over the handling of the Epstein files, and he is rumored to be considering resigning from the Bureau.

The blowup between Bondi and Bongino happened after the FBI, DOJ released a 2-page memo on Sunday concluding Jeffrey Epstein did not have a “client list” and that he committed suicide.

The memo also suggested that no further Epstein documents would be released to the public.

It was also reported that Kash Patel is considering resigning if Bongino leaves.

The White House responded to reports on Friday, however, claiming that “the continued fixation on sowing division in President Trump’s Cabinet is baseless and unfounded in reality.”

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Pam Bondi’s DOJ Released a Video They Claimed Proved Epstein Killed Himself — This Report Proves It Doesn’t

Following a preliminary investigation—including a forensic, frame-by-frame analysis of the surveillance video recently released and cited in Pam Bondi’s DOJ memo, as well as an in-depth review of the Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC) in New York’s Special Housing Unit (SHU), including its labyrinthine floor plan and the hard limitations of the surveillance camera’s line of sight—we have reached a definitive conclusion: it is physically impossible for any viewer to see who, if anyone, entered or exited Jeffrey Epstein’s upper-level L Tier cell block during the full 10 hours, 52 minutes, and 23 seconds of footage. The camera angles simply do not—and cannot—show it. Camera lines of sight do not bend around corners.

Over the past four days, we conducted an independent, high-resolution analysis—and what we uncovered is not only indisputable, it’s damning. The video released by the Department of Justice does not, and cannot possibly, provide the definitive evidence that Jeffrey Epstein unquestionably killed himself. It fails to meet even the most basic standards of transparency—let alone proof.

They say a picture is worth a thousand words. What follows is a forensic analysis and detailed inspection of images and floor plan schematics sourced directly from the official report titled Investigation and Review of the Federal Bureau of Prisons’ Custody, Care, and Supervision of Jeffrey Epstein at the Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC) in New York, New York (Report No. 23-085), issued June 27, 2023, by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Office of the Inspector General (OIG).

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The Jeffrey Epstein Case Is Far Bigger Than Jeffrey Epstein

On Tuesday, President Trump took umbrage at a question about the Justice Department’s assertion that there are no Epstein tapes, there is no client list, and there is nothing more to be released. The Twitterverse has been brutal towards AG Pam Bondi, FBI Director Kash Patel, and his #2, Dan Bongino. Many people were saying they felt betrayed, given the fact that, before the election, we were told that the files would be released and the criminals held to account.

The president has a point. There is a lot going on in Washington. There are natural disasters with dozens dead across Texas. There are continuing ICE protests across the country. There are budgets that need to be attended to, as well as rogue judges who need to be corralled, and numerous conflicts outside our borders that need to be midwifed. And all of that besides the basic blocking and tackling of running the government and trying to advance the administration’s rather ambitious agenda. And taking the time to talk about some files from a guy who’s been dead for six years seems like it might distract from all of that.

But, you see, here’s the thing: People want answers that seem logical, that provide rational explanations to obvious questions, that provide proof that the speculation is wrong. This is particularly true when the people now saying there’s nothing there were the very people who promised that answers, transparency, and accountability would be coming when they won. Well, they won, and we’re getting the same obfuscation.

The truth is that, if this were just a matter of a senator cheating on his wife with a lobbyist for some industry he regulates, it wouldn’t really matter in the big picture. If this were some bureaucrat taking bribes to sign a service contract for some shipping company, nobody would really care. Sure, the first is an ethics question, and the second is illegal, but beyond the participants themselves, they aren’t very important in the grand scheme of things.

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The footage from Jeffery Epstein’s cell that was released by the DOJ was edited with Adobe Premiere Pro, stitched from 2 clips, and was saved 4 times

Footage tied to Jeffrey Epstein’s death in federal custody appears to have been altered before it was shared with the public—despite being presented as unedited surveillance video—according to a joint investigation by WIRED and multiple independent video forensics experts.

Here’s what the analysis uncovered:

Hidden metadata embedded in the video file revealed that the footage wasn’t a direct export from the prison’s internal surveillance system. Instead, the file had been processed—apparently using Adobe Premiere Pro, a professional-grade video editing program. Evidence suggests it was stitched together from at least two separate clips, saved multiple times, and exported before being posted on the Department of Justice’s website as if it were “raw” footage.

Experts stop short of calling it tampered or falsified; the changes may have been as mundane as formatting for public release. But without a clear chain of custody or explanation from the DOJ, the fact that professional editing software was used—and that the video underwent multiple saves—raises uncomfortable questions. In a case already surrounded by suspicion, this ambiguity adds fuel to long-simmering conspiracy theories.

Complicating matters, this week began with Axios reporting that both the FBI and DOJ had firmly concluded that Epstein died by suicide, that no “client list” existed implicating others in his sex-trafficking network, and that there was no credible evidence of a blackmail operation targeting powerful figures. The report immediately ignited political infighting among factions within the Trump administration and conservative media.

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ANOTHER MASSIVE EPSTEIN BOMBSHELL! Media Narrative Destroyed – Epstein’s Body Confirmed in His Room on Upper-Level L Tier Where They Found Him – NOT THE LOWER LEVEL FLOOR SHOWN IN VIDEO!

Jeffrey Epstein was housed in the M Tier until after he was attacked in prison. Epstein was then put on suicide watch in July. Epstein was later moved to the L Tier, the upper tier. He was found dead in his cell number 220 on August 10.

WATCH THE ENTIRE VIDEO HERE: https://www.justice.gov/video-files/video1.mp4

This Monday we broke the story that the highly anticipated 12-hour video that Dan Bongino promised the nation on Fox & Friends — a video he claimed would prove beyond any shadow of a doubt that Jeffrey Epstein killed himself — was actually missing a full minute (specifically, 61 seconds), spliced out at exactly 11:59 PM the night before Epstein was found unresponsive in his cell roughly six and a half hours later.

The internet erupted.

Let’s rewind a bit.

It’s now been 45 days (as of July 9, 2025) since Dan Bongino and Kash Patel appeared on Maria Bartiromo’s show on May 25, 2025 — the longtime Fox Business and Fox News host — where both men matter-of-factly and almost dismissively declared: Jeffrey Epstein killed himself. They didn’t provide evidence. No detailed explanation. Just confident assertions. The interview aired on May 25, 2025, and it ignited a firestorm.

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