Attorney General Pam Bondi dismissed allegations that the Jeffrey Epstein files are missing, stating that the FBI is reviewing “tens of thousands” of the disgraced financier with children.
After a reporter asked Bondi on Wednesday morning whether the documents were “missing,” she said: “No, the FBI, they’re reviewing tens of thousands of videos of Epstein with children or child porn.”
“The FBI is diligently going through that,” she continued, noting the large volume of files. She added: “There are hundreds of victims.”
On the campaign trail, Donald Trump committed to releasing the documents related to the disgraced financier, who was accused of sex trafficking of minors. Epstein died behind bars in 2019 awaiting his sex trafficking trial.
The attorney general’s update comes after questions have swirled in recent weeks over when the next batch of Epstein files would be released.
Bondi released the “first phase” of declassified files on February 27. Last week, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt fielded a question about when the “bulk of the files” are expected to be released, to which she said she doesn’t have a “specific timeline.”
“I can assure you that the Attorney General and her team are working on this diligently,” Leavitt said, before calling Bondi a “bulldog.”
Last month, a reporter asked President Donald Trump when the public could expect to see the release of more documents. He said he wasn’t sure but that he’d speak to the attorney general for more information.
“I do know that we’ve done the RFK, the Kennedy, Martin Luther King is out there very shortly, so we’ll find out,” Trump added. “We’ve really announced we’re doing them in full transparency.”
Bondi’s remarks also come weeks after one of Epstein’s most outspoken victims, Virginia Giuffre, died in an apparent suicide in Australia last week.
Her father, however, believes “somebody got to her.”
“I believed everything she said,” Sky Roberts, her father, said. “She was my daughter.”
