Pam Bondi sidelined by sudden medical condition after bombshell report claims AG told Trump he was in Epstein files
Pam Bondi abruptly canceled her appearance at a high-profile anti-trafficking summit on Wednesday, citing a sudden medical emergency.
The attorney general – who has been under siege over the Epstein files – was scheduled to appear at CPAC’s Summit Against Human Trafficking when a speaker at the event made the stunning announcement.
‘I do have a note from the attorney general, from Attorney General Pam Bondi, that I wanted to share,’ Acting Assistant Attorney General Matthew R. Galeotti said.
He then read her statement aloud: ‘I’m sorry to miss all of my CPAC friends today…’
‘Unfortunately, I am recovering from a recently torn cornea, which is preventing me from being with you. I truly wish I was able to join you and support all of the work being done on this critical issue.’
At the conclusion of the statement, Galeotti laughed nervously as scattered applause came from the audience.
‘We appreciate the applause for her and not boos for me,’ he joked. ‘So I will do my best to fill those big shoes.’
Several people can be seen walking out of the conference after it was revealed the attorney general would not be speaking.
The Department of Justice did not provide any further information about Bondi’s condition.
Her injury came just hours after a bombshell report claimed she personally informed President Trump that his name appeared ‘multiple times’ in the Jeffrey Epstein files.
Attorney General Pam Bondi abruptly canceled her appearance at a high-profile anti-trafficking summit on Wednesday, citing a sudden medical emergency
The timing came just as a bombshell report dropped alleging she personally informed Donald Trump that his name appeared ‘multiple times’ in the explosive Jeffrey Epstein files
Bondi’s appearance at the CPAC summit was highly-anticipated given her central role in the administration’s long-promised disclosures about the billionaire pedophile.
Adding to the intrigue, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday that Bondi had informed President Trump in May that his name appeared more frequently than expected in the trove of sealed Epstein files.
Bondi had warned Trump that while the documents included ‘unverified hearsay,’ they also contained child pornography and sensitive victim information. She also advised against further public releases, the WSJ said.
The Journal’s report directly contradicts Trump’s public statements about the drama surrounding the Epstein files.
On July 15, when asked whether his name came up in a briefing with Bondi about the Epstein records, Trump replied bluntly: ‘No, no.’
He described the meeting as ‘just a very quick briefing,’ and accused former FBI Director James Comey of ‘making up’ the contents of the files.
Trump’s communications director, Steven Cheung, slammed the Journal’s reporting as ‘fake news,’ responding to the Daily Mail in a statement.
‘The fact is that the President kicked [Epstein] out of his club for being a creep,’ Cheung said. ‘This is nothing more than a continuation of the fake news stories concocted by the Democrats and the liberal media, just like the Obama Russiagate scandal, which President Trump was right about.’
But the Journal’s reporting was backed by multiple senior officials, who said Bondi and Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche briefed Trump as part of a ‘routine meeting.’
When speaking to reporters on July 15 (pictured), Trump claimed that Bondi had not discussed in a meeting on the Epstein files that his name appeared in the documents
A message calling on President Donald Trump to release all files related to Jeffrey Epstein is projected onto the Chamber of Commerce building across from the White House last week
The Journal also noted that Bondi recommended withholding additional Epstein documents due to their inclusion of graphic material and potential privacy violations.
‘They turned out to be child porn downloaded by that disgusting Jeffrey Epstein,’ Bondi said at a July 8 cabinet meeting. ‘Never going to be released, never going to see the light of day.’
Bondi’s explanation has done little to quell outrage particularly from Trump’s MAGA base, which has grown increasingly hostile towards over what they see as stall tactics and contradictions.
Her promise earlier this year on Fox News that she had the Epstein ‘client list’ on her desk proved hollow, as the long-awaited ‘Phase I’ release offered no significant revelations.
A leaked DOJ-FBI memo later revealed that no such ‘client list’ had ever been located in agency files.
The backlash has ignited conspiracies of a cover-up and infighting within pro-Trump circles.
Calls to release everything have grown louder, and some prominent MAGA influencers have demanded Bondi’s resignation.
The administration’s failure to deliver on the campaign promise of transparency in the Epstein case is becoming a political flashpoint.
It has been known for years that Trump is among the trove of documents in the so-called Epstein files that includes his ‘black book’ of contacts and his flight logs for his private plane
Trump has had recent beef with the Wall Street Journal, threatening to sue the publication and its owner Rupert Murdoch for publishing last week a piece claiming he sent Epstein a 50th birthday card with a hand-drawn outline of a naked women.
The paper claims that Trump wrote in the card’s note: ‘May every day be another wonderful secret.’
‘I never wrote a picture in my life. I don’t draw pictures of women,’ Trump fired back when asked if he transmitted such a card. ‘It’s not my language. It’s not my words.’
Legal experts say such a defamation lawsuit would be difficult to win, but the threat underscores the president’s rising frustration with how the Epstein story is dominating headlines – and damaging his team’s credibility.
