"Everybody around him was kind of like, ‘oh God, we hope she won’t say anything but we really hope he doesn’t pardon her.'"

The acknowledgment represents a public walk-back of a theory that the Trump administration had helped promote, with Bondi suggesting that such a document was “sitting on my desk” for review.

Attorney General Pam Bondi is under scrutiny over assertions she’s made about a Jeffrey Epstein “client list" and the DOJ’s refusal to release more files in the Epstein case.

A video clip of Bondi’s February Fox News interview resurfaced after Axios reported on Sunday that the Department of Justice and FBI found no evidence of Epstein’s “client list.” In the interview, Bondi had suggested she currently had the “client list” on her desk.

The U.S. Justice Department and White House have scrambled this week to explain a significant walkback from promises of potentially explosive information involving accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein and his alleged clientele.

Attorney General Pam Bondi’s comments about evidence the Justice Department is reviewing from its Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking investigation have fueled anticipation about the expected release of more files related to the New York financier.

Former Fox News host Bill O’Reilly said he discussed the Jeffrey Epstein case in March with President Trump, who told him there are “a lot of names associated” with the disgraced financier for innocuous reasons.

Trump comes to Bondi’s defense amid uproar from his base over Jeffrey Epstein files flop The comments amounted to a striking rebuke of members of Trump’s base.

The Associated Press has spoken with lawyers and law enforcement officials in cases concerning Jeffrey Epstein who say they have not seen and do not know of a trove of recordings like what Attorney General Pam Bondi has described.