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A Department of Justice memo says there is no evidence Epstein kept a "client list" or blackmailed prominent individuals.

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-- Newsweek (@newsweek.com) Jul 7, 2025 at 5:48 AM

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Pam Bondi in February: The Epstein client list is sitting on my desk right now to review.

Pam Bondi today: There is no Epstein client list and no "further disclosure" of Epstein-related material "would be appropriate or warranted."

#1 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-07-06 10:42 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 3

no "further disclosure" of Epstein-related material "would be appropriate or warranted."

Why would she be covering up for Bubba?

#2 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-07-06 10:50 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

The last time the Epstein files were to be disclosed by Pam Bondi but weren't, CIA released an unclassified UFO report from the USSR. The distraction worked; Joe Rogaine was talking about the 'nothing-burger' ad nauseum. Now CIA released a small batch of JFK assassination records, one showing that CIA was covertly monitoring Lee Harvey Oswald before JFK's assassination (something they denied for decades). CIA officer George Joannides used the alias 'Howard Mark Gebler' to monitor Lee Harvey Oswald and pro-Castro groups: www.cia.gov

We'll see how effective this latest distraction from CIA will be to make us forget about Jeffrey Epstein.

Endnote: I'm sure Ghislaine Maxwell (USMS # 02879-509) knows more than she has admitted to. She is in Tallahassee FCI and will be released 17 July 2037.

#3 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-07-06 11:09 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Bull ------- ----.

#4 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-07-07 12:42 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

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#5 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-07-07 12:51 AM | Reply

Schrdinger's Epstein client list. It's simultaneously on Pam Bondi's desk and also non-existent.

#6 | Posted by lee_the_agent at 2025-07-07 08:20 AM | Reply | Funny: 3 | Newsworthy 1

I've stopped caring about this topic because I suspect it's largely made up bulls(*& that was used to rile up the rubes. It was all about insinuation and suggestion, not any real knowledge or reality of a list or known information.

Even if a list as released at this point, I probably wouldn't put much trust in it since any name could be put on it for whatever reasons the people releasing it want or, conversely, names removed or omitted at will.

#7 | Posted by jpw at 2025-07-07 09:59 AM | Reply | Funny: 1

The Epstein client list mysteriously vanished as soon as they found Trump's name on it.

#8 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-07-07 10:30 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 4

Must have fallen off of Blondi's desk and into the trash. Those things happen. Oh well. And Epstein is still dead. Case closed...

#9 | Posted by catdog at 2025-07-07 11:59 AM | Reply

Top MAGA voices stunned by Trump administration debunking Epstein theories
www.axios.com

#10 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-07-07 12:00 PM | Reply

Some Republicans and conspiracy theorists wanted to stick it to Bill Clinton with the Epstein files, but Pam Bondi realized it will also expose sexual maniac Dummkopf Trumpf, so now she attempts this sudden and clumsy legerdemain.

Links:

sun9-35.userapi.com

www.theguardian.com

#11 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-07-07 12:29 PM | Reply

There was a client list; and Epstein was murdered by Trump.

#12 | Posted by Zed at 2025-07-07 12:29 PM | Reply

Of course Bondi had been implying that she has the goods. All she has is egg on her face.

#13 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-07-07 12:29 PM | Reply

#13 | Posted by BellRinger

"Implying" This is why you are a joke. She literally said "it is on my desk right now" in an interview on the news. You saw her face, her lips moving, her voice, yet somehow she just implied that she had it. It is not egg on her face, it is the same dirty orange smear you wear here everyday from kissing Trumps ---.

#14 | Posted by justagirl_idaho at 2025-07-07 12:42 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 8

This is why you are a joke.

There's a plethora of reasons.

#15 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-07-07 12:48 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 4

She literally said "it is on my desk right now"

#14 | POSTED BY JUSTAGIRL_IDAHO

1) There is a List

2) Trump's name was obviously on it.

3) Trump had motive and opportunity to have Epstein killed.

#16 | Posted by Zed at 2025-07-07 01:01 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

#14 | Posted by justagirl_idaho at 2025-07-07 12:42 PM | Reply | Flag:

FFS the Biden Admin had 4 years to do something with it and they just sat on their hands.

#17 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-07-07 01:12 PM | Reply

FFS the Biden Admin had 4 years to do something with it and they just sat on their hands.

#17 | POSTED BY LFTHNDTHRDS

FFS were you cowering in a cave for those 4 years?

#18 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-07-07 01:15 PM | Reply

@#17 ... the Biden Admin had 4 years to do something with it ...

The Biden admin did not "disappear" the list, though, as AG Bondi has said that it was on her desk.

And, if Pres Trump's name were on the list, wouldn't the Biden admin have published it, according to the "lawfare" allegations your current alias so often says about that admin?


#19 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-07-07 01:27 PM | Reply

FFS the Biden Admin had 4 years to do something with it and they just sat on their hands.

#17 | Posted by lfthndthrds

Duhhhhh BiDenZ!!!

#20 | Posted by jpw at 2025-07-07 01:30 PM | Reply

Duhhhhh BiDenZ!!!

#20 | Posted by jpw at 2025-07-07 01:30 PM | Reply | Flag:

LMAO @ this moron. Fkking raetard wants someone he didn't/wouldn't vote for to do something the guy he DID vote for wouldn't do....

#21 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-07-07 01:37 PM | Reply

Tim Hannan
@TimHannan

Follow
Donald Trump is going to have to bomb another country to get this latest Epstein ---- out of the news cycle.
8:40 AM Jul 7, 2025

#22 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-07-07 02:02 PM | Reply

LMAO @ this moron. Fkking raetard wants someone he didn't/wouldn't vote for to do something the guy he DID vote for wouldn't do....

#21 | Posted by lfthndthrds

Look at my post above you stupid pile of s(*&.

Now tell me again what your stupid a*& thinks I want...

F*&^ing idiot.

#23 | Posted by jpw at 2025-07-07 03:17 PM | Reply

MAGA Stunned by Officials Debunking Epstein Theories

www.axios.com

Lol

#26 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-07-07 03:55 PM | Reply

It's a comedy, not a tragedy.
#27 | POSTED BY FREEWILLY

It's a comedy AND a tragedy.

#28 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-07-07 04:02 PM | Reply

" 14 | POSTED BY JUSTAGIRL_IDAHO AT 2025-07-07 12:42 PM | FLAG: | "

JFC. Calm the eff down. I don't recall exactly what she said and went off memory, which is imperfect.

You people lose your minds every time you see: posted by Bellringer

#31 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-07-07 04:20 PM | Reply

This is what I found regarding Bondi and a client list:

Asked if the Department of Justice would be releasing a list of Epstein's clients, Bondi said on Friday, February 21: "It's sitting on my desk right now to review. That's been a directive by President Trump."

www.newsweek.com

#32 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-07-07 04:29 PM | Reply

There's flight logs.

#33 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-07-07 04:37 PM | Reply

You people lose your minds every time you see: posted by Bellringer

#31 | POSTED BY BELLRINGER

Why is that do you suppose?

#34 | Posted by Zed at 2025-07-07 04:42 PM | Reply

Cross-examination, anything further of this witness?

Yes, Your Honor, thank you.

Just one more question, Ms. Bondi. Back in February, you said you had a long list of Mr. Epstein's clients. Yet today you say there is no such thing. My question to you, ma'am, is, were you lying then or are you lying now?

(Dramatic music)

#35 | Posted by cbob at 2025-07-07 04:42 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

POSTED BY BELLRINGER

Let me give you a hint:

You do things like run away when asked to defend Trump's cuts to the National Weather Service.

You won't even say that you can't defend them. You just go away.

#36 | Posted by Zed at 2025-07-07 04:43 PM | Reply

You people lose your minds every time you see: posted by Bellringer
#31 | POSTED BY BULLBRINGER

When JustAGirl (hi there!) takes the time to log in to tell you to shut up, perhaps the issue isn't, "you people" and in fact, you.

Take a moment and gain some perspective.

#37 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-07-07 04:44 PM | Reply

" You do things like run away when asked to defend Trump's cuts to the National Weather Service"

Those cuts occur in October and are unrelated to this flash flood because they haven't taken place yet.

#38 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-07-07 04:56 PM | Reply

Patricide Jeff lies again.

Hundreds of weather forecasters fired in latest wave of DOGE cuts

www.click2houston.com

#39 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-07-07 05:01 PM | Reply

#39: Mexicans? Coming across the border to help with the Texas floods? Were any of these invaders shot at the Special Military Zone?

#40 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-07-07 05:04 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

You people lose your minds every time you see: posted by Bellringer

#31 | Posted by BellRinger

First of all, you love it. It's the only reason you come here.

Second, you always seem taken aback when your ignorance or stupidity is called out and treated as such. It would be funnier if you weren't so confident and loud about it.

#41 | Posted by jpw at 2025-07-07 05:15 PM | Reply

Those cuts occur in October and are unrelated to this flash flood because they haven't taken place yet.

#38 | Posted by BellRinger

Why don't you try taking Trump's balls out of your mouth long enough to actually look into something before speaking?

Well over 1,000 NWS employees were canned immediately following Trump's inauguration.

apnews.com

#42 | Posted by jpw at 2025-07-07 05:18 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

And once again, JEFF runs away when proven wrong.

#43 | Posted by rstybeach11 at 2025-07-07 05:53 PM | Reply

Those cuts occur in October and are unrelated to this flash flood because they haven't taken place yet.

#38 | POSTED BY BELLRINGER

The ATTACKS on the NWS and the gutting of it's personal and expertise started happening almost immediately.

What you've done is regurgitate what MAGA has settled on for it's defense.

It works only on very ignorant people.

#44 | Posted by Zed at 2025-07-07 05:56 PM | Reply

Curious that no one wanted to put their signature on the FBI Memo making this announcement. ( www.justice.gov )


Stated differently, the FBI memo is unsigned.

No one seems to want to take responsibility for publishing it.

Why?


#45 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-07-07 06:19 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 3

@#31 ... You people lose your minds every time you see: posted by Bellringer ...

Pass coffee through my nose? Yes.

Lose my mind? Not a chance.

Your current alias has, in the past, stated (I paraphrase) it likes the attention it gets.


#46 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-07-07 06:23 PM | Reply

Lose my mind? Not a chance.
~ Gaslighter

true, this alias can't lose its mind twice.

No one seems to want to take responsibility for publishing it.

Its unverified this has been released to the public.
You know how I know you aren't the techie you claim to be, just look at the URL, then find one that is actually released.

The ATTACKS on the NWS and the gutting of it's personal and expertise started happening almost immediately.
~ Zedinsky

So what ... it didn't have any affect on the quality of forecast or the warnings.

Tom Fahy, the legislative director for the National Weather Service Employees Organization, a union that represents government employees, said the San Antonio weather forecasting office did not have two of its top positions filled " a permanent science officer (a role that conducts training and is in charge of implementing new technology) or a warning coordination meteorologist (who coordinates with the media and is the public face of the office), though there are employees acting in those leadership roles. Overall, Fahy said, the offices had enough meteorologists to respond to the event.

"The WFOs [weather forecasting offices] had adequate staffing and resources as they issued timely forecasts and warnings leading up to the storm," Fahy said Saturday, but he added that he was concerned about the unfilled senior positions and vacuums of leadership.

www.nbcnews.com

#47 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-07-07 07:10 PM | Reply

@#47 ... Its unverified this has been released to the public. ...

In my comment your current alias responded to there is a link to a PDF of the memo on the Justice Dept website.


#49 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-07-07 07:27 PM | Reply

The weather service for that county increased staff for the weather event and the first of multiple flash flood warnings (each following warning was more severe) was given 3 hours before the water began to rise. . As the water settles and investigations ensue to see if certain actions or protocols weren't taken that should have, then yeah let's call that out if the evidence shows that to be the case.

Preliminary assessment shows more than adequate staffing and first flash flood warning was well in advance of the water rising.

" Why don't you try taking Trump's balls out of your mouth long enough to actually look into something before speaking?

Well over 1,000 NWS employees were canned immediately following Trump's inauguration.
apnews.com

#42 | POSTED BY JPW AT 2025-07-07 05:18 PM | REPLY "

I DID look into it and right now the facts don't show any evidence that weather service was hampered for this event. You currently have nothing to show otherwise. Of course, that doesn't keep you from running with a narrative anyway.

#50 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-07-07 07:31 PM | Reply

"I DID look into it and right now the facts don't show any evidence that weather service was hampered for this event."

So, no job cuts after all?

#51 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-07-07 07:32 PM | Reply

Deaths caused by the-------------'s staffing cuts were predicted.

Our worst nightmare is that weather forecast offices will be so understaffed that there will be needless loss of life.

www.theinvadingsea.com

#52 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-07-07 07:42 PM | Reply

Interesting.

Why the deflection from this thread's topic?

#53 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-07-07 07:47 PM | Reply

I DID look into it and right now the facts don't show any evidence that weather service was hampered for this event.

#50 | POSTED BY BELLRINGER

You didn't really look at all.

Come on. The predicted consequences of Trump's behavior came true and people died.

This only surprises you.

#54 | Posted by Zed at 2025-07-07 07:55 PM | Reply

Hey, Zed, please put this weather stuff on the proper thread.

#55 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-07-07 07:57 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

0 | POSTED BY BELLRINGER

Donald is going to kill more people.

It will be a repeat of his first term.

Sociopaths don't value lives.

At all.

#56 | Posted by Zed at 2025-07-07 07:57 PM | Reply

Any evidence that existed was destroyed under Biden when the case was handled by the NYC FBI office - or, is being used now to blackmail the people on the list. For me, I believe Epstein was Mossad, which also explains how Israel has so much control over our country. Part of this being closed could simply be to shield Israel and avoid disruptions to the economy and government. But, I say actually release all the files and those that did wrongs need to be punished - and I 100% believe there is client list.

#57 | Posted by ScottS at 2025-07-07 08:12 PM | Reply

Bondi had the client list but ran it through a shredder after the brain dead-------------'s name kept appearing.

#58 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-07-07 08:14 PM | Reply

" Bondi had the client list but ran it through a shredder after the brain dead-------------'s name kept appearing.

#58 | POSTED BY REINHEITSGEBOT AT 2025-07-07 08:14 PM | FLAG: "

That was the first thought that crossed my mind. But then I backed up and thought about how hard Democrats tried to throw Trump in jail and have him removed from the ballot. If a list does (did?) exist and Trump's name was on it, no way that doesn't get leaked to the press while Biden was in office.

#59 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-07-07 08:21 PM | Reply

"If a list does (did?) exist and Trump's name was on it, no way that doesn't get leaked to the press while Biden was in office.
#59 | Posted by BellRinger"

BINGO!

The only logical conclusion is that 'too big of names' were on it (not Trump) and or the FBI shredded it under Biden.

On the 'too big of names' - the justification I can see is it if contained US military and or politicians that were blackmailed into committed treason against the US. That would move it outside simple embarrassment to calls for public execution. I could see Rubio on that list - he is the exact type of person that they would target and his 100% support for Israel may be the result.

#60 | Posted by ScottS at 2025-07-07 08:36 PM | Reply

@#59 ... If a list does (did?) exist

Why did AG Bondi say she had the list?

Bondi says Epstein client list sitting on my desk' for review (Febrile 2025)
thehill.com

... The alleged "client list" of disgraced financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein is on Attorney General Pam Bondi's desk, she said in an interview Friday, making the elusive document one step closer to potential public release. ...

"It's sitting on my desk right now to review," Bondi told Fox News. "That's been a directive by President Trump. I'm reviewing that." ...



#61 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-07-07 08:46 PM | Reply

@#61 ... Febrile 2025 ...

Wow, spell check gone awry ...

Should be ...

February 2025

Apologies for that.

#62 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-07-07 08:49 PM | Reply

Translation: Trump is a regular on Epstein's client list and we are covering it up.

#63 | Posted by a_monson at 2025-07-07 08:58 PM | Reply

" Why did AG Bondi say she had the list?"

Good question. She has certainly made herself look bad by doing so.

#64 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-07-07 09:14 PM | Reply

"Good question. She has certainly made herself look bad by doing so.
#64 | Posted by BellRinger"

Either she is a liar or made the assumption that it was included in the files the FBI were hiding in NYC and was wrong.

#65 | Posted by ScottS at 2025-07-07 09:32 PM | Reply

#65 Either way she comes out of this looking bad.

#66 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-07-07 09:39 PM | Reply

@#64 ... She has certainly made herself look bad by doing so. ...

She did not just make herself look bad, as your current alias seems to assert.

She, the AG, has shown herself to apparently be a liar.

So, the question becomes, why did she apparently deliberately mislead?


#67 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-07-07 09:51 PM | Reply

" So, the question becomes, why did she apparently deliberately mislead?"

I have no idea. It worked out badly for her.

#68 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-07-07 09:59 PM | Reply

And you stupid fucking cunt thinks Vince Foster was murdered. You're a fucking joke, little boy

#69 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-07-07 10:18 PM | Reply

@#68 ... It worked out badly for her. ...

Well, yeah. But why?


From #45 ...

... Curious that no one wanted to put their signature on the FBI Memo making this announcement. ( www.justice.gov )

Stated differently, the FBI memo is unsigned.

No one seems to want to take responsibility for publishing it.

Why? ...



Why did it, as your current alias has said, work out badly for her?

Maybe because the AG flat-out lied?

I wish I knew.


#70 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-07-07 10:20 PM | Reply

Jeff is a pathetic loser and a fucking coward.

#71 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-07-07 10:22 PM | Reply

"#65 Either way she comes out of this looking bad.
#66 | Posted by BellRinger"

Yep - she needs to be fired and they need to appoint Matt Gaetz at the next Senate recess to win back the trust of MAGA.

#72 | Posted by ScottS at 2025-07-07 10:25 PM | Reply

@#72 ... she needs to be fired ...

Why, because she may have told the truth back in February?



#73 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-07-07 10:51 PM | Reply

Matt Gaetz? Fuck off Jeff.

#74 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-07-07 10:52 PM | Reply

"Why, because she may have told the truth back in February?
#73 | Posted by LampLighter"

Because she lost the public trust - she lied then (or assumed wrong - incompetence) or she is lying now. There is no explanation under which she deserves to keep her job.

#75 | Posted by ScottS at 2025-07-07 11:06 PM | Reply

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