(NewsNation) — Americans are still waiting for more Jeffrey Epstein files to be released as Attorney General Pam Bondi said her office has been given a “truckload of evidence,” according to the New York Post.
Previously, Bondi had given the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s New York field office until Feb. 28 to hand over any information about Epstein’s case. She had accused the office of not sharing “thousands of pages of documents” before the release of Epstein’s contact book and flight logs in February.
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“So, we got them all — hopefully all of them — by Friday at 8 a.m.,” Bondi told Fox News. “I have the FBI going through them.”
She also said that FBI Director Kash Patel will “get us a detailed report as to why” those documents have been withheld until now.
Pam Bondi: Americans will see ‘full Epstein files’
Bondi told Fox News that she was tricked into believing she had all the files related to Jeffrey Epstein.
“I kept saying, there has to be more. There has to be more,” Bondi told Fox News on Saturday. “I was assured that’s it.”
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She claims a whistleblower told her the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York is “sitting on thousands of pages of documents” that she hasn’t seen, according to The Hill.
Bondi promised that all Americans will see “the full Epstein files.”
She told Fox News, “We will get everything. We will have it in our possession. We will redact it, of course, to protect grand jury information and confidential witnesses, but American people have a right to know.”
Bondi said that anything related to national security would also be redacted. She also said any redactions would be explained to the American public, according to the New York Post.
Jeffrey Epstein files released in February
Before some files on the Epstein case were released in late February, Bondi had said in several interviews that Epstein’s actions were “pretty sick.”
The files that were released included Epstein’s flight logs, but nothing groundbreaking was revealed. Most of the information in those files had already been known. The Department of Justice released those files to a small group of conservative influencers first, which brought backlash.
(From L) Political commentator Rogan O’Handley, aka DC Draino, TikToker Chaya Raichik, commentator Liz Wheeler and US conservative activist Scott Presler carry binders bearing the seal of the US Justice Department reading “The Epstein Files: Phase 1” as they walk out of the West Wing of the White House in Washington, DC, on February 27, 2025. The Trump administration has said it would release documents on late tycoon and convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein who was found dead in his prison cell in 2019. (Photo by Jim WATSON / AFP) (Photo by JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna from Florida is a chair of the House panel in charge of reviewing classified documents in high-profile cases for release. She posted on X to voice her concerns, saying, in part, “This is not what we or the American people asked for and a complete disappointment.”
Rep. Jared Moskowitz, also from Florida, said it had been a bad day for the White House.
“It was not a good day for the administration. … I have never seen the Left and the Right come together in a moment on the debacle of what the Epstein files contained,” he told CNN.
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Epstein was originally arrested on federal sex trafficking charges in July 2019. His girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell, is currently serving a 20-year prison sentence for helping Epstein traffic minors.
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Previously released files related to his case have included the names of many political and Hollywood figures, including:
Trump
Former President Bill Clinton
Prince Andrew
Stephen Hawking
Leonardo DiCaprio
Michael Jackson
Cate Blanchett
David Copperfield
George Lucas
It is important to note, however, that someone’s name appearing in Epstein’s files is not an indicator they participated in sex trafficking. The files included some names who only had brief contact with Epstein.
Epstein died of an apparent suicide in his federal jail cell in New York City in August 2019 while awaiting trial.
