White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt was grilled on Monday over a Department of Justice memo that revealed investigators had not found a “client list” kept by convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
The claim that the Trump administration would release such a document was promoted by a number of now high-level officials, including Attorney General Pam Bondi, who told Fox News in February, in response to a question about a potential list, “It is sitting on my desk right now to review.”
Leavitt was asked about the apparent discrepancy by Fox News reporter Peter Doocy Monday, who read back Bondi’s original quote to her verbatim.