Leavitt Grilled on Pam Bondi’s Original Epstein Client List Claims

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.

“She was saying the entirety of all of the paperwork in relation to Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes, that’s what the attorney general was referring to and I will let her speak for that,” Leavitt responded, going on to describe the FBI’s arrest numbers and falling murder rate as proof of the administration’s success.

Leavitt’s questioning from reporters came after the DOJ — in conjunction with the FBI — released a memo that stated there was no evidence Epstein was murdered, there was “no incriminating ‘client list,’” “no credible evidence” that Epstein “blackmailed prominent individuals,” and no “evidence that could predicate an investigation against uncharged third parties.” Axios first revealed the existence of the memo Sunday night.

Most of the claims rebutted in the document were ones spread by right-wing influencers online, including several who were invited to the White House by Bondi earlier this year and handed a binder emblazoned with “The Epstein Files: Phase 1.” The information contained in its pages, however, had largely been made public already, prompting cries from MAGA circles for federal authorities to release more information on the disgraced financier.

In response to the outcry, Bondi said in March that officials received a “truckload” of related documentation, documents she claimed were previously “sat on” by federal authorities.

“No one did anything with them,” she added.

But it remains unclear whether there ever was any new information to be released on Epstein and his alleged crimes.

“The attorney general and the FBI director pledged, at the president’s direction, to do an exhaustive review of all of the files related to Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes and his death, and they put out a memo in conclusion of that review,” Leavitt added Monday. “There was material they did not release, because, frankly, it was incredibly graphic and it contained child pornography, which is not something that’s appropriate for public consumption, but they committed to an exhaustive investigation. That’s what they did, and they provided the results of that. That’s transparency.”