“Umm, your memo and release yesterday on Jeffrey Epstein left some lingering mysteries. One of the biggest ones is whether he ever worked for an American or foreign intelligence agency,” said the reporter.

“The former Labor Secretary who was Miami U.S. Attorney Alex Acosta, he allegedly said that he did work for an intelligence agency,” he continued. “So can you resolve whether or not he did and also can you say why there’s a minute missing from the jailhouse tape?”

“Yeah sure—” began Attorney General Pam Bondi, the woman who previously claimed that the Epstein client list was sitting on her desk for review. Over the weekend, a memo from Justice Department leaked which claimed that there was no client list, no evidence that Epstein blackmailed powerful people, and no reason to believe that he was murdered.

“Can I just interrupt for one second?” interjected Trump. “Are you still talking about Jeffrey Epstein? This guy’s been talked about for years. You’re asking— We have Texas. We have this. We have all of the things— And are people still talking about this guy? This creep?”

Trump called Epstein a “terrific guy” in 2002 and said that he’d “known Jeff for 15 years.”

“That is unbelievable. Do you want to waste the time on— Do you feel like answering?” a flustered Trump asked Bondi.

“I don’t mind answering,” said Bondi.

“I mean I can’t believe you’re asking a question on Epstein at a time like this where we’re having some of the greatest success and also tragedy with what happened in Texas,” said Trump, who is directly responsible for the flash flooding deaths because he cut funding for the National Weather Service.

“It just seems, uh, like a desecration but you go ahead,” Trump added.

To put it mildly, this was not a calm and collected response from Trump. If Epstein really had no connections to intelligence and no blackmail material on him, it would have been a simple matter for the president to answer the reporter’s questions. Instead, he went on the attack and struggled to get his words out.

Bondi attempted to explain the missing minute in the 11 hours of footage released by the Justice Department which purportedly shows the outside of the cell where Epstein allegedly killed himself. The time stamp appears to skip from 11:58 PM to midnight, which some observers have suggested could have been enough time for a killer to enter and leave the cell unnoticed.

“The video was not conclusive, but the evidence prior to it was showing he committed suicide,” said Bondi.

“And what was on that, there was a minute that was off the counter and what we learned from the Bureau of Prisons is every year, uh every night, they redo that video,” she went on. “It’s old from like 1999. So, every night the video is reset and every night should have the same minute missing.”

“So we’re looking for that video to release that as well, showing that a minute is missing every night. And that’s it on Epstein,” she added.

As always when discussing Trump and Epstein, it must be noted that the president’s former ally Elon Musk alleged that Trump “is in the Epstein files” and claimed that it’s “the real reason they have not been made public.”

We can’t allow this story to disappear from the news. Something stinks to the high heavens here, and the American people deserve to know the truth.