The Trump administration had hoped that that statement would be the final word on the saga, with Trump chiding a reporter who asked Bondi about the Epstein case at a Cabinet meeting on Tuesday.

Attorney Spencer Kuvin, who represents one of Epstein’s victims, shared: "We certainly knew that Mr. Trump was a close friend of Mr. Epstein during those exact years that Mr. Epstein was molesting these young girls. "These are two gentlemen that definitely ran in the same circles."

The Justice Department and FBI have officially stated that no “client list” of powerful men connected to Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking exists, publicly contradicting earlier claims by Attorney General Pam Bondi and walking back election campaign promises made by Donald Trump that he would release such information.

An irate attorney general is said to have confronted the deputy director of the F.B.I. at a tense White House meeting earlier in the week.

Right-wing figures Charlie Kirk and Megyn Kelly on Friday alluded to the reported feud between FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino and Attorney General Pam Bondi over the Department of Justice ‘s botched handling of the Epstein files.

Earlier this week, the Department of Justice and Federal Bureau of Investigation announced that sexual predator and financier Jeffrey Epstein killed himself while incarcerated in New York in 2019.

The White House is facing a barrage of criticism after sharing an edited image of President Donald Trump as Superman on social media. In a post on X and Instagram late Thursday, the official account took inspiration from one of the DC tentpole’s most famous catchphrases: “THE SYMBOL OF HOPE. TRUTH. JUSTICE. THE AMERICAN WAY. SUPERMAN TRUMP.”

As with many of Trump's social media posts recently even on his own TruthSocial site, commenters have refused to let go of the subject of the Jeffrey Epstein client list, with many of the users on Thursday's post asking why it won't be released.