Attorney General Pam Bondi is facing calls to testify before Congress about Jeffrey Epstein after The Wall Street Journal reported that Bondi had told President Donald Trump in May that he was in the files, a claim the administration has dismissed as “fake news.” Trump earlier sued the newspaper and its owner, Rupert Murdoch, over a previous story alleging that the president had sent a birthday card to Epstein.
On Wednesday, the Journal reported that Bondi informed Trump that his name was among “many” other names in the Epstein files, which the Trump administration declined to release earlier this month. Trump has since called the files a “hoax” perpetrated by political rivals, and has called some his supporters “weaklings” for following the scandal.
In the wake of the latest revelation,