'Ticking time bomb': Trump called on to address Epstein investigation concerns
U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi speaks to the media as U.S. President Donald Trump listens, after the U.S. Supreme Court dealt a blow to the power of federal judges by restricting their ability to grant broad legal relief in cases as the justices acted in a legal fight over President Donald Trump's bid to limit birthright citizenship, in the Press Briefing Room at the White House in Washington D.C., June 27, 2025. REUTERS/Ken Cedeno
Fox News hosts Charles Hurt and Rachel Campos-Duffy said Sunday President Donald Trump and his team should publicly address lingering questions about the Epstein investigation, arguing that only a full explanation — like detailing witnesses and interviews — can calm the unrest stirred by the president’s own Truth Social post.
In a post on his Truth Social platform Saturday evening, Trump wrote: “What’s going on with my ‘boys’ and, in some cases, ‘gals?’ They’re all going after Attorney General Pam Bondi, who is doing a FANTASTIC JOB! We’re on one Team, MAGA, and I don’t like what’s happening. We have a PERFECT Administration, THE TALK OF THE WORLD, and ‘selfish people’ are trying to hurt it, all over a guy who never dies, Jeffrey Epstein.”
Trump went on to say that his critics — from former President Barack Obama, “Crooked Hillary,” Comey, Brennan, and the Biden team — were behind the documents related to convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
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“They created the Epstein Files, just like they created the FAKE Hillary Clinton/Christopher Steele Dossier that they used on me, and now my so‑called ‘friends’ are playing right into their hands," Trump added.
He continued: “Why didn’t these Radical Left Lunatics release the Epstein Files? If there was ANYTHING in there that could have hurt the MAGA Movement, why didn’t they use it? They haven’t even given up on the John F. Kennedy or Martin Luther King, Jr. Files.”
Reacting to Trump’s comments, Hurt argued during Fox News's "Fox & Friends" that Trump and his team must do more to reassure the public.
“If there’s anybody who could walk in and say, ‘OK, we’ve resolved all of the questions and there is nothing here,’ it would be President Trump and his crew,” Hurt said, adding, “The problem is, you can’t really do it without giving some explanation. And there has to be some explanation. And I think that’s why you have a lot of people still pretty with a lot a very valid questions.”
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Campos-Duffy echoed this sentiment, saying: “You can defuse this ticking time bomb if you simply get out there. You can’t tell me that a thousand people were hurt and that there are no people out there that we can arrest."
She added: "You can tell me that, ‘Sorry. We don’t have a list.’ Fine, don’t have a list. Tell me who the perpetrators were. Let’s depose every single person who might have had a chance to get on that list, and might have been out there at that island and let’s talk to them. Let’s find out what happened.”
A wave of disillusionment swept through the Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement after the Department of Justice and FBI recently declared there was no Epstein “client list” and reaffirmed that Epstein’s death was a suicide.
Right‑wing figures such as Laura Loomer, Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FLa), and Robby Starbuck publicly criticized Bondi for allegedly misleading the base, with several calling for her resignation over what they view as a betrayal.
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