"It's hard not to chuckle at the mess the Trump administration has made for itself" over Jeffrey Epstein, said Jonah Goldberg in the Los Angeles Times. For years, the president and his allies stoked conspiracy theories about the disgraced financier,

Attorney General Pam Bondi, one of the loudest voices calling for release of Jeffrey Epstein's criminal file, grapples with how much can be public.

David Schoen, a former lawyer for Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein, said Attorney General Pam Bondi and other officials “jumped the gun a bit” in overhyping the Epstein files. Schoen in an interview with BBC “Newsnight” Thursday said there is no Epstein “client list” that would highlight connections between the disgraced financier and wealthy individuals.