Musk slams Trump defense of Bondi on Epstein controversy: ‘Just release the files as promised’
Tech billionaire Elon Musk blasted President Trump on Saturday over his defense of Attorney General Pam Bondi and her handling of the case related to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.
Musk, in a post on the social platform X late Saturday, responded to another X user, who screenshotted Trump’s Truth Social statement earlier that day and wrote, “This is in the running for worst post ever made.”
“Seriously,” Musk said, agreeing with that sentiment about Trump’s post. “He said ‘Epstein’ half a dozen times while telling everyone to stop talking about Epstein.”
“Just release the files as promised,” Musk added.
Musk, a few minutes later, responded to a separate post calling the Epstein case Trump’s “Achilles’ heel,” rebuking the president for pledging to release the files on the campaign trail and now dismissing the significance of the case.
“This is a very big deal,” Musk responded. “What the hell kind of system are we living in if thousands of kids were abused, the government has videos of the abusers and yet none of the abusers are even facing charges!?”
Earlier on Saturday, Trump took to Truth Social to offer a sweeping defense of his attorney general, who has come under scrutiny since the Justice Department released a memo on Monday that concluded Epstein did not keep a so-called “client list” of high-profile individuals to blackmail them.
The memo also concluded there was no evidence to suggest foul play in Epstein’s 2019 death, which had previously been determined to be a suicide.
But segments of Trump’s base of supporters have grown furious at Bondi, who had earlier indicated she had the so-called client list waiting on her desk.
Trump has stood by Bondi and reiterated his support of his attorney general on Saturday in a lengthy post, in which he wrote, “LET PAM BONDI DO HER JOB — SHE’S GREAT!”
“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 said on Truth Social.
The president suggested some of his political opponents “created” the Epstein files and that the outrage from some in the MAGA movement over the documents related to the case is exactly what Trump’s longtime critics are looking for.
“For years, it’s Epstein, over and over again. Why are we giving publicity to Files written by Obama, Crooked Hillary, Comey, Brennan, and the Losers and Criminals of the Biden Administration, who conned the World with the Russia, Russia, Russia Hoax, 51 ‘Intelligence’ Agents, THE LAPTOP FROM HELL,’ and more? 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 wrote in the post, referring to FBI’s probe into the alleged ties between Russia and Trump’s 2016 campaign.
“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,” Trump said on Saturday.