(Adnkronos) – Donald Trump is increasingly angry about the way his administration is handling the storm over the Epstein files case, which is monopolizing the attention of the press and overshadowing the results the president is achieving on the domestic and international fronts. The Washington Post writes this, citing two sources who explain how the tycoon’s exasperation is caused by weeks of errors and the lack of a clear strategy by his team, with Attorney General Pam Bondi at the center of the storm.
She and other senior administration officials are accused of having underestimated the public reaction, particularly Trump’s Maga base, to the decision not to release the documents relating to the investigation into the pedophile financier who died in 2019 in a New York prison, where he had been imprisoned on charges of running a sex trafficking ring of minors.
A network in which a long list of rich and powerful friends participated, as evidenced by a list that Bondi herself referred to in February and then denied its existence in the memo with which, at the beginning of the month, she announced that there would be no publication of the documents, repeatedly promised by Trump to the conspiracy part of his electoral base, and it was confirmed that Epstein’s death in his cell was a suicide.
The idea, or the hope, was that the country would quickly forget the story, the sources further report. Instead, this has not been the case, on the contrary, every day there is a new revelation about the well-known friendship between Trump and Epstein, before there was a break between the two in 2004. Especially after the Wall Street Journal revealed last week that in May Bondi, during a meeting in the Oval Office, told Trump that his name appears several times in the famous files.
Despite the anger, Trump is not currently inclined to fire anyone: “he doesn’t want to increase the proportions of the case with dismissals,” sources close to him say.