U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi stated on Friday that the Jeffrey Epstein client list is “sitting on my desk right now” and that she is also reviewing the JFK and MLK files, following President Donald Trump’s earlier directives. “It’s sitting on my desk right now to review,” Bondi told ‘America Reports’ host John Roberts on Friday. “That’s been a directive by President Trump.”
Bondi also mentioned she is currently reviewing the JFK and MLK files, which the president signed an executive order to declassify at the beginning of his second term. “That’s all in the process of being reviewed, because that was done at the directive of the president from all of these agencies,” Bondi said. When asked if she had “seen anything,” Bondi responded, “Not yet.”
Trump’s return to the Oval Office brought the possibility of the public finally gaining access to Epstein’s long-awaited “black book,” amid ongoing investigations into the deceased financier and sex trafficker, Fox News noted. Epstein, a 66-year-old millionaire with a private island in the U.S. Virgin Islands and mansions across the country, died in federal custody in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.
Bondi herself advocated for the release of the Epstein list in 2024, telling Sean Hannity at the time, “It should have come out a long time ago.” Shortly after beginning his second term, Trump signed an executive order to declassify files related to the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, his brother Robert F. Kennedy, and civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. “Everything will be revealed,” Trump told reporters as he signed the order in the Oval Office.
Trump had previously pledged during his campaign to declassify the documents if he entered a second term, saying at the time, “When I return to the White House, I will declassify and unseal all JFK assassination-related documents. It’s been 60 years, time for the American people to know the TRUTH!”
Earlier this month, the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) and the attorney general reached their deadline to submit their proposed plan for the declassification of the JFK files, Fox News added. Shortly after, the FBI announced it had discovered thousands of records related to the JFK assassination. Axios initially reported that the agency had released 2,400 records connected to the November 22, 1963, assassination of Kennedy, which had not been included in the files reviewed and disclosed by the board.