President Donald Trump is defending Attorney General Pam Bondi as she faces mounting criticism from far-right influencers and conservative internet personalities over the Justice Department’s abrupt refusal to release additional documents from the Jeffrey Epstein sex-trafficking investigation.

Jeffrey Epstein did not maintain a "client list," the U.S. Justice Department said Monday, announcing that no more files related to the wealthy financier's sex trafficking investigation would be made public,

The President, visibly frustrated, dismissed the inquiry as irrelevant and a distraction, calling Epstein “ancient news” and implying that continued media focus on the disgraced financier was politically motivated. Trump has previously acknowledged knowing Epstein socially but denies any deeper association or involvement in Epstein's crimes.