Justice Department Told Trump in May That His Name Is Among Many in the Epstein Files

[moonshinegnomie]

Source: wall street jounal

When Justice Department officials reviewed what Attorney General Pam Bondi called a “truckload” of documents related to Jeffrey Epstein earlier this year, they discovered that Donald Trump’s name appeared multiple times, according to senior administration officials.
In May, Bondi and her deputy informed the president at a meeting in the White House that his name was in the Epstein files, the officials said. Many other high-profile figures were also named, Trump was told. Being mentioned in the records isn’t a sign of wrongdoing.


Read more: https://www.wsj.com/politics/justice-department-told-trump-name-in-epstein-files-727a8038

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well no shit hes in the files....the files that supposedly dont exist...

[cilla4progress]

1. drip drip

drip...

[Journeyman]

2. Being mentioned isn't a sign of wrongdoing; doing all you can to hide this fact certainly is, however . . .

[HeartsCanHope]

22. Exactly, Journeyman!

[BlueKota]

3. Rupert doesn't appear to be playing this time.🧨

[CentralMass]

7. I wonder whats gotten into the scumbag ?

[BlueKota]

13. This is just a guess on my part.

I think the real money people thought they could control DT's presidency, but he got intoxicated by the power, and now he's way off script. Now they're trying to find a way to rein him back in, or turn the same people they lured into supporting him, away from him now.

[CentralMass]

20. Thats is a sound theory. Vance met with Murdoch right before the WSJ dropped the Epstein letter.

[FarPoint]

29. Australians know Murdock well...

He is known as a " king maker". So, he can also take tRump down...which I tend to believe is his goal...Rupert is pisst-off about the global mess-up and his irrational tariffs stuff...Oligarchs can't stand tRump.... this is helpful overall....

[BlueKota]

30. Never thought I'd see the day I'd root for Murdoch,

but this is one battle I hope he wins!

[Frasier Balzov]

4. Was Trump ever interviewed by the FBI about Epstein?

Is there a 302 regarding any such interview?

[twodogsbarking]

5. Fake files.

[Bayard]

11. Blame Obama and Hillary Clinton

[Botany]

27. How can Trump's name be in files that don't exist?

Because Barack Obama put it in there as part of the deep state.

[johnnyfins]

6. There is no way that the DOJ are the sole custodian

Of these "files". Someone has copies(or direct knowledge of what they contain), or we wouldn't be hearing about any of this.

I'm thinking Elon, Ghislaine, Bill Barr, and maybe an unkown party or parties.

[CentralMass]

8. We can hope.

[NCDem47]

9. I mean...hello! The Biden Admin. was in there for four years.

Like nobody under Garland was looking at any of that or taking notes in anticpation of the day when Trump/Republicans would want to weaponize agsinst Dems and their allies?

[Irish_Dem]

23. Elon made it clear he knew what was in the Epstein files.

So Elon has access to the files.

It appears that as he was destroying the US govt, Elon was gathering useful data.

[johnnyfins]

24. He could have just known that Bondi told

TSF that he was in the files. She did this back in May accordimg to the WSJ.

[Irish_Dem]

25. Possible, but highly inappropriate and imprudent for her to disclose this to anyone else.

But perhaps Elon was at the meeting when she told Trump about it.

This woman is an idiot.

[OKIsItJustMe]

10. WSJ reports DOJ told Trump he is in Epstein files, 'enormously consequential'

[jgmiller]

12. I'm really starting to wonder if Murdoch and some of his buddies are done with Trump now that they got what they wanted

They got their big tax cut and they know Trump is a liability now to their continued profits so they have decided to stop covering for him and let nature take it's course.

[Strelnikov_]

16. I'm not

He threatens profit and dips his beak deep into everything. Reminds me of the last days of Big Paulie,

[LetMyPeopleVote]

14. Maddow Blog-Justice Department reportedly told Trump in May that his name is in the Epstein files

A new Wall Street Journal report said the president's name "appeared multiple times" in the Jeffrey Epstein files — and he was told that during a briefing.

The new @wsj.com report said Trump's name appeared "multiple times" in the Epstein files — and the president was told that in a recent briefing.

So why did he suggest otherwise last week? www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

— Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2025-07-23T20:26:36.624Z

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/doj-reportedly-told-trump-may-name-epstein-files-rcna220630

Nearly two months later, the tweet is gone, but the claim is relevant anew. The Wall Street Journal reported:

When Justice Department officials reviewed what Attorney General Pam Bondi called a ‘truckload’ of documents related to Jeffrey Epstein earlier this year, they discovered that Donald Trump’s name appeared multiple times, according to senior administration officials. In May, Bondi and her deputy informed the president at a meeting in the White House that his name was in the Epstein files, the officials said. Many other high-profile figures were also named, Trump was told.

.....What’s more, it was just last week when a reporter asked the president whether Attorney General Pam Bondi told him that his name appeared in the Epstein files. “No, no,” he responded.
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:h7qtoo7nxqxarrsijohjhbw4/post/3lunsaomjz22h

Link to tweet

Trump acknowledged at that point — I believe for the first time — that he’d received a personal briefing on this case, which was notable in its own right, but the exchange appears even more important now.

Indeed, if the president was briefed on the investigation and told that his name did appear in the files, it would raise new questions about why the Republican felt the need to lie to the public.

What’s more, three days after the president made those on-camera comments, NBC News also reported that Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin, relying on information from a protected FBI whistleblower disclosure, alleged that FBI personnel were instructed to “flag” any records that mentioned Trump as part of their handling of the Epstein files.

trump was caught in a lie and this story is only going to be fun to watch

[Hassler]

15. The Trump Epstein Files cover-up continues

[Evolve Dammit]

17. Kabuki theatre. And end result in next decade. Maybe.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

18. Of course they are

[Scott Alan Swaggerty]

19. Yep

[cstanleytech]

21. I thought I heard shredders from a few hundred miles away up in D.C. from down here.

[Irish_Dem]

26. A known rapist and criminal is named in documents about another known rapist and criminal.

But the first rapist is innocent. Sure.

[viva la]

28. Why isn't it obvious?

Everyone should have known all along. They were photographed together many times, partying.

Were there actually people who thought he wasn't in the files? I don't get why MAGA pursued this at all, given all the public evidence.

[doc03]

31. Be careful what we ask for, I suspect there may be some on our

side on that list.

[cadoman]

34. not that politics should come into play when prosecuting a child molestation ring...

...but I'm quite certain the proportion of repukes to Democrats in these files is at least 12 to 1. There's a reason Krasnov didn't release this earlier when he had the chance: it will destroy the GQP brand. Remember Dennis Hastert? Gym Jordan? Well, they weren't the only ones with a predilection for children.

All you need to know that we're on the right track is how Krasnov is squirming and misdirecting. If this were to his benefit he would have released it long ago!

[IronLionZion]

32. "His name is among many" but there is no list

[DrFunkenstein]

33. Imagine if MAGA was this worked up about women being sexually assaulted

Surely this is only becoming an issue because Trump and his toadies had been fluffing up the Epstein story for months during the campaign. I wonder if this would have been an issue for Trump if his flying monkeys hadn't worked up his base into a feeding frenzy. All of the allegations about rape, groping, and sexual assault that have surrounded Trump (and, say, a certain Supreme Court nominee) got pretty much zero traction in MAGA world.