Pam Bondi blindsided White House by releasing Trump's name in Epstein files binders: NYT

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Raw Story

June 10, 2026 9:45AM ET


According to reporting in the upcoming book, “Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump,” by New York Times reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan, former Attorney General Pam Bondi reportedly infuriated the president’s inner circle during a meeting with high-profile conservative influencers about the Jeffrey Epstein files.

On February 27, the White House Communications Office had scheduled a lineup of cabinet officials to brief popular MAGA influencers in the Roosevelt Room. Vice President JD Vance led the session, followed by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, walking the influencers through the administration's agenda. In attendance was a "who's who of online Trump world": Mike Cernovich, Liz Wheeler, Collin Rugg, and DC Draino.

According to Swan and Haberman, Trump himself brought them to the Oval Office and presented custom-designed challenge coins as tokens of appreciation. Before the day went sideways, one influencer remarked: "It was the best day of my life.". Then Bondi and her team reportedly waltzed into the Roosevelt Room carrying boxes. The attorney general had prepared binders as handouts; her aides would later claim the FBI had prepared them with revelatory details. One staffer reportedly boasted: "Watch this. This is cool. This is going to be epic."

Instead, the binders led to panic in the room. As Bondi's staff distributed the binders, "blood pressure in the room" skyrocketed among other officials because no one in the White House had vetted the material in the binders and the attorney general was distributing materials she was calling "the Epstein files" without approval. According to the report, one official opened a binder and frantically flipped through pages looking for Trump's name and, "A few pages in, right in the middle of the page, there it was."

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[ChicagoTeamster]

1. Ka$h Patel is so efficient and effective as FBI director. Didn't he say he reviewed them too? Then later on,

after that event, they said there were no Epstein files. No client lists. So why did they do the binder stunt and where did they get the information for the binder stunt?

[Miguelito Loveless]

2. So nice to see

Maggie Haberman taking time off from her journalism duties to write a book full of stuff she should have told us about when it happened.

[BaronChocula]

3. If this was a movie

It would be called "Dumbfellas" based on the book "Unwise Guys."

Great to see them doing each other in.