President Trump “would not recommend” that Attorney General Palm Bandy appointed a special prosecutor to handle the Jeffrey Epstein’s investigation, the White House press secretary Karolin Lewit said on Thursday.
Levitt’s comment came after the President on Wednesday Said The controversy over the information of his administration from the investigation of late convicted sexual criminal Epstein is a “deception” and “bulls ***,”, and the Republican has been called for more transparency as “weak”. Several President’s supporters, including house speaker Mike Johnson, have called the Department of Justice to release all their records related to Epstein, who died in 2019 while waiting for a test for child sex trafficking.
On Thursday, a reporter asked Levit whether the President asked Bondi to appoint a special prosecutor in the Epstein case. some of the President’s colleague Called for such a step.
“The President would not recommend a special prosecutor in the Epstein case,” said Lewit. “This is how he feels. And for his discussion with the Attorney General, I am not sure.”
After the Department of Justice and FBI, Bondi has been criticized in the base of Mr. Trump. It was stated in a memorandum earlier this month There was no evidence that Epstein placed a “customer list”, and there was no evidence that Epstein had blackmailed the major figures. Memo also said that Epstein died of suicide while in 2019 in federal custody.
With some right -wing affects, some right -wing affected people have called for Bandy’s resignation to handle the records of the case. In the past, Bondi was near Promised to release documents On the government’s Epstein investigation.
This week, the President called Ruchi in Epstein case “boring”, but also said that Bondi should release “whatever he thinks is reliable”.
Mr. Trump claimed that the conspiracies about the case were constructed by Democrats.
Mr. Trump said at the Oval Office on Wednesday, “All this is a big deception, it is done by Democrat, and some stupid Republicans and foolish Republican falls in the net.”