The acknowledgment represents a public walk-back of a theory that the Trump administration had helped promote, with Bondi suggesting that such a document was “sitting on my desk” for review.

Former Fox News host Bill O’Reilly said he discussed the Jeffrey Epstein case in March with President Trump, who told him that there are “a lot of names associated” with the disgraced financier for innocuous reasons.

A video clip of Bondi’s February Fox News interview resurfaced after Axios reported on Sunday that the Department of Justice and FBI found no evidence of Epstein’s “client list.” In the interview, Bondi had suggested she currently had the “client list” on her desk.

The Associated Press has spoken with lawyers and law enforcement officials in cases concerning Jeffrey Epstein who say they have not seen and do not know of a trove of recordings like what Attorney General Pam Bondi has described.

The U.S. Justice Department and White House have scrambled this week to explain a significant walkback from promises of potentially explosive information involving accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein and his alleged clientele.

Attorney general referenced a trove of videos of Epstein with underage people – the first mention of such videos

Conservative internet and media personalities are criticizing Attorney General Pam Bondi and the Trump administration after a recent government memo appeared to contradict statements Bondi made about the case of convicted sex offender and financier Jeffrey Epstein.

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,