Maggie Haberman Reports Trump Administration Is ‘Discussing’ Release of More Epstein Files – But Adds a Caveat

CNN’s Maggie Haberman said there are currently discussions being had in the Trump administration as to whether to release more files about the Jeffrey Epstein case.

President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice stepped in it with the MAGA base last week when it concluded in a memo that the deceased child sex trafficker did not have the long-rumored client list he was believed to have had. The DOJ also restated its finding that Epstein committed suicide in a Manhattan jail cell in 2019.

Not surprisingly, Attorney General Pam Bondi has come under fire from many Trump supporters, who believed the administration would reveal the names of powerful Epstein associates who had engaged in criminal behavior. Bondi herself stoked these beliefs. In February, she told Fox News that Epstein’s client list was “sitting on my desk right now.”

Trump has brushed aside questions about Epstein, and even slammed his own supporters for wanting a full documents dump.

“I think, really, only pretty bad people, including fake news, wanna keep something like that going,” the president told reporters on Tuesday.

Hours later on AC360 on CNN, Anderson Cooper asked Haberman about the pickle the Trump administration has put itself in.

“President Trump himself said that Bondi should release, quote, ‘whatever she thinks is credible,'” the host noted. “Are there any indications the Justice Department is actually going to release more information?”

Haberman replied that more public disclosures may be in the offing, but she added that such a revelation is unlikely to placate a MAGA base that has been primed to expect bombshells:

There is a lot of pressure on the Justice Department to try to do something more. There’s been, as I’m sure you’re aware, discussion of a special counsel, which is very complicated for a lot of reasons, and a bunch of people inside the administration do not want that.

But, I think they are probably– what they’re discussing right now – again, I don’t wanna predict because this whole thing has been very messy – there is a discussion about releasing some sort of additional material. We will see what that looks like.

The problem they’ve created for themselves, Anderson, is whatever partial information they release, it will never be seen as enough. It will never be believed. And I think this has been a real lesson to top officials in this government that if you say something over and over again, your own followers are not necessarily going to stick with you if you say something different later.

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