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 Justice Department acknowledged Monday that Jeffrey Epstein did not maintain a “client list,” and no more files related to the wealthy financier’s sex trafficking investigation would be made public.

A small but influential cohort of the president’s far-right political coalition spared him their ire but turned with a vengeance on the attorney general and the top officials at the F.B.I.