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.

During his remarks, Trump asked Bondi if she felt like answering the reporter's question. "I don't mind answering," the attorney general replied. When the president finished speaking, Bondi addressed the reporter and cited an interview she did with Fox News in February, which she said had "been getting a lot of attention."

Mark Epstein, brother of the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, has rubbished the Donald Trump administration’s verdict that the late billionaire pedophile took his own life in a New York City jail cell.