Trump Is Not Interested In Naming A Special Counsel For The Jeffrey Epstein Case, White House Says

President Donald Trump will not name a typical counsel to reappraisal nan Jeffrey Epstein case, nan White House said Thursday, shooting down a move that respective of his friends person advocated.

"The president would not urge a typical charismatic successful nan Epstein case. That's really he feels," White House property caput Karoline Leavitt said astatine a property briefing erstwhile asked astir calls for him to do so.

Some of Trump's astir salient supporters, including Steve Bannon, far-right activistic Laura Loomer and Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., had promoted nan thought of Trump naming a typical counsel to reappraisal nan case.

The Trump management has travel nether a firestorm of disapproval since nan DOJ and FBI issued a brief memo earlier this period saying they had thoroughly reviewed nan Epstein case, that nary 1 other was facing charges successful nan probe and they would not beryllium releasing much accusation successful nan future.

That has not sat good pinch immoderate of Trump's astir loyal supporters, fixed that Trump and members of his administration, including FBI Director Kash Patel and Deputy Director Dan Bongino, person helped substance conspiracy theories about nan politically connected financier.

Epstein was found dead successful a New York jailhouse compartment from termination successful 2019 while he was awaiting a proceedings connected activity trafficking charges, and his societal circle erstwhile included nan likes of Trump and erstwhile President Bill Clinton.

Trump has urged his supporters to move on, chiding those who don't arsenic “weaklings.” "I don’t want their support anymore!” he wrote successful a Truth Social post. He's besides started referring to nan lawsuit arsenic a "hoax."

Leavitt was asked what precisely Trump thought was nan hoax.

“The president was referring to nan truth that Democrats person now seized connected this, arsenic if they ever wanted transparency connected this, which is an asinine suggestion,” she said, complaining they didn’t “do a dang thing” erstwhile Joe Biden was president.

Other of nan president's friends person called for nan DOJ to simply release nan files in nan case, an thought Leavitt besides threw acold h2o on. She said that would person to beryllium done by nan DOJ, but if nan worldly includes expansive assemblage information, “a judge would person to o.k. it. That’s retired of nan president’s control.”

Trump had said during nan run that he would make nan Epstein files public, and Attorney General Pam Bondi had many times pledged to make much accusation available.

A newsman asked Leavitt if Trump thought justness had been served successful nan case.

"The president believes that he directed nan Department of Justice to do an exhaustive and thorough reappraisal and they did that. They each agreed, nan FBI director, nan lawman FBI director, nan lawyer general, connected nan memo they drafted and they released,” she said.

Trump said earlier this week that Bondi had fixed him a little reappraisal of her findings earlier this month, and Leavitt was asked if he had immoderate knowledge aliases knowing astir accusation successful nan lawsuit that hasn't been released.

“Not to my knowledge," she said, adding that nan "president has told nan lawyer wide if they person immoderate much reliable evidence, they should merchandise it.”