As a podcaster, Bongino called the Epstein story “one of the biggest political scandals of our time” and portrayed it as a wide-ranging conspiracy involving global elites.

U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday attacked fellow Republicans critical of his administration's handling of the case of dead sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. On social media and in the Oval Office,

President Donald Trump was unable to answer a basic question about whether he’d appoint a special counsel to investigate the so-called Epstein files. Instead, the frustrated president simply declared: “I have nothing to do with it,” before walking out of the room.