'Release the files', says Musk as Trump calls to end 'Epstein Files' obsession

Elon Musk on Sunday urged the US administration to release the files related to Jeffrey EpsteinldquoSeriously He said lsquoEpsteinrsquo half a dozen times while telling everyone to stop talking about Epstein Just release the files as promisedrdquo Elon Musk wrote on X while replying to a userSeriously He said ldquoEpsteinrdquo half a dozen times while telling everyone to stop talking about EpsteinJust release the files as promisedmdash Elon Musk elonmusk July 13 2025According to the AFP US President Donald Trumprsquos Department of Justice and the FBI stated in a memo released last week that there was no evidence Epstein maintained a socalled ldquoclient listrdquo or was blackmailing influential individualsThey also rejected claims that Epstein was murdered in jail confirming instead that he died by suicide in a New York prison in 2019 and announced that no further information on the investigation would be made publicThe decision was met with disbelief among sections of the American farright many of whom have supported Trump for years and drew harsh criticism of Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel as per the AFPldquoWhatrsquos going on with my lsquoboysrsquo and in some cases lsquogalsrsquo Theyrsquore all going after Attorney General Pam Bondi who is doing a FANTASTIC JOBrdquo Trump wrote in a lengthy post on his Truth Social platform on SaturdayldquoWersquore on one team MAGA and I donrsquot like whatrsquos happening We have a PERFECT Administration THE TALK OF THE WORLD and lsquoselfish peoplersquo are trying to hurt it all over a guy who never dies Jeffrey Epsteinrdquo he added referring to his ldquoMake America Great Againrdquo movementMany within the MAGA base have long claimed that socalled ldquoDeep Staterdquo operatives are concealing information about Epsteinrsquos highprofile associatesldquoNext the DOJ will say lsquoActually Jeffrey Epstein never even existedrsquordquo raged proTrump conspiracy theorist Alex Jones on X formerly Twitter following the release of the memo ldquoThis is overthetop sickeningrdquo reported the AFPFarright influencer Laura Loomer called for US President Donald Trump to sack Bondi over the matter labelling her ldquoan embarrassmentrdquoHowever Trump defended his attorney general on Saturday suggesting that the socalled ldquoEpstein Filesrdquo were a political hoax manufactured by the Democratic Party though he did not elaborate on what political gains they were supposedly seekingAdopting a tone of frustration Trump chastised his supporters for their fixation on the caseldquoFor years itrsquos Epstein over and over againrdquo he said ldquoLetrsquos not waste time and energy on Jeffrey Epstein someone nobody cares aboutrdquoThe US President Trump instead urged Patel and Bondi to redirect their attention to what he repeatedly claims was the ldquorigged and stolen election of 2020rdquo which he lost to Joe Biden according to the AFPTrump has consistently pushed unfounded conspiracy theories alleging widespread voter fraud in the 2020 electionHe called for the FBI to be allowed to focus on investigating those claims rather than ldquospending month after month looking at nothing but the same old Radical Leftinspired documents on Jeffrey Epsteinrdquo He added ldquoLET PAM BONDI DO HER JOB mdash SHErsquoS GREATrdquoTrump who appears in at least one decadesold video alongside Epstein at a party has denied any wrongdoing or direct association with the disgraced financier and insists he is not named in any of the documentsldquoThe conspiracy theories simply arenrsquot true they never have beenrdquo said FBI Director Patel on Saturday hours before Trumprsquos postHowever reports suggest not everyone in the administration shares that viewUS media reported that Dan Bongino a prominent rightwing podcast host and Trump appointee as FBI Deputy Director had allegedly threatened to resign over the administrationrsquos handling of the matter the news agency reported on Sundaywith AFP inputs