The President Who Desperately Wants to Let Go – Trump’s Epstein Memo, Pam Bondi, and the Dirty Game of Blame

It was supposed to be a release. A short memo, two pages, published by Trump’s Department of Justice on July 7, 2025 – an official denial, sober and final: there was no so-called “Epstein client list,” no secret documents, no hidden names. But what was intended as a final stroke turned into the starting shot for a new escalation. Because within just a few days, the rage of the MAGA movement didn’t erupt against political opponents – but against Trump himself. And he reacted the way he always does: with a furious tirade that reactivated old enemies and named new culprits.

“This whole damn thing was written by Obama! Crooked Hillary signed off on it, Sleepy Joe knew everything – and Pam is getting dragged into this even though she has nothing to do with it!” Trump raged in a Truth Social post that was longer than a page and read like a real-time emotional breakdown. The outrage was mainly directed at one point: that his loyal ally, Attorney General Pam Bondi, was being attacked by his own base – as an alleged cover-up artist, as part of a supposed “Deep State” deal to suppress the Epstein files. For Trump, this wasn’t just politically dangerous. It was personal.

Bondi, a longtime member of his inner circle, had taken on the matter at his behest and now had to bear the brunt of the storm unleashed by the memo. In a telling image taken on June 5, she was still seated next to the president, both behind microphones, professional and resolute. Now, she finds herself at the center of a right-wing firestorm, fueled by conspiracy theorists, influencers like Dan Bongino, currently serving as deputy director of the FBI, Laura Loomer, and Telegram channels desperate to force a truth that never existed. And Trump? Instead of distancing himself from the madness, he does what he always does: he indicts the past while losing control over the present. The absurdity of this development - a president begging his own base to finally move on from the Epstein saga. A cabinet secretary forced to defend herself, though all she did was carry out her duty. And a public drifting ever deeper into the logic of distrust. In the end, one image remains - an image that speaks volumes: If even Trump is no longer enough to calm the ghosts he himself summoned, then who is? The hunt is on.