'Ludicrous': FBI insiders fume as Trump DOJ prioritizes 6-year-old case
FBI officials who are used to spending their time investigating terrorism, drug trafficking, and other high-profile crimes have been given a major new assignment that they are not at all happy to have.
Vanity Fair reports that the FBI's flagship field office in New York has been recruited in an "all hands on deck" effort to redact documents related to the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking case.
"The redeployment of agents to comb over the file of the notorious sex trafficker Epstein, who died nearly six years ago, is an indication of the Justice Department’s priorities in this second Trump administration," the publication reports. "One FBI veteran calls it a 'ludicrous' situation."
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Attorney General Pam Bondi has made releasing files related to the Epstein case a priority, although the first batch of files she released contained no significant information and led to a revolt of many Trump supporters who accused her of stonewalling.
Also complicating matters is the fact that President Donald Trump himself used to be friends with Epstein, even going so far as to publicly acknowledge that the late sex trafficker had a fondness for young women.
"I've known Jeff for 15 years," Trump told New York Magazine in an interview more than 20 years ago. "He's a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side. No doubt about it - Jeffrey enjoys his social life."