Trump ally Kash Patel, appointed FBI director during Trump’s second tenure, and former FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino, both previously questioned the official suicide ruling. By May this year, however, both said they accepted the government’s conclusion about Epstein’s death.

Attorney General Pam Bondi deflected several questions on Tuesday when asked about the firestorm surrounding the Department of Justice and FBI's Jeffrey Epstein memo released last week.The ContextThe memo confirmed local and federal investigators' conclusion that Epstein died by suicide in 2019 in his Manhattan jail cell,