The acknowledgment represents a public walk-back of a theory that the Trump administration had helped promote, with Bondi suggesting that such a document was “sitting on my desk” for review.

Jeffrey Epstein did not maintain a "client list," the U.S. Justice Department said Monday, announcing that no more files related to the wealthy financier's sex trafficking investigation would be made public,

"We The People do not believe the latest Epstein excuses by the FBI and it's insulting to your base," one social media user wrote.