The world’s richest man jumped headlong into a MAGA meltdown Monday after Pam Bondi’s Justice Department and the FBI shot down claims about a so-called “client list” belonging to late child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Elon Musk posted scorn at the claim on X, just weeks after he made a sensational accusation that President Donald Trump was on the disgraced Epstein’s list.
Musk revealed his claim against Trump in early June, saying it was “time to drop the big bomb” as he descended into a ferociously falling out with his former ally over the president’s budget bill.
Federal agencies are also preparing to release video footage they say proves Epstein took his own life in a Manhattan detention center while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges and was not murdered, according to a memo obtained by Axios.
Two Trump loyalists at the FBI—Director Kash Patel and Deputy Director Dan Bongino—have previously pushed the unsubstantiated claim that Epstein didn’t kill himself in his Manhattan cell.
But the administration has now confirmed there’s no evidence Epstein “blackmailed prominent individuals” and that no further charges, beyond those already filed against his associate Ghislaine Maxwell, are expected in connection with the federal probes into the billionaire financier. Maxwell is currently serving 20 years for child sex trafficking and related crimes.
Maga loyalists are furious at Bondi for backtracking after saying the client list was on her desk earlier this year.
Musk lashed out at the agencies’ findings in his X post early Monday.
“What’s the time? Oh look, it’s no-one-has-been-arrested-o’clock again,” Musk posted on X, along with a mock-up image of an “official Jeffrey Epstein pedophile arrest counter” stuck at zero.
Musk also shared a meme of a man applying clown makeup in stages, expressing frustration that Attorney General Pam Bondi once vowed to release the Epstein list, even telling Fox News in February it was “sitting on my desk right now to review.”
The last image in the meme shows the clown fully made-up, alongside the text: “There is no Epstein list.”