Charlie Kirk: On Epstein, 'I'm going to trust my friends in the administration'

Conservative activist and Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk said on Monday that he is trusting the Trump administration to handle the files related to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein. 

“Plenty was said this last weekend at our event about Epstein,” Kirk said on his show on Real America’s Voice, referring to last weekend’s Turning Point USA conference in Tampa. 

“Honestly, I'm done talking about Epstein for the time being. I'm gonna trust my friends in the administration, I'm gonna trust my friends in the government to do what needs to be done, solve it, ball's in their hands,” he continued. 

Kirk went on to say that he would “love” to see the Justice Department move forward to unseal the grand jury testimony, saying it would be “a big win.”

“I'm gonna trust my friends Kash Patel, Dan Bongino, my friend Pam Bondi. All these guys,” Kirk said, adding Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche. 

“Ball's in their court. I think that there was plenty of, let's say, speeches that were directed towards this topic this last weekend. So we don't need to spend our valuable time on this program relitigating it,” he said.

Last week, the DOJ and FBI released a joint memo saying Epstein did not have a client list and confirmed he died by suicide in his New York City jail cell in 2019. The memo’s release has angered members of the MAGA movement, who have elevated conspiracy theories about the financier’s death and claims that a number of high-profile Democrats were named on a client list. 

Attorney General Pam Bondi has been on the receiving end of particularly intense backlash, over her comments earlier this year pledging transparency around the Epstein files. The handling of the documents has also led to infighting among officials in the Justice Department and at the FBI, including Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino.

Much of that anger was on display at the Turning Point USA conference over the weekend. Conservative host and commentator Megyn Kelly asked the crowd “Bondi or Bongino?” resulting in the crowd to respond “Bongino.” 

According to CNN, Trump called Kirk over the weekend to relay his support for Bondi. 

Trump publicly defended Bondi in a lengthy TruthSocial post on Saturday evening. 

“What’s going on with my ‘boys’ and, in some cases, ‘gals?’ They’re all going after Attorney General Pam Bondi, who is doing a FANTASTIC JOB! We’re on one Team, MAGA, and I don’t like what’s happening. We have a PERFECT Administration, THE TALK OF THE WORLD, and ‘selfish people’ are trying to hurt it, all over a guy who never dies, Jeffrey Epstein,” Trump said.