David Schoen, a former lawyer for Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein, said Attorney General Pam Bondi and other officials “jumped the gun a bit” in overhyping the Epstein files. Schoen in an interview with BBC “Newsnight” Thursday said there is no Epstein “client list” that would highlight connections between the disgraced financier and wealthy individuals.

President Donald Trump on Friday denied that Attorney General Pam Bondi had told him that his name appears in the so-called “Epstein files” connected to accused child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. Trump stunningly made the claim even though multiple reports say that Bondi briefed Trump in May that his name was found in Epstein documents “multiple times.