Attorney General Pam Bondi and several other top officials in President Donald Trump’s administration have relocated to housing on a military base in the face of persistent threats.
Bondi “relocated” within the last month from an apartment to one of several military bases in Washington, where other Trump officials also reside, according to the New York Times, which cited several people with knowledge of the situation. According to reports, Bondi’s move was prompted by threats from cartels and criticism regarding her handling of documents about convicted child sex predator Jeffrey Epstein.
Other Trump officials who moved to military facilities amid security threats include Kristi Noem, who recently lost her gig as head of the Department of Homeland Security; Secretary of State Marco Rubio; and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth.
Although some reports claimed the housing was free, a representative for Noem previously told the Times that she was paying “fair-market rent” for her military base housing.
Threats against the attorney general have increased, according to Bondi’s staff, particularly in the last few months, due to the backlash against the Epstein files and the arrest of disputed Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, who is currently being charged with narco-terrorism in the United States.
After weeks of complaints about redactions and other issues in the files made public, Bondi said the Department of Justice had made “all” of Epstein’s files public.
The Justice Department on Thursday released three previously undisclosed interview summaries from the Epstein files containing uncorroborated allegations involving President Trump.
The documents include statements from a woman who alleged she was assaulted by convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and by Trump when she was a minor, the Washington Times reported.
The Justice Department said the interview summaries had originally been withheld from the January release of Epstein-related documents because they were mistakenly labeled as duplicates.
“After this was brought to our attention, we reviewed the entire batch with the similar coding and discovered 15 documents were incorrectly coded as duplicative,” the department said.
Democrats in Congress are investigating whether the Justice Department withheld the files because they contain four FBI interview reports, known as 302s, involving a woman who accused Trump of sexual assault.
Trump has refuted any misconduct in relation to Epstein’s allegations and has not faced any criminal charges.
Also, the same trove of documents notes that Trump alerted authorities to Epstein in the mid-2000s after he suspected the financier of indecent behavior.
Trump has never been charged with crimes and has long denied involvement in Epstein’s illicit activities.
The newly released interviews were conducted in 2019 after Epstein was arrested on federal sex trafficking charges.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt dismissed the allegations.
“These are completely baseless accusations, backed by zero credible evidence, from a sadly disturbed woman who has an extensive criminal history,” Leavitt said.
Before the documents were released, congressional Democrats accused the Justice Department of violating the Epstein Files Transparency Act.
The law requires the government to release investigative records related to Epstein while protecting the identities of victims.
When many Epstein files were released in January, officials warned that some materials submitted to investigators may contain false or unverified claims.
“This production may include fake or falsely submitted images, documents, or videos, as everything that was sent to the FBI by the public was included in the production that is responsive to the Act,” the Justice Department said.
“Some of the documents contain untrue and sensationalist claims against President Trump that were submitted to the FBI right before the 2020 election,” the department said. “To be clear, the claims are unfounded and false, and if they have a shred of credibility, they certainly would have been weaponized against President Trump already.”