There’s brewing frustration with the Justice Department as another key deadline for it to release highly anticipated files looms after the much-hyped and botched release of Jeffrey Epstein files.
Sunday marks the second deadline in the effort to release files on the Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. assassinations. But it’s being met with skepticism.
President Donald Trump signed an executive order to declassify files on President John F Kennedy, his brother RFK and MLK in January.
March 9 was the expected deadline for the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) and attorney general to submit their proposed release plans. They previously had a February 7 deadline for plans on the JFK files.
But after the release of Epstein files fell dramatically flat, Attorney General Pam Bondi’s department is already being slammed on social media.
Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel are being slammed on social media over the release of the Epstein files as another deadline to release files in other cases loomed on Sunday
‘Where’s the Epstein files?’ multiple X users have been posting online.
In response to Fox News’ reporting on the deadline, many on social media rejected that there would be any real developments.
‘This will probably be as anticlimactic as the Epstein docs, possibly even more so,’ one person wrote.
‘I’m not falling for the Bondi hype,’ wrote another.
Other people on social media took issue with FBI Director Kash Patel posting about attending a UFC fight in Las Vegas over the weekend.
‘We still don’t have the Epstein files,’ wrote one X user while another chimed in ‘Is the Epstein list there?’
A MAGA fan wrote ‘Where are the Epstein, JFK & MLK files?’ while another post read ‘Bad optics bro Epstein client list and arrests need to happen. We haven’t forgotten your promise.’
The deadline for RFK and MLK plans comes just weeks after the Justice Department released a batch of Epstein documents in late February.
But it turned out that many of the documents released were already public from the federal criminal trial of Epstein’s partner Ghislaine Maxwell.
Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell in 2005
Bondi was furious after her highly anticipated Epstein File release in late February was widely panned for failing to unearth any new information. Pictured: right wing influencers and commentators leaving the White House with the Epstein Files: Phase 1
Bondi revealed last week that a ‘truckload’ of Epstein files were delivered to her at the Justice Department last week after she ordered the FBI turn over everything on the late convicted sex offender.
Speaking to Fox News’ Sean Hannity on Monday night, Bondi said Patel delivered additional documents on Friday at 8am. She described it as a ‘truckload of evidence.’
The attorney general said that Patel has a team of employees shift through ‘thousands of pages of documents’ while also working on a report as to why documents were withheld.
Amid MAGA backlash, Bondi said she had been misled ahead of the initial release of documents and more would be released after necessary redactions were applied.
In January, President Trump signed an executive order directing ODNI to review records related to the assassinations of RFK and MLK and present a plan to release documents within 45 days. The deadline fell on Sunday
In his executive order to release files the MLK and RFK assassinations signed just days after he was sworn into office, Trump directed the office of the DNI to review records related to the assassinations and ‘present a plan for their full and complete release within 45 days.’
