@thedailybeast: Former CNN White House Correspondent Jim Acosta says President Donald Trump is shaking in his boots amid fallout over the infamous “Epstein files.” “You know, I’ve been around Donald Trump. I’ve been up close with him. I think I know when he’s worried, and he is freaking out right now over these Epstein files,” Acosta said on MSNBC Sunday. “He’s twisted himself into a pretzel on this.” Acosta’s comments follow after news broke late last week that the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) have determined that, contrary to the long-cherished beliefs of MAGA conspiracy theorists, disgraced financial Jeffrey Epstein died by suicide while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges in 2019, rather than being murdered, and kept no “client list” of superwealthy co-conspirators. The news has ignited Trump’s MAGA base, which has called for Attorney General Pam Bondi to resign. Bondi said in February that Epstein’s “client list” was “sitting on my desk right now to review.” On Wednesday, FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino laid into Bondi over for overpromising and failing to deliver on the Epstein files. He failed to show up to work on Friday and has threatened to resign over the controversy. Trump tried to calm the waters in a Truth Social post Saturday, writing, “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.” Read the full story at the link in bio.⁠ __⁠ ⁠ ⁠ Photo by Getty Images/The Daily Beast ⁠ #DonaldTrump #MAGA #Politics #Conservative #Epstein #JeffreyEpstein #PamBondi #JimAcosta #CNN #FBI

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