Bret Baier Warns Trump The Epstein Story ‘Doesn’t Go Away’

Fox News anchor Bret Baier acknowledged the growing public frustration over President Donald Trump’s push to move past Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking case.

Baier kicked off “Special Report” by crediting Trump for successes on border security and trade negotiations but said the Epstein case has continued to dominate political discussions.

“I mean, the story doesn’t go away here,” Baier said, leading into a news story on the latest Epstein updates.

“President Trump says his attorney general should release whatever documents she thinks are credible concerning the late businessman and convicted sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein,” Baier reported at the top of his show.

“It’s his latest comment in the ongoing controversy that has split many of the president’s supporters,” he went on, noting further that there is a base of Trump supporters who are still not satisfied to let this story simply go away.

Baier then brought in correspondent David Spunt, adding, “This story does not go away here.”

The Justice Department, meanwhile, has notified a federal court that it is conducting an ongoing review of documents related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein as part of a Freedom of Information Act case filed by Judicial Watch.

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Alan Dershowitz, Epstein’s former lawyer, claimed this week that two courts in New York are withholding information on the notorious financier and convicted sex offender’s case, not the Trump administration.

His comments come as President Donald Trump and his Justice Department (DOJ) have faced criticism for how they handled the case’s materials. Dershowitz, who helped obtain Epstein a plea agreement in 2008, stated that there is no Epstein “client list,” only a redacted FBI affidavit from accusations.

During an interview on NewsNation with Chris Cuomo, the former lawyer said that none of the individuals in the document are now holding public office.

Dershowitz maintained that he is unable to divulge further material due to judicial orders but that Attorney General Pam Bondi and President Trump are “not responsible” for the missing information.

“Is the government hiding a client list or anything that the Trump Administration could release tonight?” Cuomo asked.

“No, there’s no client list and never has been a client list. A client list suggests that Jeffrey Epstein made a list of people to whom he trafficked women. What there is, is a redacted FBI affidavit from accusers. There are several of them from accusers that accuse Jeffrey — that accuse various people of having improper sex, and that has been redacted, the names of the people accuse have been blacked out,” Dershowitz began.

“Now, of course, because I was lawyer and I did all the investigations, I know who all these people are. I could figure out, based on everything that I saw, who Mr.X is, Mr. Y is, and Mr. Z. I can tell you right now: None of them are public figures who are currently in office. Some of them were previously in office. Some of them are dead. But there is no client list. And the redactions could be undone if you go to court,” Dershowitz added.

“So, many of the things that are being suppressed are being suppressed by two judges in Manhattan, and they’re doing it largely to protect the alleged accusers who are, in the view of the judges, victims, even though we don’t know what their actual status is. But the judges have issued orders, which is why I can’t disclose things I’d love to disclose, saying that you can’t disclose this information. But Pam Bondi and the Justice Department and Donald Trump are not responsible for that. I don’t know of any information that they could disclose that they haven’t disclosed,” he continued.

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“Now maybe there is some, but I’m simply not aware of it. And so I think it’s important to place the blame where the blame deserves to be placed. The vast majority of people who are in the files — and I I know them all, I’ve seen all the names — the vast, vast majority of them have already been disclosed. They’re in articles all over the world. They’re in books that have been written,” Dershowtiz declared.

“So if we got everything, everything, you would be shocked how few names are there that haven’t already been disclosed. The media hasn’t, by the way, done a good enough job in finding the people who have been disclosed in the public record. So that’s that list,” he concluded.