President Donald Trump pleaded ignorance when asked Wednesday whether he would appoint a special counsel to get to the bottom of the Jeffrey Epstein investigation.
CNN correspondent Kristen Holmes broke the news after Trump spent the day slamming the Epstein case as a Democratic "hoax" while denigrating his MAGA followers as "stupid" and "weaklings" for believing there was a government conspiracy surrounding the pedophile.
Trump also took the opportunity to defend Attorney General Pam Bondi, who officially declared the case closed in a joint statement with the FBI a week ago.
"I can say that Pam Bondi, I really think that she's done very good," Trump argued from the Oval Office. "She says, I gave you all the credible information and if she finds any more credible information, she'll give that to you. What more can she do than that?"
Holmes reported from outside the White House on Wednesday afternoon, saying, "Now, I do have a little bit of news here, because the big question that has been going on is what is actually going to happen next? And our White House producer...was able to just catch the president as he was leaving this event and asked if he would be willing to appoint a special prosecutor to look into the investigation of Jeffrey Epstein. He said, 'I don't have anything to do with that.'"
Holmes continued, "Now let's just remember here, this is a Department of Justice that has everything to do with the White House. They don't make any single move without consulting the White House. So, if there is to be a special investigator, a special counsel in this case, it is likely that that's going to be a conversation that the attorney general has with President Trump beforehand. It is something that we are seeing now really getting louder and louder; he calls from his own base to have this special counsel."