It is sitting on my desk right now,” Attorney General Pam Bondi said in February of Epstein’s alleged client list. On Monday her agency said the list doesn’t exist.

Rachel Maddow looks at how, on top of everything else Americans have to deal with from the Trump administration, there is now a millionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein-Donald Trump sub-plot as well. Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI deputy director and former podcaster Dan Bongino are straining for credibility in their insistence that the Epstein "client list" is a nothing burger after devoting considerable energy and attention to not only confirming the existence of the list but hinting at its blockbuster contents.

Donald Trump's MAGA base is up in arms after his administration effectively shut down conspiracy theories related to notorious sex offender Jeffrey Epstein that had become an obsession for the US president’s diehard supporters.