Bongino, the deputy director of the FBI, “is out of control furious,” one source told NBC News. Another said he did not report to work on Friday.

Tensions within the Trump admin have escalated after a reported heated exchange earlier in the week between Bongino and Bondi.

Attorney General Pam Bondi had previously promised the public release of scores of records associated with federal probes into Epstein.

Despite indications from the Justice Department that its search for files related to sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein is over, the FBI has told a legal watchdog group that it is still looking through its system.

The Justice Department and FBI are struggling to contain the fallout and appease the demands of far-right conservative personalities and influential members of President Donald Trump’s base after

The Trump administration’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein investigation has divided officials at the Justice Department and FBI, with top leaders pointing fingers at one another as they try to explain to President Donald Trump’s furious base why they are not revealing new information from the high-profile probe,

In many of the previous reports about the Epstein scandal, authorities have referenced the “dozens” of victims that the billionaire is alleged to have abused. Meanwhile, a class-action lawsuit filed last year alleged the predatory financier had “hundreds” of victims.

Former White House adviser Steve Bannon demanded on Thursday the publication of all the documents related to deceased pedophile Jeffrey