Former Attorney General Bill Barr arrives for a deposition under subpoena from the House Oversight Committee investigating the Jeffrey Epstein case at the US Capitol, August 18, 2025. J. Scott Applewhite/AP

Former Attorney General Bill Barr recounted in recent testimony with House investigators how he informed President Donald Trump of Jeffrey Epstein ’s suicide in 2019.

“I called [the president] up and said, ‘You better brace for this,’ and I told him words to that effect, and I told him about it and told him we were going to be investigating it very vigorously,” said Barr, who was serving as attorney general under the Trump administration when Epstein died in a cell in the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York.

“He had the same reaction I did, which was, ‘How the hell did t

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