When Jeffrey Epstein died in prison, then-President Donald Trump speculated that authorities might be wrong in ruling it a suicide.

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi toured Alcatraz on Thursday as part of President Trump's directive to revert the popular tourist attraction to a federal penitentiary.

Attorney General Pam Bondi is touring former Alcatraz prison and the surrounding island, as the Trump administration pushes the idea of re-establishing it as a prison more than 60 years after it was closed.

The sustained backlash has exposed the hazards of the attorney general’s focus on courting President Trump, with the assumption that he maintains the total backing of his base.

The Justice Department said unsealing grand jury transcripts related to Epstein's case is necessary given "longstanding and legitimate" public interest in the case.

Pam Bondi took office as Florida's first female attorney general in 2011. Epstein had gotten out of the Palm Beach County Jail two years earlier.