A Florida man who went on a furious social media rant regarding pedophile Jeffrey Epstein’s client list has been arrested by federal authorities. 

A criminal complaint by the FBI filed in the Middle District of Florida accuses Terrell Bailey-Corsey of spouting off on X, claiming that he would use a machete to butcher people who were on Epstein’s client list. 

Bailey-Corsey, in an online battle with X’s AI tool Grok on July 15, allegedly made the threats from his account. 

Terrell Bailey-Corsey allegedly went on a violent rant threatening to kill elected officials and people on Jeffrey Epstein’s client list, the FBI says. He was arrested on July 17, 2025.  (FBI)

Recently, President Donald Trump, who campaigned on releasing files related to Epstein’s alleged sex trafficking and pedophilia ring, ignited a firestorm when he and Attorney General Pam Bondi said the client list does not exist and that Epstein died by suicide. 

Bondi had previously said the list was on her desk and that she was reviewing it. 

The complaint said that Bailey-Corsey admitted to making the posts and expressed remorse, and that he “possessed a knife, machete, and bow and arrow.”

“Based on the foregoing information, I respectfully submit that probable cause exists to believe that Terell BAILEY knowingly transmitted in interstate commerce a true threat to injure the person of another, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 875(c),” the complaint concluded. 

The Department of Justice did not immediately return a comment request.