A spokesperson dismissed the idea previously touted by the president, following a visit to the island by Interior Secretary Doug Burgum and U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi on Thursday

"Pam Bondi will reopen Alcatraz the same day Trump lets her release the Epstein files. So, never," Izzy Gardon, Newsom's director of communications, told SFGATE.

Gavin Newsom has called the Trump administration’s bluff, joking that the notorious Alcatraz prison in northern California will reopen the same day that the so-called “Epstein files” are released.