Congressional Democrats have accused US Attorney General Pam Bondi of engaging in a “cover-up” of the Jeffrey Epstein files and turning the Department of Justice, DOJ, into an “instrument of revenge” for President Donald Trump.
Reports say,the panel’s ranking Democrat, Jamie Raskin, criticized the slow release of the Epstein files and the redactions made to the documents, saying they were ordered to turn over six million documents, but they turned over only three million.”
Recall that the Epstein Files Transparency Act, passed by Congress in November, compelled the DOJ to release all documents in its possession related to Epstein within 30 days.
But Bondi, testifying before the House Judiciary Committee, defended the DOJ’s handling of the release of the Epstein records and said there are “pending investigations” in the case.