Five Republicans Join Republicans To Subpoena Pam Bondi Over DOJ's Handling Of Epstein Files

Five Republican lawmakers joined Democrats to vote to subpoena Attorney General Pam Bondi over the Department of Justice's handling of the Epstein files.

They are Tim Burchett, Lauren Boebert, Michael Cloud, Scott Perry and Nancy Mace, who introduced the motion.

"AG Bondi claims the DOJ has released all of the Epstein files. The record is clear: they have not," Mace said when announcing the vote to summon the official.

"The Epstein case is one of the greatest cover-ups in American history. His global sex trafficking network is larger than what is being revealed. Three million documents have been released, and we still don't have the full truth. Videos are missing. Audio is missing. Logs are missing. There are millions more documents out there. We want to know why the DOJ is more focused on shielding the powerful than delivering justice. The American people deserve answers, victims deserve justice. HOLD. THE. LINE," she added.

CBS News reported on Tuesday that the Department of Justice has been scrambling to remove tens of thousands of documents from the dataset. Links to the files direct to a "page not found error" on the DOJ's website.

Some of those document, the outlet adds, include explicit images of survivor information. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said the DOJ has withheld files to protect survivors and ongoing investigations, but lawmakers have criticized many redactions, saying they protect powerful people.

Elsewhere, NPR reported that the DOJ withheld some Epstein files containing allegations that President Donald Trump sexually abused a minor.

The report in question claims that the files include what appear to be more than 50 pages of FBI interviews and notes from conversation with a woman who made the accusation.

The outlet said it reviewed multiple sets of unique serial numbers appearing before and after the pages, as well as FBI case records, emails and discovery document logs. Dozens of pages appear to be catalogued by the DOJ but have not been shared publicly.

The FBI, it noted, circulated the allegations in July and August of last year. Agents marked most of them as unverifiable or not credible, but one lead was sent to the agency's Washington office to set up an interview with an accuser. She said the abuse took place around 1983 when she was about 13 years old. She claimed that Epstein introduced her to Trump, who sought to abuse her but ended up hitting her after she forcibly fended off his attempt.

The FBI interviewed the woman four time, according to NPR, which said it went through a list of Non-Testifying Witness Material in the case concerning Epstein's partner, Ghislaine Maxwell, which were released under the Epstein Files Transparency Act.

White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson commented on the report, saying that Trump has "done more for Epstein's victims than anyone before him." "Just as President Trump has said, he's been totally exonerated on anything relating to Epstein," she added.