US Attorney General Pam Bondi on Tuesday said she won’t discuss whether the Justice Department flagged Jeffery Epstein records mentioning Donald Trump. During the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, Bondi was repeatedly questioned by Democrats over the Epstein files. Illinois Democrat Senator Dick Durbin brought up the issue of the Epstein files and asked Bondi who gave the orders to flag any records that included Donald Trump's name. "I'm not going to discuss anything about that with you, Senator," Bondi said. Attorney General Pam Bondi testifies before a Senate Judiciary Committee oversight hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana) "Eventually you’re going to have to answer for your conduct in this, and you won’t do it today, but eventually you will," Durbin responded. Bondi grilled on 'Epstein files sitting on my desk' claim The Democrat also asked Bondi about her previous comment that the Epstein files are “sitting on my desk right now to review.” “You made a public claim that the Epstein client list was sitting on your desk for review. You then produced no client list. Why did you publicly claim to have the Epstein client list waiting for your review and then produce nothing relevant to that claim?” the senator asked. In response, Bondi accused Senator Durbin of not listening to her entire remarks. “If you see our memo on Epstein, you will see, our memo on Epstein clearly points out that there was no client list.” She further accused Durbin of accepting campaign donations from a friend of Epstein and pushing against GOP requests to release flight logs from Epstein's jet. "I did not refuse," Durbin said, referring to the flight logs. "One of the senators here wished to produce those logs, and I asked her to put it in writing, and she never did." Attorney General Pam Bondi appears for an oversight hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Allison Robbert) What Bondi said in the past about Epstein list In February this year, Bondi had claimed that the Epstein client list is "sitting on my desk right now." However, since then, the DOJ and the FBI have denied the existence of the Epstein client list, much to the anger among some Republicans and MAGA supporters, who have long demanded that all documents related to the disgraced financier should be made public. In July, the FBI and the Justice Department published a two-page memo after an “exhaustive review” of materials related to Epstein and said that there is no evidence of an ‘incriminating client list.’
