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Pam Bondi Points to Todd Blanche in Epstein Files Testimony (6/5/26) · The Vault: The Epstein Files

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  Speaker 1: What's up, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the
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  Epstein Chronicles. When Pam Bondi gave her testimony to Congress,
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  we had several members of the Democratic Caucus tell us
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  that Pam Bondy was blaming Todd Blanche for overseeing the
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  entire rollout of the Epstein files, and of course Pam
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  Bondi said that wasn't true. Well, according to the transcripts.
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  I know this is going to shock you, but Pam
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  Bondy wasn't exactly truthful because she most certainly was trying
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  to blame Todd Blanche. So before we dive into those transcripts,
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  we have an article from The Guardian going a little
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  bit deeper on the topic. So with that said, let's
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  dive right in. This article was published by The Guardian
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  and the headline Pam Bondi claims Todd Blanche was in
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  charge of entire release of the Epstein files. This article
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  was authored by Anna Beetts, Formerurn Any General. Pam Bondi
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  told lawmakers that Todd Blanche, the man Donald Trump has
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  lined up to replace her, was in charge of the
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  US Department of Justice controversial handling of the Jeffrey Epstein case.
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  Always passed the buck, right, never me. I was busy
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  watching the DOW. I had nothing to do with this.
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  You better talk to Todd baby Billy Blanche. No honor
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  amongst thieves, right, and certainly no self responsibility amongst politicians.
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  Appearing before the House Oversight and Reform Committee, which is
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  investigating the late financier, pedophile and convicted sex offender, Bondi
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  also said she was not certain of the extent that
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  Trump knew about the crimes of Epstein and Glenn Maxwell,
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  the longtime associate of Epstein who's serving a twenty year
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  sentence for sex trafficking crimes before they became public. Oh,
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  he had no idea because look, there were no signs.
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  Jeffrey Epstein was just, you know, an average guy do
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  an average guy things said nobody ever, like, for real,
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  the whole entire We had no idea. Shit is so
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  ridiculous and so offensive that it's not even funny. Abigail Jackson,
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  the White House spokesperson, claimed in a statement on Thursday
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  that Trump had been totally exonerated on anything relating to
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  Epstein when contacted for comment on Bondie's testimony, Yeah, what
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  about the cover up? That's going on. You noticed they
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  don't talk about that, right, and that should be your clue.
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  The things they don't want to talk about, those are
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  the things you should be pressing on. And the fact
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  that there's a cover up going on right now is
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  kind of a big deal. And all these people that
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  were yelling about accountability, about Hunter Biden, about this, about that,
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  they sure are quiet now, aren't they. I mean, literally,
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  this is the most corruption I have ever seen from
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  an administration. All these fools are getting rich hand over fist.
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  There's no accountability, and certainly the country is not moving
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  in a direction that is beneficial to most of us.
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  But the trap has always been to talk about the
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  most salacious allegations when it comes to Trump, and considering
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  it's he said, she said, those are easy to defend.
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  But when you hammer these people on the cover up,
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  they don't have any kind of logical defense. And when
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  you're going after people like this, you have to look
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  for a weakness in the armor, and in this case
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  it's the cover up. When it was al Capone, it
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  was taxes. You have to find your entry point and
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  from there, well you can exploit whatever was going on.
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  Maybe as law enforcement but they've never even done that,
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  and that's because, well it's a cover up. Blanche, who
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  served as Bondi's deputy at the Justice Department, was responsible
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  for the entire release of the Epstein files, Bondie claimed,
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  according to a transcript release by the committee on Thursday.
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  Blanche was appointed as Acting Attorney General following Bondie's ouster,
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  and Trump said this week he planned to nominate him
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  for the role permanently. Well, yeah, I got to keep
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  the cover up going. Got to make sure that Glaine
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  Maxwell's buddy, Todd Blanche is still in a position to
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  where Donald Trump can try and rely on testimony from
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  Glene Maxwell, you know, like he's doing when it comes
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  to the battle with the Wall Street Journal. Imagine relying
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  on Glaine Maxwell's lion ass to help bolster your case.
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  Tell me, you can't make your argument without telling me.
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  Last week, Bondie faced questions about the Justice Department's handling
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  of the Epstein files during her tenure. Her appearance came
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  as the Department continues to face scrutiny over the files
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  and its compliance with the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which
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  mandated the release of Epstein related records held by the Department,
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  and they still haven't complied, all these months later, still
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  having complied. And the fact that people's names are adacted
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  inside of the files is ridiculous. All of the people
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  that were involved in the decision making their name should
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  be public knowledge. They were all public officials, right, they
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  were all being paid by taxpayer dollars. Right, So how
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  about some taxpayer accountability course not go get aft, make
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  sure your money's in there on time, though, before you
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  get nell with penalties. I'm tired of it. I'm tired
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  of the whole entire song and dance, and I'm sick
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  of being a puppet on a string. And you know
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  what else, I'm sick of the people out there are
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  telling you that it's all okay, that everything that's happening
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  is normal. None of this shit is normal, none of it.
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  And the amount of damage that's being done right now,
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  geopolitically and domestically is incalculable. Last week, Bondi faced questions
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  about the Justice Department's handling of the Epstein files during
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  your tenure. Her appearance came as the Department continues to
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  face scrutiny over the files and its compliance with the
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  Epstein Files Transparency Act, which mandated the release of the
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  Epstein related records held by the Department. The Department has
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  maintained it acted in accordance with the law. No one
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  has not. Several lawmakers on both sides of the aisle,
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  as well as survivors of Epstein's abuse, have criticized some
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  of the Department's actions and raised concerns over certain redactions
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  and the disclosure of sensitive personal information in the files.
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  I mean, you blame them. Imagine you're somebody who didn't
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  want your name out there, and then Pam Bondi and
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  their band of buffoons out you. Meanwhile, the protect everybody else,
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  but I know, just another accident, another coincidence. In her
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  opening statement and throughout her testimony, Bondi defended the Justice
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  Department's handling of the records under her leadership, at the
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  same time working to distance herself from the release and
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  review of the files, saying that she did not lead
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  every aspect of the Department's effort, but that it was
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  Blanche who oversaw it. Of course it was. And you
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  know how Jeffrey Epstein had Darren Endyke Well, President Trump
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  has baby Billy Blanche his whole entire function is to
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  defend Trump. That's it, nothing more and nothing less, not
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  about you or me, not about pursuing justice, not about
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  hammering people who actually commit crime. No, it's about protecting Trump.
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  He was in charge of the process and the entire
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  release of the Epstein files, she told lawmakers on May
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  twenty ninth. In her opening statement. She also said that
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  she did not conduct that document review myself and told
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  the panel that she delegated oversight of the process to Blanche.
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  Of course she did. Donald Trump wanted Blanche to take
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  care of it because that's his guy, and he knew
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  that Blanche was willing to play ball. In my opinion,
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  Blanche is corrupt. And all the people that were out
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  here yelling and screaming about Merrick Garland, who by the way,
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  was an on skull and a piece of work, they
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  should be screaming bloody murder about Todd Blanche. But they
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  want because they're hypocrites. And all the people out here
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  that put party before country, they can all get stuffed.
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  Your dumbass political party means nothing in the Grand scheme.
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  Bondi acknowledged that there were redaction errors in the release,
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  but insisted that since day one of the process. The
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  department has been committed to accountability and transparency. Sure. In
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  a break in questioning last week, several Democratic lawmakers told
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  reporters that Bondi was telling them that it was Blanche
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  that was leading the Epstein investigation and quite frankly, all
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  the mistakes that we saw, the redactions not protecting survivors.
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  She continues to push that back on the Acting Ag
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  Todd Blanche. Yo, Look, somebody made the mistake. Pam Bondi
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  was the boss at the time, so she's holding the
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  bag as far as I'm concerned. Anything that happened after that,
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  well that's Todd, Baby Billy Blanche's problem. But there's plenty
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  of blame to go around here, and I blame both
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  of these people. They're both in on the cover up. Afterward,
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  Bondi pushed back on the characterization in a social media post,
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  calling it not true and said that she praised Acting
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  Ag Blanche management of this herculean task. That does not
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  really seem to be the case. Seems to be that
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  Bondi certainly was blaming Todd Blanche, and I think you'll
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  see that when we start going through these transcripts in
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  the transcript, Bondi can be seen making the claims the
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  Democrats had made during the break and denying that she
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  was blaming anything on Todd. Todd Blanche is one of
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  the most highly ethical individuals I know, and I think
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  he's making an incredible acting attorney general, she said in
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  her testimony. And he managed this investigation and it was
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  a herculean task with very little error. Oh yeah, tell
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  that to the girls who were exposed. Tell that to
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  the people who were hurt by this. Well, maybe after
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  you tell us about the doll. If formally nominated by
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  Trump to be the Attorney General on a permanent basis,
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  Blanche would require a confirmation from the US Senate. Oh
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  he'll get it. All those people will just duck walk
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  for Trump. I mean that's all they do. They don't
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  have a backbone, no spine. They're all scared of them.
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  During Bondie's testimony last week, she also told lawmakers that
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  she learned of the controversial prison transfer of Maxwell through
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  news reports after it happened, claiming I had nothing to
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  do with that. Hold on, what does that even mean.
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  Pam Bondi is theag She's in charge of all of it.
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  She had no idea what was happening. So what she's
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  inferring here, at least as far as I can tell,
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  is that command came from above her. So who's above
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  the ag Well, the President of the United States. So
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  did Donald Trump order the true answer of Glenn Maxwell?
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  I have questions? Asked whether Maxwell should receive a pardon,
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  Bondie replied no, adding that Maxwell was a monster. I
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  believe she should die in prison. Said Bondie, Well, I
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  agree with that. That is something that I definitely agree
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  with because Glenn Maxwell is as evil as Epstein and
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  people need to really get that through their heads. Throughout
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  the interview, Bondi also declined to discuss any conversations with Trump,
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  saying she would not comment on discussion she had with
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  the US President. In one exchange, lawmakers asked Bondie whether
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  upon taking office, any victim or victim attorneys reached out
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  to the Department, Yes, Bondie replied. When asked how many,
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  she said she couldn't recall and added, I know multiple.
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  There were multiple victims and many of which I believe
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  the majority are represented by attorneys. Did you meet with
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  them personally or would that have been something that Todd
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  Blanche would have done, lawmakers asked Bondie, to which he responded,
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  I didn't know. I spoke to one attorney. I cannot
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  recall her name. Imagine being the Attorney general and not
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  wanting to speak to the survivors themselves, Like what are
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  we doing here? And how is it that some people
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  can't see the force through the trees and see that
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  this is a cover of I spoke to her, and
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  I believe I refer her to the FBI. She added,
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  You know, when a victim is represented, you go through
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  their attorney. Bondi's appearance before the committee followed weeks of
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  back and forth between the former attorney general and lawmakers
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  on the committee. In the wake of Bondi's testimony, Democrats
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  are urging the Representative James Comer, the Republican who chairs
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  the committee, to bring Blanche and the FBI Director Cash
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  Betel the also answer questions as part of the panel's
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  investigation into the Epstein case. That's a good idea. Let's
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  have everybody come in, but they're just going to give
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  us the same olbs, but even still getting them on
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  the record telling bullshit lies. I think that's a good
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  thing because later on down the road. That'll help set
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  the record straight and if there's an investigation later on
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  down the road, I think it's important to have all
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  the information, all the testimony that we possibly can. That way,
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  if people told us bullshit lies, they're held accountable. So
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  it's important to have the record now. If they're gonna
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  do anything with that record and try and find that accountability,
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  well that's a whole different story. So, like I said,
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  the transcripts from Pambondi, we're gonna start diving into those
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  today and then over the next few days we'll get
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  those added, and we'll also start taking a look at
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  the transcript from Tovin No Weel. So until then, that's
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  gonna do it for this one. All the information that
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