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House Oversight Committee Subpoenas Pam Bondi Over Epstein Files Handling · The Epstein Chronicles

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  Speaker 1: What's up, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the
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  Epstein Chronicles. We've been talking a lot about subpoenas lately,
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  and in this episode we're talking about another one, and
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  this time it's Pam Bondy who's on the clock because
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  the House Oversight Committee has now subpoenaed her for a
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  testimony about the Epstein files. Now, under normal circumstances, this
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  would be very, very dangerous for paum Bondy as far
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  as perjuring herself and telling falsehoods. But considering that Donald
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  Trump is just going to pardon her anyway, I expect
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  paum Bondy to be the same way that she was
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  during the last committee meeting when she made a fool
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  of herself and the administration. And unfortunately, nothing I've seen
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  from her leads me to believe that it's going to
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  be anything but the same kind of song and dance. However,
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  I do think that she'll probably decide not to talk
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  about the stock market this time. Remember that one. I
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  don't know what you're laughing at, Raskin. The Dow's over
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  fifty thousand, as if that has anything to do with
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  what we're talking about now, don't get it. Twisted. It's
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  always good when the stock market's banging, certainly not you know,
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  downplaying that good for everybody's four oh one, k et cetera. Great,
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  but that's not the topic of conversation. Stop trying to
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  move the goalposts, stop trying to gaslight people, and furthermore,
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  Pound Bondy, stop lying to the American public, especially while
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  you're under oath. Today's article is from NBC News and
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  the headline House Overside Committee votes to subpoena Pound Bondi
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  for testimony on the Epstein files. This article was authored
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  by Darrah Gregorian, Kyle Stewart, Owen Hayes, and Michael Kosner.
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  The Republican led House Overside Committee voted Wednesday to subpoena
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  Attorney General Pound Bondy for testimony on the department's handing
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  of records related to Jeffrey Epstein. The motion to subpoenal
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  Bondy passed by a vote of twenty four to nineteen.
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  Five Republicans voted for it, including Nancy Mace of South Carolina,
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  who put the motion forward. The Republicans voting with Mace
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  and the Democrats were Tim Burchett of Tennessee, Lauren Bobert
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  of Colorado, Michael Cloud of Texas, and Scott Perry of Pennsylvania.
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  And good on all of them, and shame on the
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  Republicans who voted against this. What's wrong with you? And honestly,
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  I don't want to hear shit about Oh, the kids,
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  the kids, the kids. You people don't care about the kids.
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  You care about yourselves and winning elections. That's what you
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  care about. The Justice Department did not immediately respond to
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  a request for comment. The Department acknowledged Wednesday that tends
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  that thousands of Epstein files are offline as it deals
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  with redactions and privacy issues that it hopes to have
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  addressed by the end of the week. A Bondi claims
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  the DOJ has released all the Epstein files. The record
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  is clear, they have not. Mace road on X She's
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  not wrong. They have not released all the files, and
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  they continue to play coy, Oh, well, we're going to
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  release this one, but not that one. Oh, this one
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  has some damning information about Santa Claus in it, so
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  we can't release it. And what vexes me is the
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  fact that there is no sort of teeth within the law.
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  Nobody can force their hand Bondi and the administration can
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  just do whatever they want. There is no oversight whatsoever.
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  The Epstein case is one of the greatest cover ups
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  in American history. His global sex trafficking network is larger
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  than what is being revealed. Three million documents have been
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  released and we still don't have the full truth. Videos
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  are missing, audio is missing, logs are missing. There are
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  millions more documents out there. We want to know why
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  the DOJ is more focused on shielding the powerful than
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  delivering justice. And you know what's crazy. All these clowns
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  are more mad at people like Hayley Robson than they
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  are people like Leon Black or Les Wexner. It is
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  just bananas to me. Macetole reporters after the vote, I
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  know that Bondi is testified before the Judiciary Committee, but
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  she's not testified before me or the Oversight committee. I
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  need to get to the bottom of this. For other
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  survivors of Jeffrey Epstein, well, props to Nancy Mace for
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  at least trying to make this happen and for moving
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  this forward. Now. Look, I'm not going to say that
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  I'm a big Nancy Mace fan. I'm not a big
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  fan of any politician, but anybody that's trying to move
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  this forward here, somebody I can at least not to
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  and say thank you. But of course I remain cynical
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  about the whole thing, and about her motivations and the
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  motivations of everybody else involved. There's a lot at play here,
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  a lot of politics, a lot of maneuvering, and a
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  lot of people trying to gain political ground when it
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  comes to this topic. So they can talk all they want,
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  it's action I'm looking for. I have a lot more questions,
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  and I don't expect to be talking about the stock market.
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  So she better not bring those notes when she comes
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  to the Oversight Committee, May said, referring to Bondie's contentious
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  hearing with the House Judiciary Committee last month when she
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  brought up the stock market's performance under President Donald Trump.
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  It was so disgustingly ridiculous. I have never been more
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  turned off watching one of those hearings ever in my life,
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  And in the old days, I watched a lot of
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  hearings like that. I went to school for political science,
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  and for me, the process of the government and how
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  it works has always been fascinating, and I can't ever
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  remember a time where somebody carried on the way Pam
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  Bondi did. It was an embarrassment not only to herself
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  but to the administration and the country as a whole.
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  And she needs to do better. So I hope that
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  this committee holds her to a standard, and I hope
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  Mace isn't just talking nonsense. Mace said. The subpoena is
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  for a closed door testimony with video that would be
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  released to the public afterward. There's no date yet for
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  the testimony. It should be public. Sorry, why closed door?
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  She's a sitting Attorney general, right, she owes that to us,
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  and this is why nobody trusts them. Oh, let's have
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  a closed door meeting and then we'll release the video.
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  Why not just have an open door meeting and let
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  everybody see it. What's the difference that way? You can
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  go off the record, so you guys can do your
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  k fabe and make pretend you hate each other, only
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  to be buddies afterwards. I'm not buying it. At last
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  month's How's Judiciary Committee hearing, Bondi touted the Justice Department's
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  efforts to comply with the Epstein File Transparency Act, which
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  mandated the public release of most information from the instigative
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  files and to Epstein and his co conspirator Glenn Maxwell.
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  More than five hundred attorneys and reviewers spent thousands of
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  hours painstakingly reviewing millions of pages to comply with Congress's law.
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  We've released more than three million pages, including one hundred
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  and eighty thousand images, all to the public while doing
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  our very best in that timeframe allotted by the legislation
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  to protect victims. Bondi said, well, she's, you know, doing
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  a great job, literally felled out all of it. But sure,
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  let's trust Pam Bondi, the paragon of truth. Congress passed
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  the bill after the Justice Department in the FBI said
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  in a memo in July that they had conducted an
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  exhaustive review of the files and would not charge anyone
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  else as part of Epstein's sex trafficking ring, which they
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  said affected over one thousand victims, and would not release
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  any more information about the case. Yo a thousand victims,
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  no arrests besides Glenn Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein, and Jean lu Brunel,
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  and we're closing the case, huh. And we should stop
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  asking questions. We should talk about the dow. Are you
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  on mushrooms? You can't be sober and talking like this, right,
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  that can't be the case. You have to be on
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  some kind of hallucinogenic. The Oversight Committee then subpoenaed the
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  Justice Department to turn over the files to Congress, but
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  it had turned over only about thirty thousand documents, most
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  of which had already been made public. And it was
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  a gigantic kick to the nerds. Right, oh, here you go. Wait,
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  hold on a minute, We've seen all of this already.
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  Weren't those files in the binders that you passed out
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  for all the idiots who carry water for you? Talk
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  about audacious. The Epstein Files Transparency Act, which Trump signed
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  into law in November, required that all documents be made
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  public within thirty days, with some exceptions. Deputy Attorney General
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  Todd Blanche announced the release of three million pages of
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  files at the end of January, but he said the
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  Department was withholding roughly three million more documents. Blanche has
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  said that many of them were duplicates, but some were
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  being withheld for various privileges, including deliberative process privilege, the
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  work product doctrine, and attorney client privilege. In other words,
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  screw you. Todd Blanche can do whatever he wants. The
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  bills co authors, Representative Thomas Massey and Rocanna say that
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  that's a violation of the law, which mandates the department
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  to turn over internal DOJ communication, including emails, memos, meeting
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  notes concerning decisions to charge, not charge, investigate, or decline
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  to investigate Epstein or his associates. Yeah, we haven't seen
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  any of that. Huh. And my guess is it's all
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  by design. They wanted to be as confusing as possible,
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  Blanche said. Other documents that have been withheld include some
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  that are in a foreign language and others that have
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  been sealed by judges. Lawmakers, and many Epstein's survivors have
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  repeatedly criticized how many of the documents have been redacted,
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  with information about possible accomplices blacked out, while some information
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  about victims was not redacted when it should have been. Again,
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  my guess, by design, and I'm sorry, but I'm not
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  giving the DOJ. Pambondi, Todd Blanche, and Donald Trump the
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  benefit of the doubt they have not earned that. The
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  Justice Department has also been criticized for repeatedly taking down
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  a number of files, sometimes for unspecified reasons. After a
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  Wall Street Journal article this week said tens of thousands
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  of pages are missing from the files, a department spokesperson
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  told NBC News in a statement that it has not
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  deleted any files in compliance with the EFTA. Our team
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  is working around the clock to address victim concerns, redact
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  personally identifiable information and any images of a sexual nature,
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  the statement said, referring to the bill Trump signed into
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  law in November. The statement added that as of Monday,
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  forty six hundred and thirty five files were offline for
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  further review and should be ready for reproduction by the
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  end of the week. This is the most transparent Department
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  of Justice in history, and all responsive documents will be
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  repopulated online once proper redactions are made. So let's just
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  go back and redact things retroactively. What exactly were those
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  hundreds of lawyers doing when they were working on their redactions?
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  The missing documents include some reason notes from three interviews
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  the FBI conducted with a South Carolina woman who alleged
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  that she was a sexual assault a victim of EPSTEIN
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  and also made sexual abuse allegations against Trump. To an
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  NBC News analysis of the Epstein files and information provided
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  by a source familiar with the investigation. It's not clear
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  whether the sexual abuse allegations against Trump were discussed in
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  other interviews. That the Justice Department did not release all
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  of it needs to be released, I'm sorry, but that's
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  how it goes. As for comment on the documents, last week,
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  the White House referred to a statement the Justice Department
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  issued when the Epstein files were released. It said some
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  of the documents contain untrue and sensationalist claims against President
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  Trump that were submitted to the FBI right before the
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  twenty twenty election. To be clear, the claims are unfounded
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  and false, and if they have a shred of credibility,
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  they certainly would have been weaponized against President Trump already,
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  which is incorrect. Mutually assured destruction. They didn't want to
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  light the whole thing on fire. Okay, That's why this
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  stuff was never opened. That's why this information was never used,
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  because if you tried to use it on Trump, you
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  have to use it on everybody. And they can't have that,
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  can they. Who's going to pay the bills? Trump, whom
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  law enforcement is not accused of any wrongdoing in connection
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  with Epstein. Has said that he stopped socializing with Epstein
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  in the early two thousands because he thought he was
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  a creep. Well, okay, I thought it was because he
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  was stealing workers or because of a business deal, But
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  I guess we'll just go with he was a creep.
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  And as far as Bondi goes, look, this woman is
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  an embarrassment and the fact that she's up there representing
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  the United States of America as the Attorney General is
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  a dark stain, and in my opinion, she needs to
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  be held accountable by Congress for her behavior. Will she be, Unfortunately,
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  I highly doubt it. But either way, we'll keep an
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  eye on things, and when we get a date, we'll
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  make sure we add it to the catalog. As far
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  as this one, well that's going to do it. All
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