U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi revealed on Monday evening that the thousands of files that had been withheld concerning deceased human trafficker and notorious pedophile Jeffrey Epstein have finally been handed over to the FBI. She also stated that there certain redactions that must be made, however, there will be an explanation for each one.
The Justice Department put out the first phase of “The Epstein Files,” which was a 100-page document, on Thursday, however it didn’t contain anything we all didn’t already know. A major controversy erupted over it online.
During the appearance Bondi made on Sean Hannity’s Fox News program, the host asked her about the angry mob online, asking for her to issue a response to it all. Bondi said that she’d only been told 24 hours prior to its release that “there were way more documents that they were supposed to turn over.”
“You’re looking at these documents going, ‘These aren’t all the Epstein files.’ There were flight logs, there were names, victims’ names, and we’re going, ‘Where’s the rest of the stuff?’ That’s what the FBI had turned over to us,” Bondi told Hannity. “So a source said, ‘Whoa, all this evidence is sitting in the Southern District of New York.’ So based on that, I gave them the deadline, Friday at 8, a truckload of evidence arrived.”
“It’s now in the possession of the FBI. Kash is going to get me, and himself really, a detailed report as to why all these documents and evidence had been withheld,” the attorney general continued. “We’re going to go through it, go through it as fast as we can, but go through it very cautiously to protect all the victims of Epstein, because there are a lot of victims.”
Before the first phase of documents was released to the public, Bondi spoke with Fox News and said that the Justice Department would be releasing a selection of the files to the general public. She was hoping everyone would see “a lot of flight logs, a lot of names, a lot of information.”
According to The Daily Caller, both the DOJ and the Trump administration ended up catching a whole lot of flack over the release of the binder since it essentially held nothing we didn’t know from previous media reports.
Later in the interview, Hannity gave Bondi a bit of push concerning the redactions being made to the files.
“National security, some grand jury information, which is always going to be confidential, but we’ll see. Let’s look through them as fast as we can. Get it out to the American people, because the American people have a right to know,” She replied. “Not only on that, but on Kennedy, on Martin Luther King, on all of these cases that the Biden administration has just sat on for all these years.”
“It’s really — it’s not sad. It’s infuriating that these people thought that they could sit on this information, but they can’t,” Bondi explained. “And when we redact things, Sean, what we’re going to do is not just pull pages out like they used to do. If something’s redacted, you will know the line, and you will know why it’s redacted, the victim’s name, identifying information of a victim.”
Epstein was arrested and charged in 2019 with sex trafficking, only later to be found dead in his New York Metropolitan Correctional Center cell a month after his arrest. Since his death, Republicans, including Tennessee Sen. Marsha Blackburn, have called for the full, unredacted records of Epstein to be released to the public, which includes his infamous flight log.
After the release of phase one, Bondi requested that the FBI deliver the remaining documents to the DOJ by Friday at 8 a.m., tasking newly confirmed FBI Director Kash Patel with investigating “why the request for all documents was not followed.”
“We believe in transparency, and America has the right to know. The Biden administration sat on these documents. No one did anything with them. Why were they sitting in the Southern District of New York? I want a full report on that,” Bondi went on to say.
“Sadly, these people don’t believe in transparency, but I think more, unfortunately, I think a lot of them don’t believe in honesty,” the attorney general concluded. “It’s a new day. It’s a new administration, and everything’s going to come out to the public. The public has a right to know. Americans have a right to know.”
Bondi’s right on the money. We The People deserve to know what our politicians were up to when they were hanging around with Epstein, flying around on his plane, visiting his private island. If they were engaged in sexual crimes, they need to be removed from public service and brought up on charges.
It’s time for Trump to make justice real again.
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