Lawmakers from both sides of the political aisle have turned on Attorney General Pam Bondi and have reportedly begun drafting articles of impeachment following the heavily opaque release of the Epstein files.
After months of mounting pressure, the Trump administration on Friday released about 20,000 images related to the Justice Department’s investigation of Jeffrey Epstein who was convicted of crimes related to sex trafficking in 2019 before he was found dead in his cell in New York City. However, heavy redactions to the documents – 100 pages believed to contain grand jury testimony appeared to be completely black – have prompted both Democrats and Republicans to demand Bondi’s impeachment and arrest.
In a video statement shared on social media, Rep. Ro Khanna, a Democratic from California who co-wrote the law mandating the complete disclosure of all government investigative files on Jeffrey Epstein by Friday, stated, “The justice department’s document dump this afternoon does not comply with Thomas Massie and my Epstein Transparency Act.”
Khanna’s video statement was posted on social media by Rep.Thomas Massie, a Republican from Kentucky who co-wrote the legislation. Massie commented that the document released by Bondi and Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, who was once Trump’s personal attorney, “grossly fails to comply with both the spirit and the letter of the law” that Trump signed “just 30 days ago.”
“A future DOJ could convict the current AG and others because the Epstein Files Transparency Act is not like a Congressional Subpoena which expires at the end of each Congress,” Massie wrote on X.
“Protecting a bunch of rapists and pedophiles because they have money, power, and connections. Bondi should resign tonight,” she continued.
“This is one of the documents the DOJ released. It’s 100 pages. It’s all black. It’s 100 pages of redaction. That’s the transparency we’re getting,” CNN Anchor Jake Tapper said in a broadcast, showing viewers the completely redacted documents.
source: https://www.newsbreak.com/
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