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   WASHINGTON — Attorney General Pam Bondi ripped House Judiciary Committee   
   Ranking Member Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) as a “washed-up, loser lawyer”   
   before clashing with lawmakers of both parties during a Wednesday   
   hearing.   
      
   President Trump’s top law enforcement official testified before the   
   panel following the release of millions of files related to the   
   prosecution of deceased pedophile Jeffrey Epstein — with several victims   
   in attendance.   
      
   Judiciary Democrats and one Republican accused Bondi of ignoring those   
   victims and having her Department of Justice harmfully release documents   
   identifying some of them — while redacting identities of members of   
   Epstein’s rich and powerful circle.   
      
   “You’re not showing a lot of interest in the victims,” Raskin challenged   
   her. “Whether it’s Epstein’s human trafficking ring or the homicidal   
   government violence against citizens in Minneapolis, as attorney general   
   you’re siding with the perpetrators and you’re ignoring the victims.”   
      
   In heated exchanges with Raskin, the AG accused Democrats of only caring   
   about the issue because Trump is in the White House.   
      
   Raskin demanded in one of those back-and-forths that Judiciary Chairman   
   Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) restore time to retiring Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY),   
   as Bondi ignored his question about possible indictments of Epstein   
   co-conspirators.   
      
   “You can let her filibuster all day long, but not on our watch — not on   
   our time, no way,” Raskin said. “And I told you about that, Attorney   
   General, before you started.”   
      
   “You don’t tell me anything,” Bondi erupted, before mocking Raskin as a   
   “washed-up, loser lawyer — not even a lawyer.”   
      
   Bondi then rounded on Nadler, telling him: “You said the president   
   conspired, sought foreign interference in the 2016 election. Robert   
   Mueller found no evidence, none, of foreign interference in 2016. Have   
   you apologized to President Trump?   
      
   “You all should be apologizing. You sit here and you attack the   
   president, and I am not going to have it. I’m not going to put up with   
   it,” she continued.   
      
   “None of them asked [former Attorney General] Merrick Garland, over the   
   last four years, one word about Jeffrey Epstein. How ironic is that? You   
   know why? Because Donald Trump.”   
      
   Most Democrats’ questions — as well as those of Rep. Thomas Massie   
   (R-Ky.) — focused on the so-called “Epstein files,” claiming that the   
   DOJ was covering for those potentially implicated in crimes.   
      
   At one point, Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) asked Epstein victims or   
   their family members in attendance to stand and raise their hand if they   
   “had not been able to meet with this Department of Justice.”   
      
   Bondi responded while staring forward: “Why didn’t she ask Merrick   
   Garland this twice when he sat in my chair? I’m not going to get in the   
   gutter for her theatrics.”   
      
   Massie and Rep. Ro Khanna (R-Calif.) co-authored a bill signed by Trump   
   this past November that released more than 3 million pages of   
   investigative materials on Epstein and his convicted accomplice   
   Ghislaine Maxwell.   
      
   Since then, Massie, Khanna, and others have questioned why some men   
   they’ve identified as potential co-conspirators had their names redacted   
   in the DOJ files — while some victims had their identities unmasked.   
      
   “Literally the worst thing you could do to the survivors” Massie lashed   
   out at Bondi, “you did.”   
      
   “If any man’s name was redacted that should not have been, we will of   
   course unredact it,” Bondi said. “If a victim’s name was unredacted,   
   please bring it to us, and we will redact it.”   
      
   Massie hit back at the attorney general in his line of questioning,   
   showing three documents “emblematic of the massive failure of the DOJ to   
   comply with the Epstein Files Transparency Act.”   
      
   Bondi blew past the line of questioning, telling Jordan that Massie “has   
   Trump Derangement Syndrome” and calling him a “failed politician.”   
      
   The attorney general used her time to draw attention to how Democrats   
   and their donors had associated with Epstein for years before his arrest   
   on federal charges in July 2019 — including long after he had pleaded   
   guilty in 2008 to soliciting a minor for prostitution and registered as   
   a sex offender.   
      
   US Virgin Islands Delegate Stacey Plaskett, a Democrat, had even texted   
   with the disgraced financier during a 2019 House Oversight Committee   
   hearing to get tips about questioning ex-Trump legal fixer Michael   
   Cohen.   
      
   A rep for the Democratic delegate said in a previous statement that   
   “Plaskett received texts from staff, constituents and the public at   
   large offering advice, support and in some cases partisan vitriol,   
   including from Epstein.”   
      
   “Jerry Nadler attacking Attorney General Bondi over Epstein, while his   
   colleague Rep. Plaskett was using Jeffrey Epstein as a confidant and   
   adviser, is the height of hypocrisy,” former Bondi chief of staff Chad   
   Mizelle told The Post.   
      
   “The Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee did nothing to bring   
   justice and transparency to the Epstein saga,” he added. “Attorney   
   General Pam Bondi has.”   
      
   https://nypost.com/2026/02/11/us-news/bondi-tears-into-dems-on-house-judi   
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