Pam Bondi repeats claim that triggered MAGA meltdown

Attorney General Pam Bondi clammed up during a Senate committee hearing on Tuesday after being pressed on an alleged order given to FBI agents in an apparent attempt to shield President Donald Trump from being exposed for his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.

A whistleblower contacted the office of Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) back in July to allege that FBI agents tasked with reviewing files related to Epstein – the disgraced financier who died in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges and was known to socialize with powerful figures, including Trump – were instructed to “flag” any files that bore mention of Trump.

Durbin, who serves on the Senate Judiciary Committee, pressed Bondi during the hearing Tuesday on where this order came from.

“So who gave the order to flag records related to President Trump?” Durbin asked.

“To flag records for President Trump?” Bondi responded, giving the appearance that she didn’t understand the question.

“To flag any records which included his name,” Durbin clarified.

Bondi paused before, her voice rising as she spoke, shutting down Durbin’s question: “I’m not going to discuss anything about that with you, senator!”

“Eventually you're going to answer for your conduct in this,” Durbin said. “You won't do it today, but eventually you will.”

Durbin also pressed Bondi on a claim she made in February, where she told Fox News that Epstein’s supposed “client list” of powerful figures was “sitting on my desk right now to review,” a claim that preceded a leaked Justice Department memo that stated Epstein never maintained a client list to begin with.

Her later denial that a client list did not exist outraged many in the MAGA movement and triggered a firestorm that is still going on.

“Why did you publicly claim to have the Epstein client list waiting for your review, and then produce nothing relevant to that claim?” Durbin asked.

“If you listened to my entire clip on that, I said I had not reviewed it yet, that it was sitting on my desk along with the JFK files, the Martin Luther King files, and I said I had not yet reviewed it,” Bondi answered. “And, if you've seen our memo on Epstein, [it] clearly points out that there was no client list.”