Attorney General Pam Bondi told a Democratic senator she would not answer any of his questions about FBI agents being told to flag any records about President Donald Trump in files on sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
During a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Tuesday, Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) noted that Bondi had claimed on Fox News that she was in possession of the "Epstein client list," but later stated that it didn't exist.
Bondi deflected by answering a previous question about Department of Justice grants.
"Going back to the Epstein files, according to another whistleblower who made a protected disclosure to my office, you pushed the FBI to review approximately 100,000 Epstein-related records on an arbitrarily short deadline in March, and the FBI was directed to flag any documents that mentioned President Trump," Durbin noted.
"And, you know, Senator Durbin, I find it very interesting that you refused repeated Republican requests to release the Epstein flight logs," Bondi shot back. "Why did you fight to not disclose the flight log, Senator Durbin?"
"So who gave the order to flag records related to President Trump?" Durbin pressed. "To flag records for President Trump. To flag any records which included his name."
"I'm not going to discuss anything about that with you, Senator," the attorney general snapped.
"Eventually you're going to have to answer for your conduct in this," Durbin concluded. "You won't do it today, but eventually you will."
