Senators Trade Barbs Over Who Stopped Epstein Probe at Tense Bondi Hearing: ‘You Even Shut Down The Committee!’

Democrats and Republicans continued to squabble over which side is holding up the release of more information related to disgraced sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein on Tuesday, with Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) blaming Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) for not doing the proper paperwork needed to release Epstein’s flight logs.

Blackburn, during a Senate hearing with Attorney General Pam Bondi, immediately countered that Durbin was lying.

“Sen. Durbin knows I repeatedly asked for those flight logs. I brought up the subpoena. You even shutdown the committee [on Epstein] because you didn’t want that. And you know I submitted that in writing and you continued to misrepresent that, and I am not going to let that record stand,” Blackburn told him.

Durbin responded: “I just want to make it clear that the reason the committee business ended is because your side invoked the two hour rule. Point number two is I asked you if you wanted any documents like flight logs to put it in writing, you never did.”

Blackburn shot back, “Yes sir I did! And your staff knows that I did—”

“No — send me a copy of that—,” replied Durbin

“We’ll submit, once again, the information to you. We’ve done that several times, but we’ll be happy to send it to you. I think your staff doesn’t show that to you,” remarked Blackburn, putting a lid on the dispute.

The spat happened right after Bondi questioned Durbin about why he was dragging his feet on the Epstein investigation — and wondered whether LinkedIn co-founder and Dem mega-donor Reid Hoffman had anything to do with it.

“I find it very interesting that you refused repeated Republican requests to release the Epstein flight logs in 2023 and 2024. You fought that,” Bondi said. “Did you take money from Reid Hoffman, campaign donations, who was a huge Epstein friend. Why did you fight for years? Why did you fight to not disclose the flight logs?”

Durbin, without naming Blackburn specifically, said it was the fault of a Republican lawmaker, not his.

“I can tell you I did not refuse. One of the senators here wished to produced those flight logs, and I asked her to put it in writing, and she never did,” he said.

That’s when Blackburn jumped in, and their verbal back-and-forth started.

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