Pam Bondi Ducks Top Senate Democrat’s Question on Her Contradicting Epstein Client List Claims

Attorney General Pam Bondi appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday, and Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL), the ranking member on the committee, wasted no time in asking her about the Epstein files.

Durbin kicked off his questioning by saying he wanted ask “about items in a letter I sent you in July that you have not answered.”

“In February, you made a public claim that the Epstein client list was, quote, ‘sitting on my desk right now for review,’ end of quote. You then produced already public information and no client list at a major media event hosted at the White House. Attorney General Bondi, why did you publicly claim to have the Epstein client list waiting for your review and produce nothing relevant to that claim?” Durbin asked.

“Senator Durbin, if you listen 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 yet reviewed it, and if you see our memo on Epstein, you will see—excuse me, our memo on Epstein clearly points out that there was no client list, our July 6 memo,” Bondi replied, more or less repeating the facts in the question. She added:

You also didn’t let me respond to the HIDTA question. The budget transfers $196 million for High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas to the Office of Justice Programs, OJP. The Justice Department will continue to administer those grants under OJP in 2026.

Durbin didn’t let Bondi change topics, following up with, “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. Nothing came of that review until July, when DOJ and FBI released an unsigned memo stating, quote, ‘there’s no incriminating client list.’ Why was the July 7th memo unsigned?”

“The July 7th memo came from the FBI and the Department of Justice. Director Patel answered those questions very clearly. And you know, Senator Durbin, I find it very interesting that you refused repeated Republican requests to release the Epstein flight logs in 2023 and 2024. You fought that. Did you take money from Reid Hoffman, campaign donations, who was a huge Epstein friend?” Bondi shot back, dodging the question and attacking Durbin.

Watch the clip above via CNN.