Attorney General Pam Bondi has been subpoenaed by the House Oversight Committee to testify over the Jeffrey Epstein files.
Hardline conservative Republicans Tim Burchett, Lauren Boebert, Michael Cloud, Nancy Mace and Scott Perry, voted with Democrats to compel Bondi to appear before the House.
The Republican-majority Oversight Committee is investigating the Epstein files and the Justice Department’s handling of the case.
Bondi is the latest big name to be snared by the committee which last week compelled Bill and Hillary Clinton to testify over the relationship with the pedophile and his co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell.
The Attorney General has faced fury from across the political spectrum over her botched release of the Epstein files, including leaving victims names unredacted while keeping secret the names of alleged abusers.
Bondi clashed with representatives over the files at a tense hearing of the House Judiciary Committee last month, in which she pointed to the Dow soaring over 50,000 points in response to questions about the administration’s performance.
Bondi promised to release the files shortly after taking up leadership of the DOJ but the first tranche of documents she disclosed were already widely circulated.
Pressure ratcheted on Donald Trump to release the full files last year, eventually culminating in the Epstein Transparency Act, a bipartisan bill which forced the Justice Department to release the remaining files.
Attorney General Pam Bondi testifies before a House Judiciary Committee hearing on oversight of the Justice Department, on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, February 11
More than 3 million Epstein related documents were finally released at the end of January, including new mentions of Trump, as well as Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick.
Oversight chair James Comer announced on Tuesday that Lutnick had agreed to testify after a new photo showed him with Epstein on his infamous private island.
Trump said last week that Lutnick was a ‘very innocent guy.’
Lutnick was subpoenaed after Rep. Mace threatened to force a subpoena vote against him.
Ahead of Bondi’s subpoena, Mace wrote on X: ‘AG Bondi claims the DOJ has released all of the Epstein files. The record is clear: they have not.’
She called the Epstein case ‘one of the greatest cover-ups in American history’ and said that despite the DOJ’s latest release ‘we still don’t have the full truth.’
‘Videos are missing. Audio is missing. Logs are missing. There are millions more documents out there,’ Mace said.
Robert Garcia of California, the Democrat ranking member on the committee, said the public has ‘significant questions’ about the release of the Epstein files.
‘The attorney general has gone to speak, obviously, to other committees,’ he said.
‘I think it’s important that she is in front of our committee. She can directly answer questions about the release of the files, about transparency, about ensuring that victims and survivors are protected.’
