Moulton: Trump 'got rid' of Bondi 12 days before Epstein deposition |
Moulton: Trump ‘got rid’ of Bondi 12 days before Epstein deposition
Rep. Seth Moulton (D-Mass.) suggested Thursday that President Trump fired Attorney General Pam Bondi in order to prevent her from testifying in the House probe related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
“She was about to be deposed in the Epstein case,” Moulton said in an interview with MS NOW’s Chris Jansing. “That’s why Trump got rid of her 12 days before that was supposed to happen.”
President Trump announced earlier Thursday on Truth Social that Bondi would be transitioning to a new job in the private sector. He thanked the former top prosecutor for doing a “tremendous job” in the role during her tenure.
Trump added that Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, also one of his former personal lawyers, would lead the Justice Department (DOJ) in the interim.
Bondi has sustained criticism from both Democrats and Republicans in Congress for her handling of the administration’s investigation into Epstein and the DOJ’s release of files tied to the disgraced financier — which include correspondence between Epstein and a slew of high-ranking political figures.
After the president signed the Epstein Files Transparency Act into law, the department released more than 3 million documents to the public with heavy redactions. While many lawmakers were able to view the unredacted files, critics have pressed for more transparency in the case.
The House Oversight Committee., including five Republicans, voted to subpoena Bondi in March to force her to testify on th Trump administration’s handling of the files.
Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.), the top democrat on the panel, said Thursday that she is still “legally obligated” to appear for her April 14 deposition date.
“Oversight Democrats have been leading serious investigations into Bondi and Secretary Kristi Noem,” he wrote in a statement on Thursday. “If they think we are moving on because they were fired, they are gravely mistaken.”
Moulton, responding to a question on whether Garcia could still expect Bondi to testify, said they “can probably try to hold her accountability to the law.” But, he added, “we all know this administration is not accountable to the law.”
“So, I expect Trump to do everything he can come up with to try to get her out of testifying because it could be embarrassing to her,” the Massachusetts Democrat said.
Moulton also slammed Blanche for his own involvement with the Epstein case. In July, the now-acting attorney general spearheaded talks with Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell, who is currently serving a 20-year prison sentence. She was later quietly moved to a minimum-security prison camp in Texas.
“He’s put in place someone who did a sweetheart deal for him with regards to Epstein,” Moulton told Jansing. “The guy who went down and interviewed Ghislaine Maxwell and got her out of a maximum security prison, got her all sorts of favors that criminals like her are not afforded, all because she’s willing to do favors for the president of the United States and help cover up his biggest political liability.”
Blanche, however, has pushed back on the notion that Trump ousted Bondi over the Epstein case.
“I have never heard President Trump say anything that the attorney general was — that anything that happened to her had anything to do with the Epstein files,” he told Fox News’s Jesse Watters late Thursday
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