AG Pam Bondi says FBI delivered 'truckload' of Epstein files after she put out hard deadline
Epstein files will be dealt with 'as fast as we can,' Bondi said
AG Pam Bondi said the FBI handed over a "truckload" of Epstein files after she gave the agency until 8 a.m. Friday morning to turn them over. She also praised FBI boss Kash Patel.
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“… Speaking to Fox News host Sean Hannity on Tuesday night, Bondi confirmed that a "truckload" of Epstein files were delivered by the FBI after she gave the agency until 8 a.m. on Friday morning to deliver them.
"I gave [the FBI] a deadline of Friday at 8 a.m. to get us everything," Bondi explained. "
And a source had told me where the documents were being kept, Southern District of New York, shock. So we got them all by Friday at 8 a.m."
"Thousands of pages of documents. I have the FBI going through them...and
Director Patel is going to get us a detailed report as to why the FBI withheld all of those documents," she continued.
… Bondi went on to describe the documents as being "a truckload of evidence," and emphasized that a detailed report is incoming.
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And, you know, we're going to go through it, go through it as fast as we can, but go through it very cautiously to protect all the victims of Epstein," she said.
The attorney general also accused the
Biden administration of "sitting" on the documents.
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No one did anything with them. And why were they sitting in the Southern District of New York? I want a full report on that," Bondi said.
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You know, sadly, these people don't believe in transparency. But I think more unfortunately, I think a lot of them don't believe in honesty." …”
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Smells like buying time/delay the Epstein evidence release on the one hand and trying to shift the narrative to attacking SDNY instead OTOH.
In any event, it is not shocking that evidence from the SDNY prosecution of Epstein (and later Maxwell) would be held by SDNY. Bondi didn’t need a “source” to tell her that. And the allegation that “no one did anything with them” is bizarre considering that SDNY obtained an indictment of Epstein using evidence that had not previously been obtained after a Republican prosecutor in Florida gave Epstein a sweethearts deal that was eventually exposed by the Miami Herald.