Trump Tries Shutting Down Bondi Epstein Deposition
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0:49Democrats just stormed out of a sham briefing that Attorney General Pam Bondi decided that
0:57she was going to hold with 24 hours notice regarding the Epstein files.
1:04She apparently tried to hold this sham hearing and gave only 24 hours notice to
1:10try to get out of her deposition, which is supposed to take place on April
1:1614th. She's been subpoenaed by the House Oversight Committee and she's supposed to appear in
1:22public in the next few weeks.
1:23So she and the MAGA Republicans and Donald Trump tried to coordinate this sham.
1:29They said about 24 hours ago that she wanted to talk about the Epstein files.
1:35Democrats were very suspicious. What are you going to try to talk about in giving
1:39us only 24 hours notice?
1:40We have you under subpoena.
1:42Is this a way you're going to try to get out of the subpoena?
1:45And it became very clear to the Democrats as soon as this sham briefing started
1:50that that's what Bondi was going to do, it seemed that she and James Comber
1:55had scripted this whole thing with Donald Trump as they were going to be like,
1:59look, I guess she told you everything.
2:01Now, this also comes at the same time where a smoking gun document was just
2:07revealed on the House floor by Democratic Congress member Dan Goldman, who's been all over
2:14the Epstein file investigation by the Democrats.
2:19And he exposed this email that was previously redacted by Trump's DOJ.
2:25It's obvious this was serious obstruction of justice.
2:28This was criminal. It appeared what's been going down here, obviously.
2:33And what the DOJ redacted were notes that were sent by Donald Trump's lawyers back
2:40in 2009 to lawyers for victims and survivors and the lawyer for Jeffrey Epstein and
2:46Ghislaine Maxwell, because on October 14, 2009, based on this document that has just been
2:53unredacted, it's already been, you know, unredacted, but it was redacted in the documents that
2:59were produced publicly, but Congress member Goldman made this public.
3:03It's obvious that, uh, Donald Trump and Epstein's connections, uh, on these documents far more,
3:11uh, extensive, uh, than Donald Trump or the DOJ ever want to say, I'm going
3:15to go over what was in this document in just a moment, but let's just
3:19bring this all together. So sham briefing called by Pam Bondi, she says, house oversight
3:25committee show up. Now this follows, uh, the house oversight committee, uh, sending a letter
3:31to Bondi saying that she's subpoenaed to show up April 14th.
3:36Remember yesterday, I was like, that's kind of surprising.
3:38MAGA Republican James Comer was sending a strongly worded letter to Pam Bondi saying she
3:44needs to show up April 14th.
3:46That's odd because we know what Trump sycophant James Comer, but this was all part
3:50of their plan because then she said, all right, I'm going to do this briefing.
3:54I'm going to show up on the house and she was going to try to
3:56use this in order to not show up for her deposition.
4:00But Democrats saw that coming.
4:02Then Democrats just stormed out when they were like, seriously, this is all part of
4:06a coverup. We're not going to even being in this room makes you a co
4:10-conspirator to crimes because this is part of a coverup of a child sex trafficking
4:14ring. Democratic Congress member Robert Garcia posted the following moments ago, oversight Democrats just walked
4:23out of an outrageous fake hearing where Pam Bondi refused to say she would show
4:28up for her under oath deposition.
4:30We asked her multiple times and she refused to commit.
4:33We won't participate in a fake hearing that's not under oath and not transcribed.
4:39The American people deserve transparency and the truth.
4:42We are going to end this White House coverup to which the GOP members of
4:47the House Oversight Committee put out this message.
4:49This was clearly the Democrats plan all along to walk out of the briefing the
4:54DOJ offered to provide. Both Attorney General Bondi and Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche were
5:00answering substantive questions. And Attorney General Bondi stated that she would follow the law regarding
5:06her subpoenas. It's clear Democrats don't want answers or justice for survivors.
5:11They just don't want answers.
5:11want theatrics for their latest partisan stunt to which the House Democrats in the Oversight
5:17Committee said, actually, the attorney general would not commit to following the subpoena that Chairman
5:23James Comer sent her two days ago to testify in front of our committee.
5:27So no need to participate in a fake hearing that's not transcribed and is not
5:33under oath. Now, as I mentioned, moments earlier before the Democrats stormed out, Democratic Congress
5:40member Dan Goldman went to the House floor and he showed one of these documents
5:45that the Department of Justice has been covering up.
5:48DOJ redactions hid key details about Trump's Epstein ties, and Congress member Goldman just revealed
5:55what they were trying to cover up.
5:56In the unredacted document shown today by Goldman on the House floor, we can now
6:00read the full notes from a 2009 conversation involving Jeffrey Epstein's attorney and Donald Trump's
6:07attorney in an email that was sent in October 20, 2009 from Epstein to Ghislaine
6:13Maxwell. Here's what stands out.
6:15Trump's own attorney set the record straight on whether Epstein was ever expelled from Mar
6:20-a -Lago. Trump's own attorney admits, no, Epstein was not a member, may have been
6:27a guest, and was never asked to leave.
6:30Let me repeat that. Donald Trump's lawyer saying Epstein was never asked to leave Mar
6:35-a -Lago. Mar -a -Lago's manager burned Lemke also confirmed Epstein never asked to leave.
6:43The notes reference Trump being on Epstein's plane, contradicting public denials.
6:48It confirms that Trump had interactions connected to Epstein's world far beyond what he has
6:53repeatedly claimed. Trump, I may have been at Epstein's house with my wife.
6:58As Jesse Lee explains, this is incredible.
7:01Trump administration's redacted, Trump regime redacted his own lawyer debunking two repeated lies that Trump
7:09has told his friendship with Epstein, that told about his friendship with Epstein.
7:14I'm sure John Roberts, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, can explain how this was
7:18some official action, but these redactions were a deliberate and illegal cover -up.
7:24This is the document that was made available publicly.
7:27You can see all of the redactions on the DOJ website.
7:31Goldman just exposed it moments ago.
7:33Now, going back to this sham hearing that Bondi wanted to contrive with Donald Trump
7:39and MAGA Republicans, one of the things that went down is when you had Democratic
7:44Congresswoman Summer Lee asking questions and saying, you know, are you going to show up,
7:51Bondi, to your deposition, your subpoenaed?
7:54We don't want this. We want you to show up under oath, not a sham
7:58hearing. Then MAGA Republican chair of the House Oversight Committee, James Comer, was like, stop
8:04bitching. He said, you need to.
8:06Why are you bitching? He said.
8:08That's the words of Comer at this sham hearing.
8:11And she put him on blast.
8:12Watch what went down. To our lawful subpoena in a deposition.
8:18So instead, I asked Chairman Comer if he would compel her to come to our
8:22deposition. If she did not come, would he force her to, or if he would
8:26move for contempt hearings as he did for other people who did not respond to
8:30our subpoena. Instead of answering, as an adult, he said that I was bitching, which
8:35is, again, something that would not be allowed if we were operating under the rules
8:40of this committee. Because engaging in personalities is actually something that we are not able
8:44to do. If C -SPAN and the public were there, I'd imagine that he would
8:47not act that way. Neither here nor there, we expected A .G.
8:51Bondi to be adversarial. We expected her to be confrontational.
8:55And we expected her to not offer us much information.
8:58But that's why I introduced impeachment articles, because she has already been obstructing justice.
9:03She has already weaponized the DOJ.
9:06She has already ended investigations into Trump and his allies.
9:10She has used this role, essentially, as one to help the president.
9:15She does not answer to the president.
9:16The DOJ does not have the right or the privilege of withholding information from an
9:23active investigation, ignoring the laws of our land, which the Epstein Transparency Act is, with
9:29our subpoena from last July is.
9:32And the oversight Dems will continue to press for accountability.
9:35We'll continue to press for justice for survivors, while also keeping them centered in this.
9:40So at the end of the day, we are still here seeking answers for women,
9:45for girls, and for the American public who has demanded justice, who have demanded answers
9:50to this. And whether or not they will pretend that the documents that they've given
9:54us is enough, we already know that they have not complied.
9:58And we are asking other people to make sure that we do not let them
10:01off the hook right now.
10:02So we look forward to her on the record deposition with our committee in response
10:07to our lawful subpoena. Now, Democratic Congresswoman Stansbury talked about how shocked they were at
10:13Bondi's behavior and what Blanche was doing at this sham hearing they tried to set
10:17up with less than 24 hours notice.
10:19Play this clip. And Todd Blanche himself said today that basically they've released everything they're
10:24going to release. Well, that is not compliance with the law.
10:28In addition to that, I think what we were all shocked by today is that
10:31Pam Bondi was asked multiple times by my colleagues if she would comply with the
10:36subpoena for her own deposition under oath.
10:39and she refused to answer yes.
10:41So I think we can say very squarely that the cover -up continues.
10:45Stansberry talked about walking out of the briefing room as well.
10:49Here's what she said. Yeah, well, I just walked out of the briefing room, and
10:53what is absolutely clear is that Pam Bondi has no intention of complying with the
10:58law and the subpoena that we've issued for her to be deposed under oath in
11:03front of the committee. In fact, what appears to have happened is that she and
11:06Todd Blanche volunteered to come brief the committee, and so we walked in today ready
11:11to hear information that they would provide to us about what's going on with the
11:15Epstein File Transparency Act, and basically they said, we've released what we're going to release,
11:20and now you can ask me questions, and there was no oath.
11:24There were no cameras. The American public were locked out of the room, and it
11:29was clear that they were not prepared to answer questions about compliance with the law.
11:34And so ultimately, after Chairman Comer insulted Summer Lee, who is the lead in many
11:41ways on the subpoena, both of Pam Bondi and the subpoena of the Epstein files,
11:45and basically was extraordinarily disrespectful towards her, the Democrats walked out of the room because
11:52we're not going to play their games.
11:54So just to be a Democratic Congress member Robert Garcia, who chairs the House Oversight
11:58Committee, had this to say.
12:00Just as a review, because I think it's very important, this fake hearing, we found
12:05out about it yesterday with no time to prepare, with no format given to us.
12:11We had no idea what even format was going to be until just an hour
12:15or two before the actual, this kind of fake hearing that was set up.
12:18And it was clear from the minute it started that the Attorney General is trying
12:22to evade and not attend the mandated subpoena that is put in place.
12:27We asked her that question.
12:28Multiple members asked her the question.
12:30She would not respond. She said she'll continue to follow the law.
12:34That is not a response.
12:35She has a subpoena in place by Chairman Comer.
12:38If there's any questions, I'll take those now.
12:39Congress Member Frost said the following.
12:42The Attorney General, I'll have Congressman Frost come in.
12:44He specifically also asked her if she would show up to her deposition.
12:47And she was very clear if you want to comment on that.
12:49Look, I mean, to me, it's very clear that the purpose of this entire fake
12:52hearing, this fake deposition, is the Attorney General trying to weasel herself out of sitting
12:58in front of us under oath, under a bipartisan subpoena that we gave her committee.
13:03We asked her multiple times, are you going to come and speak with us under
13:06oath? She would not say yes.
13:09Filibuster, filibuster, filibuster would not say yes.
13:11And so why do we, and then our Republican colleagues say, is this not enough?
13:15Why don't you want to speak to her now?
13:16We want her under oath because we do not trust her.
13:19Why don't we trust her?
13:20Because she's a liar. Look at how that Judiciary Committee hearing went.
13:26She was spying on members of Congress when they were in the DOJ looking at
13:30the documents unredacted. Look at what she's done as far as not putting documents relating
13:36to Donald Trump on the website, not releasing them, and only doing it when the
13:41public noticed and said something about it.
13:43We want her under oath because we don't trust her.
13:46We want her under oath because she has shown that she is involved in a
13:50cover -up. My Republican colleagues under the last administration would not stand for this with
13:55Merrick Garland being in front of them, not being under oath.
13:58They wouldn't allow that to happen for a second.
14:00So we see this for what it is.
14:01This is not a briefing.
14:02A briefing is when we sit down and we're getting information from the person giving
14:07the briefing. That didn't happen here.
14:08She sat down. They started the clock like a hearing.
14:11It's a hearing. It's a fake deposition where no one can see what's going on,
14:16where there's zero transcription, where it's not on C -SPAN or anything, and where no
14:20one is under oath, and they are allowed to freely lie to members of Congress.
14:25More from Democratic Congress member Garcia here.
14:28Play this clip. What's important right now for us is that we hold Pam Bondi
14:33accountable for the subpoena. She's about to legally have to show up.
14:37That's number one. Everything after that, whether it's contempt, whether it's anything else, all follows.
14:42She's got to show up for her deposition.
14:43That's all. Thanks, everybody. Also, Pablo Monriquez, who leads our Washington, D .C.
14:49Bureau at the Midas Touch Network, caught up with AOC in the halls of Congress.
14:53And here's what she had to say as well about Donald Trump being compromised by
14:59the Epstein files. Let's play this clip.
15:01And on Iran, do you feel that Trump being compromised as part of the Epstein
15:05files is putting our troops at risk abroad?
15:07A lot of our adversaries are using the Epstein files as sort of to create
15:11the narrative around the war.
15:12Yeah, you know, I think there was a story recently, if I'm not mistaken, about
15:17how they believe that the files themselves were compromised by a foreign actor.
15:22And anytime you have compromising information that is in the hands of a foreign actor,
15:29you have the possibility of manipulation, extortion of public officials.
15:34And that is extremely dangerous.
15:37And the whole point of having that is to force public officials to make decisions
15:43that are not always in the best interest of the United States so that they
15:49can kind of escape blackmail.
15:51You know, we need to know more about the details of the situation.
15:54But ultimately, we have seen U .S.
15:59service members lose their lives in addition to many innocent Iranians.
16:08And we don't know, and there hasn't been justification as to why.
16:15Do you think the Epstein files could make Trump a target for blackmail then?
16:19We, you know, we don't know what's been compromised and what hasn't.
16:23Pam Bondi needs to release the other three million files.
16:27We have to remember that Attorney General Bondi is still illegally withholding it.
16:33She's in violation of the law.
16:35And from what we, you know, from what folks have seen in the Epstein files,
16:38Trump is absolutely implicated. And we, and that's just from what's been mentioned, that doesn't
16:44even include what's been hidden.
16:46And so if there's a foreign actor out there that has more access to the
16:52Epstein files than the United States Congress, then we do not know who is compromised,
16:58the extent to which they are compromised, and the extent to which blackmail could play
17:02a role. But I suspect the odds of that could be quite high.
17:06And here's what Democratic Congress member Subramaniam had to say to us.
17:10Play this clip. So, Congressman, do you think that Trump being in the Epstein files
17:16is compromising our troops? Because, you know, obviously our adversaries are using that to sort
17:20of cast a narrative about why we're in Iran.
17:24Yeah, I mean, it's embarrassing for our country, and they're using it against us.
17:28The fact that he's been covering this up and been even named himself at different
17:34times in the files. So it's going to continue to be a problem for us.
17:38Thank you, Congressman. Appreciate it.
17:39And more from Democratic Congress member Frost right here.
17:42Play this clip. So, Congressman, are you concerned that Trump being compromised by the Epstein
17:46files is having a negative impact on our troops' safety abroad?
17:51Our adversaries have been using, obviously, the Epstein files as a means of that.
17:54A hundred percent, and I think, I'm not sure it's the whole reason, but I
17:56definitely think part of the reason we're even in Iran has to do with the
17:59fact that he's looking for every single thing he can do to shift the weight
18:03of tension from the fact that he's not only is he in the Epstein files,
18:07but he's in it a lot.
18:09And he had a very close relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, and he's engaged in one
18:13of the greatest cover -ups we've ever seen from a U .S.
18:15president. So that's why we successfully subpoenaed Pam Bondi, and that's why we're going to
18:19continue to investigate this. Thank you so much, Congressman.
18:22This was an explosive moment, indeed, in the House.
18:26Bondi calls a sham hearing, which she's trying to do in lieu of having to
18:31show up under oath. She and Trump and, obviously, the MAGA chair of the House
18:36Oversight Committee, James Comer, were going to be like, well, she's already told you everything,
18:40so why does she need to testify under oath?
18:42Democrats caught it in real time, called her out for it.
18:46When it was obvious they were doing a sham hearing, Democrats walked, Republicans tipped their
18:51hands. You heard it all here, and this follows what we just saw on the
18:55House floor, where Democratic Congressmember Goldman pulls out the email that no one's seen before,
19:01and it's Trump's own lawyer saying Epstein was never kicked out, saying Epstein was never
19:06kicked out in Mar -a -Lago.
19:07He wasn't even a member.
19:08He was a guest. And remember what I've always been saying.
19:11I've always been saying, yeah, because Epstein had Mar -a -Lago brought to his house.
19:16He never had to go to Mar -a -Lago.
19:18The spa was brought to Epstein's place.
19:21Epstein lived like a mile and a half away, and the spa went there.
19:25That was one of the big things, and Mar -a -Lago was one of the
19:27locations where Epstein engaged in the child sex trafficking because he recruited from there, like
19:32Virginia Giuffre when she was an underage child.
19:34Folks, this cover -up is getting deeper.
19:37Obviously, one of the reasons that Donald Trump is in a never -ending war now
19:41with Iran, and by the way, we're going to do more reports there because Iran
19:45has now struck a main Qatari energy facility.
19:49As it said, it was going to do a main energy facility in Riyadh as
19:53well. As it said, they were going to do.
19:55This thing's escalating, and its beginning was caused by the fact that Donald Trump was
20:00covering up the Epstein files.
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