Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) mentioned she was “not confident” but that Legal professional Common Pam Bondi would launch the consumer checklist of disgraced financier and convicted intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein.
“I’m not confident on the Epstein client list because I haven’t had the briefing yet from the Department of Justice,” Luna mentioned throughout her Monday evening look on One America Information’s “The Matt Gaetz Show.”
“I’ll know more tomorrow on that, but based on what I’m hearing from the attorney general, she keeps saying that she is going to release something, so I am going to take her at her word for that,” the Florida Republican advised former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.).
Over the weekend, Bondi mentioned on Fox Information she was misled on the Epstein paperwork whereas additionally defending the ridiculed paperwork dump on Thursday.
“I kept saying, there has to be more. There has to be more,” Bondi mentioned. “I was assured that’s it.”
Luna, who heads the bipartisan Home panel that opinions categorised paperwork in high-profile instances, mentioned the group of lawmakers has been pushing for “maximum transparency.”
“We have asked for the full list, we have asked for all of the documentation, we are pushing for maximum transparency, but again, we do not hold the classification authority,” Luna mentioned. “That is again up to the attorney general.”
The Justice Division (DOJ) launched a tranche of paperwork Thursday to a bunch of conservative influencers, most of which had been already publicly accessible. Bondi later mentioned there are much more to be launched to the general public.
Luna shared her disappointment on social media over the DOJ’s doc dump on Thursday, the “phase one” that was packaged and given to MAGA-aligned influencers in white binders.
“THIS IS NOT WHAT WE OR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ASKED FOR and a complete disappointment,” Luna wrote on X. “GET US THE INFORMATION WE ASKED FOR!”
Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-Fla.) characterised the rollout of the paperwork as a foul day for the White Home.
Epstein, who mingled with royalty, celebrities and different highly effective folks, died in 2019 by obvious suicide earlier than his trial on intercourse trafficking costs.
Bondi mentioned Saturday she discovered from a “whistleblower” that the U.S. District Courtroom for the Southern District of New York is “sitting on thousands of pages of documents” that had but to have been given to the DOJ.
“We will get everything,” she advised Fox Information host Mark Levin. “We will have it in our possession. We will redact it, of course, to protect grand jury information and confidential witnesses, but American people have a right to know.”
