Democrats on the House Oversight Committee on Wednesday walked out of a closed-door briefing with Attorney General Pam Bondi and her deputy, Todd Blanche, on the Justice Department’s handling of the Epstein files. According to Democrats, Bondi repeatedly declined to say whether she would comply with a subpoena requiring her to appear for a sworn deposition on April 14. The briefing came one day after Oversight Committee Chair James Comer subpoenaed Bondi to testify before the committee. After the briefing, Bondi was asked by reporters if she would comply with the subpoena, to which she simply replied, “I will follow the law.” Democratic Congressmember Summer Lee later asked Comer if he would compel Bondi to attend the April deposition and hold her in contempt if she refuses. Comer told Lee that she was “bitching.” This is Congressmember Summer Lee, who has introduced articles of impeachment against Bondi.
Rep. Summer Lee: “AG Bondi has been obstructing justice. She has perjured herself multiple times. And she has been withholding critical documents that would inform this investigation into a pedophile, into corruption and possible — possibly quite deeper, because we do not know who was all involved. Today, what their attempt was, was to push this under the rug, do something off the record that they would not have to be accountable for.”
