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The Justice Department says Pam Bondi will not appear for a House Oversight deposition on the Epstein files because the subpoena was issued when she was attorney general and she no longer holds that post.
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The Justice Department says Pam Bondi will not appear for a House Oversight deposition on the Epstein files because the subpoena was issued when she was attorney general and she no longer holds that post.
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The Justice Department says Pam Bondi will not appear for a House Oversight deposition on the Epstein files because the subpoena was issued when she was attorney general and she no longer holds that post.
The House fight over Pam Bondi’s refusal to testify has become more than a procedural spat. It is now another example of Trump-world treating oversight like an inconvenience and then acting shocked when the dodge becomes the story. The longer the no-show stretches, the more the administration looks like it is hiding behind process instead of answering basic questions.
Pam Bondi will not appear for her scheduled House deposition on the Epstein investigation, with the Justice Department arguing the subpoena no longer applies because she is no longer attorney general. The move intensifies the political blowback around Trump’s handling of the Epstein files and gives critics a cleaner line of attack: the administration is trying to dodge sworn testimony.
House Oversight Democrats say Pam Bondi will not appear for a scheduled April 14 deposition on the Epstein files after Justice Department officials argued she was subpoenaed in her role as attorney general. The fight now centers on whether the committee can still enforce that subpoena after she left office.
The Justice Department is telling House investigators that Pam Bondi does not need to sit for her scheduled April 14 deposition in the Epstein probe because she is no longer attorney general. That maneuver may be procedurally convenient, but it also makes Trump’s DOJ look like it is trying to talk its way out of oversight after creating the problem in the first place.
Pam Bondi’s planned House deposition on the Epstein files is off, and the Justice Department’s explanation is basically a legal shrug. Trump’s decision to fire her did not make the oversight problem disappear; it just made the whole episode look more like damage control than accountability.
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