Bondi Says She Was Misled On Epstein Documents
Attorney General Pam Bondi revealed on Fox News’ Mark Levin show that she had been misled into believing she had all the files related to investigations into Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced financier and convicted sex offender.
“I kept saying, there has to be more. There has to be more,” Bondi stated. “I was assured that’s it.”
Epstein had connections with high-profile individuals, including royalty and other influential elites. In 2019, while awaiting trial for sex trafficking charges, he died by suicide.
According to a whistleblower, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York is “sitting on thousands of pages of documents” that were never provided to Bondi. This came after Bondi had already released 100 pages of flight logs and Epstein’s contact lists. She is now seeking additional details from the FBI.
Bondi pledged that Americans will eventually have access to “the full Epstein files.”
Over the weekend, Bondi vowed to obtain “every document” related to the late Epstein, following recent reports suggesting an FBI field office had withheld “thousands” of documents.
In a letter addressed to FBI Director Kash Patel, Bondi disclosed that sources informed her that agents from the New York field office were keeping back “thousands” of Epstein-related records. This was despite her prior request for all materials related to Epstein to be turned over for public release.
In her letter, Bondi did not place blame on Patel, who took over as FBI Director on February 21, acknowledging that her request for the documents was made before his tenure began.
“Before you came into office, I requested the full and complete files related to Jeffrey Epstein. In response to this request, I received approximately 200 pages of documents, which consisted primarily of flight logs, Epstein’s list of contacts, and a list of victims’ names and phone numbers,” she wrote.
“Despite my repeated requests, the FBI never disclosed the existence of these files. When you and I spoke yesterday, you were just as surprised as I was to learn this new information,” Bondi noted, giving Patel a firm deadline of last Friday to retrieve the requested records and deliver them to her office.
It remains unclear whether the deadline was met, but during a weekend appearance on Fox News with host Mark Levin, Bondi was questioned about the situation and her plans moving forward.
“I think the American people are very curious about who’s on this list or these lists. You’ve been doggedly trying to get all the information. And now we learn, thanks to you, that you have been stonewalled by people in New York. You want to explain that?” Levin asked.
“So, as you know, we released about 120 pages of documents. And I started asking for these documents right when I came into office, before Kash Patel was in there. So, I ended up getting about 120 pages,” Bondi explained. “We carefully redacted them, of course, to ensure that the 254 young girls, women who were victims of sex crimes and sex trafficking, had their personal information removed for their protection.
“So I’m going through it and I kept saying, ‘There has to be more, there has to be more.’ I am assured that is it. Kash asked the same questions, assured there is no more,” Bondi, who previously served as Florida’s attorney general, continued. “I found out this week that — a source told me New York, SDNY, they are sitting on thousands of pages of documents regarding Epstein, thousands. Thousands.
“And of course, you’ve seen the very strong letter. We will get everything. We will have it in our possession. We will redact it, of course, to protect grand jury information and confidential witnesses, but the American people have a right to know. And Donald Trump is the most transparent president in our nation’s history. So not only will America get the full Epstein files, they will get JFK, they’ll get Martin Luther King,” Bondi said, referring to an executive order from the president to release all information related to those cases publicly.
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.), who leads a bipartisan House panel responsible for reviewing classified documents in high-profile cases—including the Epstein files—expressed frustration over Bondi’s Thursday release on social media.
“THIS IS NOT WHAT WE OR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ASKED FOR and a complete disappointment,” Luna posted on X. “GET US THE INFORMATION WE ASKED FOR!”
Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-Fla.) commented on the backlash, stating the situation created a tough day for the administration.
“It was not a good day for the administration. If you look at the traffic online over the Epstein release, I have never seen the left and the right come together in a moment on the debacle of what the Epstein files contained,” Moskowitz remarked on CNN’s “News Night.”