Democrats lawmakers are pressuring Attorney General Pam Bondi to release Epstein documents they insanely claim may reference President Donald Trump due to former first buddy Elon Musk’s deleted tweet.
Leading the charge are Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland and Rep. Dan Goldman of New York, both senior Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee.
On Tuesday, they issued a formal letter to the Justice Department urging the release of material allegedly linking Trump to the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
The letter accused the department of withholding critical files and raised suspicions of political interference.
The Justice Department recently released a memo concluding that Epstein died by suicide and that no so-called “client list” was used to blackmail public figures.
Why is Pam Bondi not giving a press conference and letting the press secretary, take all the fire?
— Catturd ™ (@catturd2) July 7, 2025
But that has done little to satisfy Democrats, who are now pointing fingers at Bondi for what they describe as selective transparency.
“In February 2025, you came under intense public criticism after releasing the ‘first phase’ of roughly 200 pages of the Epstein files that consisted largely of information that was already public,” the lawmakers wrote.
The letter alleged that Bondi directed an unusual number of FBI agents to comb through the Epstein case files, despite claims that the majority of materials had already been disclosed.
During his confirmation hearing, FBI Director Kash Patel pledged to disclose the full extent of the Epstein materials to ensure the public “knows the full weight of what happened.”
While the DOJ faced criticism earlier this year for only releasing documents already in the public domain, it now claims that no additional disclosures are warranted.
Democrats questioned whether the Trump White House had intervened to block the release of evidence that might cast the president in a negative light.
“This raises the question of whether the White House has moved to prevent the declassification and public release of the full Epstein files because they implicate President Trump,” Raskin and Goldman wrote.
“And whether these massive redaction efforts and the withholding of the files were intended to shield your boss from embarrassing revelations.”
The letter referenced a since-deleted post by Elon Musk, in which he allegedly claimed Trump was named in the Epstein materials.
Lawmakers also pressed Bondi to make public Special Counsel Jack Smith’s classified report and alleged that the Justice Department was functioning more like “Trump’s personal law firm.”
Democratic figures weren’t the only ones voicing concerns. Florida Republican Rep. Anna Paulina Luna also demanded more transparency.
“The American people deserve to know truth ref. Epstein, regardless of who it impacts,” Luna posted on X.
Back in March, Bondi told Fox News that several key documents had been withheld from the FBI.
She suggested that the files would eventually be made public after appropriate redactions were made.
“You’re looking at these documents going, ‘These aren’t all the Epstein files.’ There were flight logs. There were names, victims’ names, and we’re going ‘Where’s the rest of the stuff?’ That’s what the FBI had turned over to us,” Bondi said.
“So a source said ‘Whoa, all this evidence is sitting in the Southern District of New York.’ So based on that, I gave them the deadline, Friday at 8, a truckload of evidence arrived.”
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt reiterated on Monday that some materials were too graphic for public viewing.
She said the DOJ had conducted an “exhaustive review” and declined to publish materials containing illicit images, stating, “it was incredibly graphic and it contained child p****graphy, which is not something that’s appropriate for public consumption.”
The American people deserve to know truth ref. Epstein, regardless of who it impacts.
There is plenty of evidence and info not pertaining to CSAM/victims that DOJ leadership can authorize the @FBIDirectorKash and @FBIDDBongino to release. The @FBI cannot release anything without…
— Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (@RepLuna) July 8, 2025
But Luna disputed that claim, asserting that plenty of non-graphic information was also being withheld unnecessarily.
“There is plenty of evidence and info not pertaining to CSAM/victims that DOJ leadership can authorize the @FBIDirectorKash and @FBIDDBongino to release,” Luna wrote.
“The @FBI cannot release anything without @TheJusticeDept authorization,” she continued. “The Taskforce and all of its members will be asking for that on behalf of the American people.”
“The American people should be free to come to their own conclusions. The Truth will always come out one way or another,” she concluded.
Meanwhile, public backlash continues to mount. Commentators like Megyn Kelly are calling Bondi’s leadership into question.
“What kind of an attorney general would pretend she’s giving new information to some of the president’s most loyal advocates in the press?” Kelly asked.
“So either Pam Bondi knew she was about to embarrass some of his most loyal surrogates out there, and did that willingly, or she didn’t take the time to make sure what was in those binders.”
“She’s either lazy and incompetent or she willingly humiliated some of the president’s most loyal supporters. Neither one of those is good,” Kelly continued.
“And that’s why, I’m sorry, but I’m going to predict her days are numbered as a member of the Trump administration.”
I dislike Raskin and Goldman and think they are low life vermin and it pains me to agree with scum like them on anything but they are right on this. Release all of the Epstein evidence and while you are at it release the Abedin computer records, Biden and Obama’s hidden records, Hunter’s laptop records, Hillary’s 33,000 emails, the Supreme Court leakers files and the Schiff leaking investigation files. Our government is no longer responsible to the people. They exist with the consent of the governed(We the People).