The House Judiciary Committee held a hearing on Wednesday entitled Oversight of the U.S. Department of Justice, at which Bondi lashed out at Democratic members and repeatedly bristled when members reclaimed their time. Bondi had a binder full of prepared jabs to attack members whose questions angered her, and advisers assisting her in the effort. Bondi's prep material was even revealed to include tracking information on what searches Democrats performed during onsite reviews of unredacted Epstein documents at the Department of Justice.
The justice department's partial release of the Epstein files on Friday signaled how the agency is using a variety of tactics to try to bury and obfuscate Donald Trump's connection to Jeffrey Epstein. As the department raced towards a legally mandated Friday deadline to release its files, little emerged about what it planned to release. There never really seemed to be a doubt that the department would release the files late on Friday afternoon,
