BREAKING: EXPLOSIVE Epstein update SURGES into news

So if you're like me, there was something a little off about Pam Bondi's firing, because this is somebody who did all of Trump's bidding, especially as it relates to Epstein, and yet somehow the bad press that she got for protecting Trump resulted in Trump firing her. And then we got some news today that suddenly put the whole thing into perspective.

Now the Epstein files, you'd agree not handled well? And I don't, first of all, I have never heard President Trump say that the Attorney General was, that anything that happened to her had anything to do with the Epstein files. And so look, the Epstein files has been a saga that's lasted for the entire, for the past year. And what happened when the President signed the Transparency Act is the Department of

Justice has now released all the files with respect to the Epstein saga and the Attorney General Bondi and I appeared in front of Congress voluntarily a couple weeks ago to answer any questions they had. We have made every single congressman, senator available to come and see any document redacted, unredacted that they want. And so I think that to the extent that the Epstein files was a part of the past year of this Justice Department, it should not be a part of anything going forward.

That right there is the entire ballgame. Todd Blanch has announced that, with his assent to acting Attorney General, the slate is officially clear and any worries about the DOJ suppressing the Epstein files miraculously vanishes alongside Pam Bondi. In other words, pay no attention to the man behind the curtain. Nothing to see here anymore.

I mean, I'm sorry, but this is the most transparent bait and switch I have ever seen. This administration really, truly believed that all it had to do was fire Pam Bondi and then the heat from the Epstein saga would just disappear alongside her. As if Pam Bondi was acting all on her own, just an independent attorney general, not at all in the tank for her boss. That's right, the whole scandal disappears

now that Bondi is gone. I guess justice has been done. In reality, despite Todd Blanche's absurd claim, no, the DOJ has not released all of the files with regard to the Epstein saga. This whole thing is not put to bed. There are still 3 million files out of 6 million files that have

not yet been released. I don't know how you, as the now acting Attorney General, can look at the plain text of the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which mandates the release of all files, and think that somehow you are in compliance with that law. And so it becomes painfully clear what the point of this whole exercise was. It was to saddle Bondi with all of the Epstein baggage and play make-believe that with her departure goes the rest of the Epstein drama.

They couldn't be more wrong. Because now, we've just gotten the latest piece of evidence that this White House continues to engage in a cover-up. And it doesn't just go up to Pam Bondi or the Attorney General, it goes all the way up to the President. So he can put whatever stooge he wants in that position, but that's not going to mask the fact that he's the one calling the shots, and everybody knows it.

That is the scandal here. The President of the United States is listed 38,000 fucking times in the files, and that he has used law enforcement agencies as his personal assistants to cover up his involvement with a pedophile. And the sad part for Trump is that it's clearly not working. If Trump thought that he could just shield Bondi from having to testify in a sworn deposition

about what she knows on April 14th just by firing her, he is in for a rude awakening. I asked ranking member of the Oversight Committee Robert Garcia just yesterday whether her subpoena was still valid. Here's what he had to say. The question remains, though, that given the fact that she's out of her position now, will the subpoena compelling her to come testify for a closed door deposition with the House

Oversight Committee still apply for April 14th?

It does apply. First, the subpoena we put in place does not have any mention of whether the fact, you know, she's AG or not, and the subpoena is for Pam Bondi. And so whether she is in the position or not, she legally is required to appear before the oversight committee on April the 14th, which is a date that Comer set for her to come.

We've checked this all already out today with all the lawyers and the attorneys. And so she now has to come testify. She can come and do the right thing and finally be honest about actually what happened, why the cover up, why 50 percent of the files have not been released. And look, she no longer has to work for Donald Trump.

So the Oversight Republicans released a statement saying, quote, since Pam Bondi is no longer attorney general, Chairman Comer will speak with Republican members and the Department of Justice about the status of the deposition subpoena and confer on next steps. Does that sound to you like, like James Comer and oversight Republicans are looking for an out?

Well, what it didn't sound like to me was saying that she didn't have to come testify. I think that James Comer knows that the only way to reverse that subpoena is to come in front of the committee again and force a vote for us to actually remove the subpoena. And I think there's enough Republicans there that likely will keep their courage like they did last time and actually ensure the subpoena actually moves forward.

And so Comer cannot somehow retract the subpoena on his own or even with him and Republicans because he was voted by the entire committee and done in a way that was bipartisan. And so she must come in to testify unless he tries to pull some type of major vote in the committee.

And I'm not sure that all Republicans would go along with that.

And when he said that Republicans on the committee were still demanding her appearance, he wasn't lying. Here's Nancy Mace today.

A committee spokesperson, Congresswoman, had told CNN just last night that the chairman, the plan after the news, was that the chairman was going to speak with members about the status of the deposition subpoena and confer on next steps.

Have you talked to the chairman yet about those next steps?

I have not yet, but I made my point very clear yesterday. When I issued the subpoena that was voted on by the oversight committee a number of weeks ago we did it by name and not by the title of the attorney general so she's still compelled and required by law to come before the oversight committee and at this juncture i'm not backing away from that are backing down from that

i do believe the handling of the epstein files uh... was done in a very poor manner uh... by her and her office and there are still questions that she has answers to that are very serious and has information I believe that will be important to the committee so I'm moving forward if I could still have the majority of support from the committee.

It won't be just me, I have to have the support of my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to move forward if the chairman wants to try to quash it.

In other words, despite Trump's little sleight of hand tricks, he's not only out his attorney general who is perfectly content to discard every ounce of integrity and blind deference to him, but he's also not going to be able to avoid her sworn deposition. And if she does decide not to appear, well, that could be pretty problematic. In terms of accountability for Pam Bondi, if indeed she does refuse to comply with this lawful subpoena, can you talk about the statute of limitations, even though, you know, during

this administration, obviously there's nobody, the DOJ, who would seek to hold her accountable, but what could it look like in subsequent administrations?

Right. Well, look, all subpoenas are essentially active within that Congress, within that period of time. And so, right now, obviously, we're here chilled through the end of the year. She has to comply, and we would move to hold her

in contempt immediately if she didn't comply with the subpoena. And certainly as a private citizen, she doesn't have the Department of Justice or the president able to play games as it relates to her and her

scheduling. I think she's going to be quite available here in the next couple of weeks. Yeah. In addition, we're going to work our plan and certainly mine. We're going to win the Congress and we're going to win back the House. And if she thinks she's going to try to evade or distract, it's just not possible. It's better for her to get out in front of this now, give us the truth, and tell us why they've docked survivors' names. Why the cover-up?

Why has Donald Trump's name been removed, put back, and then removed from the files? Why did the president say this was a hoax and try to shut down the investigation? So there's a lot of questions to ask, and I think we're going to be hearing from her

in the weeks ahead. You had mentioned that the subpoena is valid for for this Congress, but would defying a congressional subpoena would would that crime only be valid during this Congress? Or could is that something that could be prosecuted even after this Congress is over?

Well, we can we can we can take that to court and prosecute as long as necessary. I mean, I think at the end of the day, what's ironic here, and the Attorney General knows this, I mean, she's going to be in front of us, whether it's now or in the future, because on day one of a Democratic-controlled Congress, I'll be sending out the subpoena to have Pam Bondi in. So there's not going to be a need for there to be any sort of limitations on that subpoena because she either comes in now or she comes in when I chair the committee.

And so I think that's going to be the important thing. I think she knows that. She is the AG, so she's going to understand that.

In other words, if she wants to shoulder some more legal liability beyond just her refusal to comply with the Epstein-Files Transparency Act, and her lying to Congress about it, and her running cover for one of the main accomplices of this crime, that's up to her. But what's clear is that Democrats have learned their lesson from the Merrick Garland era of thinking that goodwill will buy you something from MAGA Republicans. As I argue in my new book, one of the great fallacies of the Biden, Obama, and Clinton years is this notion that if only Democrats would compromise with their Republican counterparts, their goodwill would be

duly reciprocated. If only they capitulate to the GOP this time, this time, the right will lay down its arms and a golden era of bipartisanship would emerge. I'll hold the ball, Lucy explains to Charlie Brown, and you come running up and kick it. When Republicans are in control, they wield power in a take-no-hostages manner. When Democrats are in control, they seek compromise, practice good governance, defend the institutions of government, and even make sacrifices to the minority in their hopes that the selflessness, their righteousness, and their virtue will be rewarded.

As was the case with Clinton, Obama, and Biden, they never are. Lucy isn't known for letting Charlie kick the football. That book, The Day After, is now available for presale. The single best way to support my work is to preorder that book, so I'm going to put the link on this screen and also in the post description of this video. If you can, please grab a copy after watching this video.

I really appreciate it. In fact, I spoke with Glenn Kirshner about that point as well. Here's what he had to say. How is the Merrick Garland DOJ instructive in terms of what Democrats should do next when they retake control of power as it relates to the Pambandis of the world?

Brian, I hope we've learned our lesson on the accountability front. You know, we are wanting to put this long national nightmare behind us, me as much as anybody else, because you know this is a pretty exhausting fighting for the rule of law, the constitution, and democracy every damn day. But I hope the lesson that we learned from Eric Garland's dithering for literally years until he finally got around to appointing Jack Smith and that was too little too late. I hope that the Dems will recognize they have to go hard, aggressively, apolitically, but

a hundred miles an hour in the direction of accountability from day one. Because you can't just sleep on democracy. We've seen what Trump and company are doing. The challenge is cataloging all their crimes. But there are some working groups that are being put together to make sure we can address that on day one.

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