Oversight Democrat slams Trump DOJ for blocking Bondi deposition on Epstein: 'Total B.S.'

Source: MS NOW News

Apr. 9, 2026, 3:27 PM EDT


Democrats have vowed to hold Pam Bondi in contempt after the Justice Department said the former attorney general was no longer required to comply with a subpoena from the House Oversight Committee to sit for a closed-door deposition next week over her handling of the Epstein files.

In a letter addressed to the committee’s chair, Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., Assistant Attorney General Patrick D. Davis wrote that since Bondi was removed, she “no longer can testify in her official capacity as attorney general” and, “The Department’s position is that the subpoena no longer obligates her to appear on April 14.”.

On Wednesday’s “The Weeknight,” Rep. James Walkinshaw, D-Va., a member of the House Oversight Committee, blasted the Trump administration for blocking Bondi’s deposition and called out her temporary successor, acting Attorney General Todd Blanche. “Todd Blanche is a lawyer himself. He was Donald Trump’s personal lawyer. He knows that the statement the Department of Justice put out is total B.S.,” Walkinshaw said. “The fact that she was fired doesn’t absolve her of the legal responsibility to comply with the subpoena.”

The Virginia Democrat said Bondi was “still under a legal obligation to appear on April 14” to speak about the department’s investigation into Jeffrey Epstein. Walkinshaw vowed that he and his fellow Democrats would “hold her and Chairman Comer to account to make sure that that happens.”

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