Pam Bondi to testify in House Oversight Committee's Epstein investigation on May 29 - BERITAJA

Former Attorney General Pam Bondi will attest adjacent period earlier the House Oversight Committee about her domiciled successful handling the merchandise of the Epstein files, Republicans connected the committee said Wednesday.

"We person secured Bondi’s quality for May 29," an X account for the Republican members of the Oversight committee wrote pursuing weeks of demands from Democrats connected the committee that Bondi should attest contempt the truth that she is nary longer serving arsenic lawyer general.

Oversight committee Democrats earlier connected Wednesday wrote connected X that they had revenge contempt charges against Bondi for, "illegally [defying] our committee, skipp[ing] her deposition, and refus[ing] to cooperate."

In a response, the GOP committee members said they'd scheduled Bondi's deposition and accused Democrats of "theater" and "completely unnecessary" behavior.

House Oversight Democrats later took in installments for Republicans' determination to publically sanction a day for Bondi's deposition, penning successful a abstracted station connected X, "Well look astatine this ... 45 minutes aft we record contempt charges against Pam Bondi for defying her lawsuit to testify, @GOPoversight yet announces a day for her appearance."

Five Republicans joined each the Democrats connected the Oversight Committee successful March to ballot to lawsuit Bondi for grounds related to the Justice Department's handling of the Epstein files. The deposition that stemmed from that ballot was group to beryllium held successful mid-April.

But aft President Donald Trump fired Bondi earlier this month, the Justice Department notified the Oversight Committee that she would nary longer appear for the deposition. The DOJ based on that Bondi had been subpoenaed successful her charismatic domiciled arsenic lawyer wide and she was nary longer serving successful that role.

Democrats connected the Oversight Committee based on that Bondi's grounds was still vital, fixed that she had served astatine the apical of the section during the merchandise of the Epstein files.

In an question and reply pinch Beritaja’“Meet the Press" earlier this month, Oversight Committee personnel Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., compared Bondi's imaginable grounds pinch that of erstwhile Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's. Clinton and her husband, erstwhile president Bill Clinton, each testified successful a closed-door deposition earlier the committee aft the erstwhile president appeared successful a bid of photographs released pinch the Epstein files.

Bill Clinton has denied immoderate wrongdoing related to Jeffrey Epstein and Hillary Clinton has said that she ne'er met him.

"I mean, if we could pursuit Hillary Clinton, who hasn’t been successful agency for 20 years, surely we could get Pam Bondi to explicate why she covered up documents, why we haven’t had prosecution," Khanna said connected "Meet the Press."

Last year, Khanna and Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., led the complaint successful Congress to walk a rule compelling the Justice Department to merchandise each files successful the agency's possession related to Epstein.

In December, the department began releasing the Epstein files online, pinch respective record drops occurring complete the adjacent respective weeks.

The Justice Department has been heavy criticized by immoderate lawmakers, Epstein survivors and right-wing media figures for really the agency has handled the merchandise of the Epstein files.

The department's soul watchdog is set to review whether the agency is compliant pinch the rule that compelled the merchandise of the Epstein files. And an independent group, the Government Accountability Office, is also reviewing the Justice Department's handling of the merchandise of the files astatine the petition of a bipartisan group of senators.

DOJ officials, including acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, person defended the department's handling of the files, including disapproval from survivors that immoderate of their individual accusation wasn't decently redacted.

“Sometimes it was genuine mistakes and that’s human, and that doesn’t make it right. I’m not excusing that, but you’re talking about little than 1% by the way, arsenic acold arsenic we cognize it’s fixed,” Blanche told Beritaja earlier this month.