House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) accused former Attorney General Pam Bondi’s Department of Justice of stonewalling efforts to obtain critical files related to notorious accused child trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
The Gateway Pundit reported last week that President Donald Trump was asked point-blank about the long-awaited release of documents tied to Jeffrey Epstein during a swearing-in ceremony for Paul Atkins as the new chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission.
A reporter asked, “When can we expect the Epstein documents to be released?”
President Trump responded calmly but pointedly: “I don’t know. I’ll speak to the attorney general about that. I really don’t know.”
During an interview on Full Measure with Sharyl Attkisson, Comer accused Pam Bondi’s DOJ of stonewalling the release of Epstein files.
Comer is the latest Republican to criticize Bondi’s leadership, following Anna Paulina Luna, Rudy Giuliani, Gen. Mike Flynn, and Tom Fitton.
Speaking about the newly formed Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets — which is investigating major scandals including the Epstein files, the JFK assassination, and the 9/11 coverups — Comer exposed the alarming pattern of bureaucratic resistance he has encountered.
“Our task force is trying to reach out and question the bureaucrats, figure out which bureaucrat didn’t comply with the orders,” Comer explained.
“Same thing happened with the Epstein files when Pam Bondi thought she was releasing the Epstein files. It really wasn’t the Epstein files, obviously.”
The Oversight Committee Task Force, launched by President Trump and led by Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna, is tasked with exposing the holdouts who defied Trump’s first-term directives and obstructed the release of thousands of Epstein and JFK documents.
According to Comer, federal officials continue to hide behind the tired excuse of “ongoing investigations” to deny the American people the truth about Epstein’s decades-long trafficking operation — and potentially, the powerful figures who enabled or participated in it.
Pressed by Attkisson on which Trump-era officials were responsible for refusing transparency, Comer made it clear: stonewalling has become a systemic problem in the very agencies meant to uphold justice.
Even more chilling, Comer raised the explosive possibility that the U.S. government itself may have exploited Epstein’s trove of blackmail material to control or coerce powerful political, business, and media figures.
Comer:
That task force is working very hard behind the scenes to identify which bureaucracies and which bureaucrats are complying with the President’s orders. I heard that 10,000 times over the past two years: “Well, we can’t turn that over, there’s an ongoing investigation.” We’re hearing that with the Epstein files now in this administration.Atkinson:
Who’s telling you that?Comer:
Well, that’s when we request information. If they don’t provide it, that’s what they say — there’s an ongoing investigation.Atkinson:
Some liaison to Congress tells you that?Comer:
Well, whoever replies to our letter or subpoena, that’s what they say — there’s an ongoing investigation.Atkinson:
So even now they’re saving that for Epstein?Comer:
We’ve been real careful to try to let some of these new officials get established and things like that. The task force has asked for the Epstein list and things like that, and that’s been the reply thus far. But they still say, “We’re going to release it. We’re in the process of releasing it. We just have to make sure nothing is released that compromises the ongoing investigation.”[…]
Comer:
The thing that worries me about the Epstein files — and I’ve read a lot about it, like most Americans have — is: Was our government involved in this? Were they potentially blackmailing some of the most influential people in the United States or in the world? If you go into Britain and other countries where we know there were very high-profile people that were going to Epstein Island or whatever you want to call it, if that was the case, I find it hard to believe that any type of evidence of that would still be in existence.Atkinson:
Including videos.Comer:
Including videos. We know there were videos. I think at the very least, there are two questions most Americans have: Who was on the list? And did our government play any role in evaluating that, spying on that, or were they involved in any type of blackmail attempts or anything to get information? Enough time has passed, but we’re still battling that battle.
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