Pam Bondi walked into a closed-door Oversight Committee interview on Friday wearing the calm of a woman who knows exactly where the secrets are kept. The former Attorney General defended the Department of Justice’s handling of investigative files on Jeffrey Epstein, insisting that "justice and transparency... have been delivered at the direction of President Trump." According to a transcript obtained by MS NOW, Bondi claimed the DOJ released all documents required by the Epstein Files Transparency Act.

Oversight Chairman James Comer remains unconvinced. “The government has failed the survivors,” Comer told reporters, pointing out that only 50% of the files have been released. Representative Robert Garcia added that lawmakers have "a lot of questions" about the missing half of the cache, especially as names like Sarah Kellen begin to surface in the redacted margins of the DOJ's production. Bondi, represented by personal attorney Harmeet Dhillon, sat for hours as Democrats criticized the Republican majority for not videotaping the session.

While Bondi talked to lawmakers on Capitol Hill, the President was busy in New York refiling a $10 billion defamation suit against the Wall Street Journal. According to the filing, the suit targets the paper’s reporting on Trump’s ties to the deceased financier, following a judge’s earlier dismissal of the case. It is a classic move from the Doral playbook: when the files start to leak, you file for ten billion and wait for the news cycle to reset.