Rep. Jamie Raskin (D‑MD), ranking member on the House Judiciary Committee, is urging Chairman Jim Jordan to issue subpoenas to Attorney General Pam Bondi, FBI Director Kash Patel, and Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino.
Raskin wants them to testify under oath on the scope, contents, and decision-making process behind the release—or withholding—of the Epstein files.
Last week, Raskin, joined by 15 other radical Democrats, sent a six-page letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi accusing her of “withholding” Epstein-related documents to protect President Trump.
According to the letter:
This Administration has repeatedly claimed that President Trump is “the most transparent and accessible president in American history.” So far, your DOJ has not only failed to live up to this promise, but you have also consistently hidden from the American public materials and information that may be damaging to President Trump.
Earlier last month, Elon Musk, the former senior advisor to President Trump and head of the Department of Government Efficiency, posted on his social media website, X, that President Trump “is in the Epstein files.
That is the real reason they have not been made public.” His tweet, which has since been deleted, was clearly referring to records related to the investigation of Jeffrey Epstein, the convicted sex offender, in the possession of the FBI and DOJ.
At his confirmation hearing, Director Patel vowed to release the Epstein files, stating that he would “make sure the American public knows the full weight of what happened.”
In February 2025, you came under intense public criticism after releasing the “first phase” of roughly 200 pages of the Epstein files that consisted largely of information that was already public.
Subsequently, you reportedly ordered hundreds of FBI agents, many of whom were usually focusing on national security matters, to review the Epstein files.
Agents that were assigned for this review reportedly “clocked more than 100 hours of work over the most recent two-week pay period, including a marathon session last weekend, during which they slept on desks while waiting for new batches of Epstein records to process.” In April, you claimed the FBI was reviewing “tens of thousands of videos” of Mr. Epstein “with children or child porn.”
Despite this immense effort, no additional Epstein records have been released, and just this week, the FBI stated that it has determined “no further disclosure would be appropriate or warranted.”
This raises the question of whether the White House has moved to prevent the declassification and public release of the full Epstein files because they implicate President Trump, and whether these massive redaction efforts and the withholding of the files were intended to shield your boss from embarrassing revelations within those files.
During an interview with MSNBC’s Jen Psaki, Raskin said, “It’d be much better for everybody to come clean, and let’s vindicate the public interest here. I’m going to be asking Chairman Jordan to call for a hearing where we subpoena the Attorney General, Dan Bongino, and Kash Patel to come in and tell us everything that we know—because this thing is really spinning out of control at this point. And there’s one way to put it to rest, which is to come clean, as President Trump promised he would during the campaign.”
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Raskin: I’m going to be asking Chairman Jordan to call for a hearing where we subpoena the Attorney General and Dan Bongino and Kash Patel pic.twitter.com/eWPE5wgXE3
— Acyn (@Acyn) July 12, 2025
