Attorney General Pam Bondi issued a statement earlier this week regarding a swath of politically motivated attacks on Tesla properties that were apparently aimed at CEO Elon Musk and his work in conjunction with President Donald Trump&#8217;s administration and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) initiative.
Bondi <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/attorney-general-bondi-statement-violent-attacks-against-tesla-property" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> that the perpetrators of such violent acts would be found and held accountable — and she alluded to the fact that the Justice Department was also pursuing those who were potentially pulling strings behind the scenes, saying that everyone involved was participating in what amounted to &#8220;domestic terrorism&#8221;:
<blockquote>The swarm of violent attacks on Tesla property is nothing short of domestic terrorism. The Department of Justice has already charged several perpetrators with that in mind, including in cases that involve charges with five-year mandatory minimum sentences. We will continue investigations that impose severe consequences on those involved in these attacks, including those operating behind the scenes to coordinate and fund these crimes.</blockquote>
During a recent appearance with Fox News host Will Cain, Bondi spoke about the development, explaining that the designation allowed for Justice Department officials and the FBI to follow more investigative avenues in their search for the people involved.
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Cain asked whether designating the attacks as &#8220;domestic terrorism&#8221; would allow the FBI to follow the funding, and Bondi said that was a part of the ongoing process.
&#8220;These attacks are taking throughout our country,&#8221; Bondi said. &#8220;We have charged multiple people. Get ready, more are coming. One we charged in Oregon is facing five to twenty years in prison. We filed in Colorado, we filed in South Carolina. There are more coming, and yes, the funding is one thing we are looking at among many others.&#8221;
&#8220;I was personally in a meeting about it this morning,&#8221; she added. &#8220;We are coming after you. We believe these are organized, these are not individuals out there throughout the country doing this on their own, they&#8217;re targeting Tesla owners, they&#8217;re targeting Tesla dealerships, they&#8217;re targeting Elon Musk, who is out there trying to save our country, and it will not be tolerated.&#8221;
&#8220;We are coming after you, we will find you, and if you are an organized group who is funding this, we&#8217;re going to find you too,&#8221; Bondi concluded.

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‘Nothing Short Of Domestic Terrorism’: AG Bondi Issues Statement After ‘Violent Attacks’ On Tesla

'Nothing Short Of Domestic Terrorism': AG Bondi Issues Statement After 'Violent Attacks' On Tesla

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A U.S. District judge appointed by former President Barack Obama ordered on Saturday that President Donald Trump&#8217;s recent order — designating violent Venezuelan prison gang members as foreign terrorists — was illegal and all planes deporting them should be stopped or returned to the United States.
Judge James Boasberg ordered placed a temporary hold — for 14 days — on Trump&#8217;s use of 1798&#8217;s Alien Enemies Act, and applied it to active deportations already in progress: &#8220;Any plane containing these folks that is going to take off or is in the air needs to be returned to the United States however that is accomplished. Make sure it’s complied with immediately.&#8221;
&#8220;I do not believe I can wait any longer and am required to act,&#8221; Boasberg added, noting that because the gang members in question would remain in federal custody despite the hold on their deportation. &#8220;A brief delay in their removal does not cause the government any harm.&#8221;
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Attorney General Pam Bondi <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/venezuelan-immigrants-sue-trump-over-order-invoking-wartime-alien-enemies-act-of-1798/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">responded quickly</a>, issuing a statement regarding the judge&#8217;s ruling: &#8220;Tonight, a DC trial judge supported Tren de Aragua terrorists over the safety of Americans. TdA is represented by the ACLU. This order disregards well-established authority regarding President Trump&#8217;s power, and it puts the public and law enforcement at risk.&#8221;
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt also issued a lengthy statement via X, defending Trump&#8217;s decision to use the Alien Enemies Act.
&#8220;President Donald J. Trump signed a Proclamation Invoking the Alien Enemies Act regarding the Invasion of the United States by the Foreign Terrorist Organization Tren De Aragua, using his core powers as President and Commander-in-Chief to defend the American People from an urgent threat,&#8221; she wrote.
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&#8220;President Trump will always put the safety of the American People first — and he will never allow foreign terrorist enemies to operate on American soil and endanger our people. They will be found, restrained and removed — and their networks will be destroyed,&#8221; Leavitt concluded.
The Federalist&#8217;s Mollie Hemingway also called out Boasberg&#8217;s ruling directly, saying, &#8220;Would not have predicted it was Judge James Boasberg who would be throwing the country into a crisis like this. We need Article III courts to retain their legitimacy and Boasberg&#8217;s reckless order threatens that. Wiser minds must take action, and quickly.&#8221;
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Would not have predicted it was Judge James Boasberg who would be throwing the country into a crisis like this. We need Article III courts to retain their legitimacy and Boasberg&#39;s reckless order threatens that. Wiser minds must take action, and quickly. <a href="https://t.co/yNtyc1U5ZT">https://t.co/yNtyc1U5ZT</a>
&mdash; Mollie (@MZHemingway) <a href="https://twitter.com/MZHemingway/status/1901091926549418390?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 16, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;I&#8217;m sorry, but this absolutely lawless order to TURN AROUND PLANES OF TERRORISTS is so insane that I&#8217;m having trouble comprehending what Boasberg is possibly thinking. Trump can not possibly agree to this,&#8221; she added.
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I&#39;m sorry, but this absolutely lawless order to TURN AROUND PLANES OF TERRORISTS is so insane that I&#39;m having trouble comprehending what Boasberg is possibly thinking. Trump can not possibly agree to this.
&mdash; Mollie (@MZHemingway) <a href="https://twitter.com/MZHemingway/status/1901108010191028343?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 16, 2025</a></blockquote>
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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Friday condemned the weaponization of justice that took place during his predecessor&#8217;s administration, promising transparency about the &#8220;lies and abuses&#8221; that have taken place at the Justice Department, and vowing to protect the American people from these abuses ever happening again.
The president spoke on Friday afternoon at the Department of Justice in Washington, D.C., where he promised that the DOJ and the FBI will become the premier agencies fighting crime on &#8220;the face of the earth.&#8221;
&#8220;But first, we must be honest about the lies and abuses that have occurred within these walls,&#8221; the president said. &#8220;Unfortunately, in recent years, a corrupt group of hacks and radicals within the ranks of the American government obliterated the trust and goodwill built up over generations. They weaponized the vast powers of our intelligence and law enforcement agencies to try and thwart the will of the American people.&#8221;
&#8220;You remember the 51 intelligence agents that said, as an example, that Hunter Biden&#8217;s laptop from hell came from Russia, when they knew that it came right from his bedroom,&#8221; Trump continued. &#8220;They knew that.&#8221;
It was a &#8220;big lie,&#8221; Trump argued — and &#8220;they knew it so well.&#8221;
<div id="attachment_891981" style="width: 874px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/in-first-remarks-at-doj-president-trump-vows-past-days-of-weaponization-are-over/us-politics-trump-160" rel="attachment wp-att-891981"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-891981" class="wp-image-891981 size-large" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/03/GettyImages-2204541562-864x576.jpg" alt="" width="864" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/03/GettyImages-2204541562-864x576.jpg 864w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/03/GettyImages-2204541562-300x200.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/03/GettyImages-2204541562-768x512.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/03/GettyImages-2204541562-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/03/GettyImages-2204541562-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/03/GettyImages-2204541562-1800x1200.jpg 1800w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/03/GettyImages-2204541562-1200x800.jpg 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 864px) 100vw, 864px" /></a>US President Donald Trump and US Attorney General Pam Bondi (L) arrive to speak at the Department of Justice in Washington, DC, on March 14, 2025. (Photo by ROBERTO SCHMIDT / AFP) (Photo by ROBERTO SCHMIDT/AFP via Getty Images)</div>
&#8220;They spied on my campaign, launched one hoax and disinformation after another, broke the law on a colossal scale, persecuted my family, staff, and supporters, raided my home in Mar-a-Lago, and did everything in their power to prevent me from becoming President of the United States,&#8221; he told the assembled DOJ guests.
Trump vowed to restore the scales of justice within the United States and to ensure that such abuses never occur again. He said that the American people want a proper investigation into what went on throughout the Biden administration, &#8220;the corruption of our system,&#8221; and he assured the public that this is exactly what his newly appointed leaders of the FBI and DOJ will do.
&#8220;We will expel the rogue actors and corrupt forces from our government,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We will expose and very much expose their egregious crimes in severe misconduct. &#8230; It&#8217;s gonna be legendary.&#8221;
&#8220;For generations,&#8221; the president said, &#8220;the federal Department of Justice was one of America&#8217;s most revered institutions. &#8230; This department commanded the respect and admiration of the entire world. With Pam [Bondi] and Kash [Patel] leading the way, it will soon be the most admired and most respected of all.&#8221;
The president specifically mentioned the parents at school board meetings, pro-life activists, and traditional Catholics targeted by the DOJ. He slammed the lawyers and activists who attempt to intimidate Supreme Court justices or judges into ruling the way they wish, and the media outlets who echo the claims of these smear campaigns. He introduced an &#8220;angel mom,&#8221; a mother whose son lost his life as a 15-year-old high school freshman when he took a pill laced with fentanyl.
He criticized former President Joe Biden for getting the United States into &#8220;a mess&#8221; with Russia and Ukraine, teasing that he got some &#8220;really good news&#8221; right before he came to the DOJ related to that conflict. He pointed to the botched Afghanistan withdrawal under Biden, arguing that the Biden administration was too focused on targeting Republicans to tend to the weighty global issues at hand.
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In First Remarks At DOJ, President Trump Vows Past Days Of Weaponization ‘Are Over’

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The U.S. Department of Justice has launched a criminal investigation into hotels in New York City that were accused of operating as shelters for illegal aliens on taxpayers&#8217; dime.
The investigation centers around the funding and management of the program, The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/nyregion/migrant-shelters-new-york-federal-probe.html">reported</a>.
CBS News <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/nyc-homeless-shelter-investigation-doj/">reported</a> that federal prosecutors from the Southern District of New York sent subpoenas to multiple hotels involved in the program, including the Roosevelt Hotel and the Stewart Hotel.
A third hotel, the Hotel Chandler, was also subpoenaed, but it has not been accused of housing illegal aliens.
The New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/03/12/us-news/feds-open-criminal-probe-into-nyc-migrant-shelters-demanding-staff-turns-over-names-of-aliens-housed-at-hotels/">reported</a> that a nearby hotel, the Candler Building, has been used as an illegal alien shelter and that prosecutors might have issued a subpoena to the wrong hotel.
Investigators sought evidence and testimony from the hotels over “an alleged violation” of federal immigration law, the subpoenas said.
Hotels were asked for the names of entities and people who were responsible for the “funding and management of the illegal immigrant/migrant shelter program,” the subpoenas said, according to the Times.
The subpoenas also sought all contracts related to the program.
The report said New York City has not yet been subpoenaed in the investigation.
Nearly a quarter million illegal aliens came to New York City during President Joe Biden&#8217;s term, which saw more than 10 million illegal aliens come into the U.S.
The staggering explosion in illegal aliens coming to the city spurred Democratic Mayor Eric Adams to spend $7 billion to take care of them.
President Donald Trump has led the most historic crackdown on illegal immigration in U.S. history since coming into office, with border officials recording only 8,347 illegal aliens crossing the southwest border between ports of entry during his first full month in office — by far the lowest number in history.
In contrast, under Biden, there were 249,785 arrests made on the southern border during his most chaotic month for immigration, December 2023. There were countless days under Biden when more illegal aliens entered the country in a single day than entered during Trump&#8217;s entire first full month in office in his second term.

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One former soldier and two active-duty U.S. Army soldiers were arrested over alleged schemes to send national defense information to China. 
The Justice Department <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/active-duty-and-former-us-army-soldiers-arrested-theft-government-property-and-bribery" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> Thursday that Jian Zhao, and Li Tian, both active duty Army soldiers based at Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington, and former soldier Ruoyu Duan had been charged for stealing U.S. military secrets. They were accused of stealing top secret hard drives, information on weapon systems, and documents on missile defenses to sell to individuals based in China, the DOJ said. 
“The defendants arrested today are accused of betraying our country, actively working to weaken America’s defense capabilities and empowering our adversaries in China,” said Attorney General Pam Bondi. “They will face swift, severe, and comprehensive justice.”
Tian and Duan were charged in Oregon with conspiring to commit bribery and theft of government property. Zhao was charged in Washington with conspiring to obtain and transmit national defense information, and for bribery and theft of government property.
“While bribery and corruption have thrived under China’s Communist Party, this behavior cannot be tolerated with our service members who are entrusted with sensitive military information, including national defense information,” said FBI Director Kash Patel. “The FBI and our partners will continue to work to uncover attempts by those in China to steal sensitive U.S. military information and hold all accountable who play a role in betraying our national defense.”
According to the indictment, Duan and Tian were involved in a conspiracy that began on or around November 28, 2021, to steal information on America’s operational capabilities by stealing technical manuals and other documentation. The scheme was active as recently as December 19, 2024, the DOJ said. Duan allegedly paid Tian to steal information on the Bradley and Stryker U.S. Army fighting vehicles. 
Zhao is accused of selling hard drives after July 2024 marked “SECRET” and “TOP SECRET” to individuals in China for at least $10,000. He is also accused of stealing a government computer with information on the High Mobility Artillery Rocket System and information related to a potential conflict between the U.S. and China. 
“These arrests underscore the persistent and increasing foreign intelligence threat facing our Army and nation,” said Brig. Gen. Rhett Cox of Army Counterintelligence Command. “Along with the Department of Justice and FBI, Army Counterintelligence Command will continue to work tirelessly to hold those accountable who irresponsibly and selfishly abandon the Army values and choose personal gain over duty to our nation.”

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There are “overwhelming facts, evidence, and testimony&#8221; proving that the University of California allowed a hostile environment on its campuses and failed to protect their employees from anti-Semitic tropes and attacks, senior Justice Department officials told The Daily Wire.
The Justice Department launched an investigation into the University of California system on Wednesday, following extensive reports about pervasive anti-Semitism on its campuses following Hamas’s October 7 attack on Israel, which spurred protests and conflict on campuses around the country.
“This Department of Justice will always defend Jewish Americans, protect civil rights, and leverage our resources to eradicate institutional Antisemitism in our nation’s universities,” Attorney General Pam Bondi <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/us-justice-department-launches-investigation-university-california-under-title-vii-civil" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said in a statement</a> announcing the investigation.
Leo Terrell, the senior counsel to the assistant attorney general for civil rights, who is leading the Justice Department Task Force to Combat Antisemitism, told The Daily Wire that he expects the investigation to compile extensive evidence and testimony that will present “a viable winning case.”
Terrell said that the investigation is part of executing President Donald Trump’s executive order to rid America’s campuses of anti-Semitism.
“Trump and Bondi have made this a number one priority, and I&#8217;m proud and privileged to lead the task force to make sure that we root out anti-Semitism in every aspect of student life,” Terrell told The Daily Wire.
The investigation relies upon both submitted complaints and reporting, including The Daily Wire’s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ucla-student-government-office-refused-to-hire-jews-report-alleges" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> about the student government at the University of California, Los Angeles, allegedly discriminating against Jews and Zionists in hiring practices.
“This is going to lead to a lot more digging into the university to go behind the scenes, lift up the curtain to figure out what else is going on, including potentially emails among university administration where they&#8217;re flagging this issue and nothing&#8217;s going out,” Justice Department Chief of Staff Chad Mizelle, who is helping lead the investigation, told The Daily Wire.
“We don&#8217;t know what we&#8217;re going to find, but we&#8217;re going to look at everything.”
The investigation seeks to determine if the University of California system violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which forbids employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, and national origin. Under Title VII, the Justice Department has the authority to investigate employers where it has reason to believe that a “pattern to practice” of employment discrimination exists.
“This is alleging that the staff, employees, faculty, professors, and people on the payroll are being subjected to a pattern and practice of harassment, unsafe work conditions, hostile work environment, because the university has refused to take action against blatant anti-Semitic behavior,&#8221; Mizelle said.
The University of California system may be guilty of discriminating against Jews and Israelis based on their race, religion, and national origin, according to Mizelle.
“This is one of these instances where you have actually three separate bases of discrimination that it appears that the university has not taken appropriate action to combat,” Mizelle said.
Mizelle and Terrell said they hope to complete the investigation within 30 days, depending on how complicated their findings are. The duo plans to lead a team that will conduct deep dives into troves of emails and documents as well as interview witnesses, including students.
Once the investigation is complete, Bondi will determine if there is enough evidence to pursue a lawsuit to seek injunctive relief, which would include a court requiring the university to cease discriminatory behavior.
While the University of California system has 10 campuses that will be investigated, the Justice Department plans to pay close attention to UCLA and University of California, Berkeley, where many of the troubling reports about anti-Semitism have stemmed.
In December, The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ucla-student-government-office-refused-to-hire-jews-report-alleges">reported</a> on a complaint filed regarding the Cultural Affairs Commissioner of UCLA’s Undergraduate Students Association Council, directing her staff to discriminate against Zionists when reviewing job applications.
A screenshot of a group message from the commissioner shows her alerting her staff when Zionists applied for a job, directing them to “please do your research when you look at applicants.”
A document from the group cited in the complaint categorizes Zionism alongside hateful ideologies, stating that any staff member can be removed from their position if they’re found to exhibit “antiBlackness, colorism, racism, white supremacy, zionism, xenophobia, transphobia, sexism, misogyny, ableism, or any/all other hateful bigoted ideologies.”
Terrell, who graduated from UCLA School of Law in 1990, said the DOJ has received numerous reports and complaints accusing the University of California system of creating a “severe and pervasive form of hostility and work environment.”
“That&#8217;s what we&#8217;re going to follow up on,” he said. “That&#8217;s the whole purpose of the notice to investigate.”
“I think there was such a delay in the response of the officials at UCLA as an example of the failure to take corrective action or immediate action or even to protect the students and the workforce at these universities and institutions,” Terrell added.
UCLA has been one of the most prominent schools thrown in the spotlight since the anti-Israel campus protests erupted, with a federal judge in August <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/court-issues-injunction-barring-ucla-from-helping-anti-semitic-agitators-target-jews" target="_blank" rel="noopener">issuing an injunction</a> to stop the school from permitting and aiding anti-Semitic agitators who blocked Jews from the campus.
Regarding UC Berkeley, Mizelle and Terrell pointed to numerous reports of anti-Semitism, including Jewish students being <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-uc-berkeley-jewish-students-forced-to-evacuate-after-mob-storms-event-with-idf-soldier" target="_blank" rel="noopener">forced to evacuate</a> an event featuring Israeli Defense Forces special forces soldier Ran Bar-Yoshafat after a mob of protesters stormed the building.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-to-sign-executive-order-to-deport-anti-semitic-foreign-students-and-protesters" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Trump established</a> the task force in January. The order marshals all federal resources to combat anti-Semitism and demands the deportation of foreign anti-Semitic demonstrators who violate American laws, including students on visas.
“There&#8217;s a new sheriff in town with Attorney General Pam Bondi and there&#8217;s a new sheriff in town with President Donald J. Trump,” Mizelle said. “They have made it very clear from the moment that Donald Trump was sworn in from the moment that she was sworn in as attorney general, they will not tolerate this.”
He added that the administration is dedicating “extensive resources” towards the effort to combat anti-Semitism.
“It is because of their leadership in this area that we do believe we&#8217;re going to be successful in rooting out anti-Semitic behavior from our colleges,” Mizelle said.
On Tuesday, Trump <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/114104167452161158">announced</a> on Truth Social that all federal funding for schools and universities would be stopped if they allowed “illegal protest.”
“Agitators will be imprisoned/or permanently sent back to the country from which they came,” Trump said. “American students will be permanently expelled or, depending on the crime, arrested. NO MASKS!”
Terrell and Mizelle said any person who feels as if they were discriminated against should <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/us-justice-department-launches-investigation-university-california-under-title-vii-civil" target="_blank" rel="noopener">file a complaint</a> with the Justice Department&#8217;s Civil Rights Division.

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U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi said Monday night that the Department of Justice had received &#8220;a truckload&#8221; of files on the FBI’s case against sex offender and Democrat donor Jeffrey Epstein.
Bondi told Fox News host Sean Hannity that she received the documents after giving the FBI a hard deadline to provide them.
&#8220;I gave [the FBI] a deadline of Friday at 8 a.m. to get us everything,&#8221; Bondi said, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/ag-pam-bondi-says-fbi-delivered-truckload-epstein-files-after-she-put-out-hard-deadline" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to Fox News</a>. &#8220;And a source had told me where the documents were being kept, Southern District of New York, shock. So, we got them all by Friday at 8 a.m.&#8221;
&#8220;Thousands of pages of documents,” she continued. “I have the FBI going through them&#8230;and Director [Kash] Patel is going to get us a detailed report as to why the FBI withheld all of those documents.”
Bondi described the documents she received as “a truckload of evidence.”
&#8220;And, you know, we&#8217;re going to go through it, go through it as fast as we can, but go through it very cautiously to protect all the victims of Epstein,&#8221; she said.
During this interview, Bondi also accused the Biden administration of failing to turn over the documents.
&#8220;No one did anything with them. And why were they sitting in the Southern District of New York? I want a full report on that,&#8221; Bondi said, according to Fox. &#8220;You know, sadly, these people don&#8217;t believe in transparency. But I think more unfortunately, I think a lot of them don&#8217;t believe in honesty.&#8221;
&#8220;And it&#8217;s a new day. It&#8217;s a new administration, and everything&#8217;s going to come out to the public. The public has the right to know Americans have a right to know,” she added.
Last week, Bondi announced on Jesse Watters’ Fox News program that she would release some Epstein files the next day, The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pam-bondi-says-some-epstein-files-including-flight-logs-will-hopefully-be-released-thursday" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. Bondi said the release would contain “a lot of flight logs, a lot of names, a lot of information,” adding that it’s “pretty sick what that man did – along with his co-defendant [Ghislaine Maxwell].”
Maxwell was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jeffrey-epsteins-ex-girlfriend-ghislaine-maxwell-sentenced-to-prison" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sentenced to 20 years</a> in prison for her role in trafficking underage girls for Epstein to assault.
But on the day the documents were expected to be released, Bondi <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pam-bondi-says-fbi-lied-to-her-about-turning-over-all-of-the-epstein-files" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote a letter</a> to Patel saying the FBI had lied to her about turning over all the Epstein files.
“Before you came into office, I requested the full and complete files related to Jeffrey Epstein,” Bondi wrote to Patel. “In response to this request, I received approximately 200 pages of documents, which consisted primarily of flight logs, Epstein’s list of contacts, and a list of victims’ names and phone numbers.”
“I repeatedly questioned whether this was the full set of documents responsive to my request and was repeatedly assured by the FBI that we had received the full set of documents,” Bondi continued. “Late yesterday, I learned from a source that the FBI Field Office in New York was in possession of thousands of pages of documents related to the investigation and indictment of Epstein. Despite my repeated requests, the FBI never disclosed the existence of these files.”
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Pam Bondi Says She Received ‘A Truckload’ Of Epstein Files After Accusing FBI Of Lying

Pam Bondi Says She Received A ‘Truckload’ Of Epstein Files After Accusing FBI Of Lying

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Attorney General Pam Bondi warned the American Bar Association on Monday that it should abandon requirements for law schools to demonstrate a commitment to “diversity and inclusion,” or expect to face further action from the Justice Department.
Bondi wrote a <a href="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/03/Attorney-General-Bondi-Letter-to-David-Brennen.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> to the American Bar Association’s Council of the Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar telling it to immediately end a policy requiring accredited law schools to focus on cultivating a “diverse” student body. The letter said that the policies were illegal and violated the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn affirmative action.
“I am writing because, for years, the Council [&#8211;] the sole body charged with accrediting American law schools has subjected law faculties and law students to unlawful race and sex discrimination under the guise of ‘diversity’ mandates, and that policy must be repealed immediately,” Bondi wrote in a letter shared with The Daily Wire. 
Bondi specifically pointed to the American Bar Association&#8217;s Standard 206 policies, which require law schools to “demonstrate by concrete action a commitment to diversity and inclusion” and having both a student body and faculty that “are diverse with respect to gender, race and ethnicity.”
The enforcement of that policy was <a href="https://www.americanbar.org/news/abanews/aba-news-archives/2025/02/council-of-legal-ed-continues-review-206/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">suspended</a> last week until August 31, 2025, as the Bar Association council considers revising the standards. Bondi applauded the decision to suspend enforcement, but urged the council to completely get rid of the policy.
“I am writing on behalf of the U.S. Department of Justice to make clear that when the Council revisits the issue, there is just one appropriate course: The Standard must be repealed in its entirety. And there is no reason to wait; the Council should repeal the Standard immediately,” she said. “Even without an explicit mandate requiring law schools to actually have diverse faculties and student bodies, any requirement that law schools demonstrate ‘a commitment to diversity’ is deeply problematic.”
She said the diversity requirement “blatantly violates”  civil rights laws and goes against the Supreme’s decision in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard.
Bondi said the only way to enforce the standard would be by effectively making schools institute race and sex-based preference programs.
“It is unclear how state bars can lawfully continue to require prospective lawyers to attend ABA-accredited law schools if the Council continues to abuse its privilege in this way,” she wrote. “The Department of Justice stands ready to take every action necessary to prevent further abuse.”
The American Bar Association has previously been challenged by a number of conservative law firms over racially-focused internship opportunities that it offered in the name of diversity, equity, and inclusion.
The Trump administration has pushed to rid all DEI programs from the government and eliminate any funding to institutions that push DEI as opposed to merit-based programs.

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Pam Bondi Tells American Bar Association To ‘Immediately’ Abandon Diversity Mandates

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Remember the scene from the TV special “The Mystery of Al Capone&#8217;s Vaults” in which Geraldo Rivera tried to open Al Capone&#8217;s vault, finally did, and there was nothing inside?
The reveal of the Epstein files was like that. And this has led to speculation that the Epstein files are still secretly somewhere, and the lack of justification for more material being out there is demonstrated by the lack of material.
This sort of stuff is annoying. I want all the Epstein files exposed, every single piece of them — all of it unredacted as much as humanly possible. Theoretically, the only information that should be redacted is information to protect the victims, certainly nothing to protect the allegations against perpetrators.
I want to know exactly who Jeffrey Epstein was, who was opping him — because the question of how he made his money is a serious question — and why law enforcement basically allowed him to gallivant around performing atrocities against young women on behalf of powerful men with his girlfriend, paramour, and co-conspirator, Ghislaine Maxwell.
But that did not happen on Thursday, and I think these distractions are not great for the Trump administration.
The Trump administration has very serious work. I keep saying this because it&#8217;s important: I want the Trump administration to be highly successful. And there are important things to do.
We need to rebuild the American military. We need to rebuild the American economy and unleash its dynamism. We need to get our debt under control. We need to cleanse DEI from all aspects of the federal government. We need to reshape America&#8217;s foreign policy around rising threats like China.
There is much to do and not a lot of time to do it. So these sorts of shiny-object distractions that don&#8217;t materialize into anything are a problem. And I think they lend credence to the opponents of the Trump administration, which I absolutely don&#8217;t want to happen.
Thursday was a s***show when it came to the Epstein files.
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On Wednesday, Pam Bondi, the attorney general of the United States, announced she would be releasing new Epstein files showing names that have not been released before, unseen materials.
So everyone was waiting for the release of this information. Then, on Thursday morning, pictures started being released of social media influencers who were holding up binders that supposedly contained new Epstein information.
So, ok, fine. It&#8217;s an odd way to release it, but can we see what&#8217;s in it?
Then, over the course of the day, it turned out there was basically nothing in the binders; it was full of information that we already knew.
By the way, this is the second time this has happened. We were told that the JFK files were going to be released and that was going to explode everything. And that never happened. Because guess what? We pretty much know all there is to know about the JFK assassination.
There’s a conspiratorial angle that the Right seems to have fallen in love with: Unanswered questions must be answered in the most perverse possible way. Thinking that if the evidence isn&#8217;t there, but we just keep saying that there is a lack of evidence, and lack of evidence is actually proof of evidence… That kind of thinking is not rational.
I&#8217;m willing to follow this evidence wherever it leads. I want the answers the same as everyone else. The Epstein case is unlike the JFK assassination, where the assassin was Lee Harvey Oswald and there&#8217;s a plethora of video, forensic, and documentary evidence available. In the Epstein case, we really don&#8217;t know what the hell happened.
We still don&#8217;t know any of the key questions, such as who was running him, and if he was an opp, what exactly he was doing? Who were the people on the island? What kind of tapes are there?
All of those questions are unanswered. So I understand why there is so much dyspepsia over the Epstein case. But if you&#8217;re going to do a reveal, that means you better have some goods, something better come out. And it didn&#8217;t come out yesterday.
And I think people are right to be frustrated about it.
The release strategy was weird, and when it turned out there was nothing to it, the repercussions began.
The reason I’m sad about all of this is because there are serious things to be done. Trump has appointed an amazing cabinet. He&#8217;s got a big agenda, things to do, and a short time to do them.
These sorts of distractions are getting in the way of Trump doing what needs to be done.

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The Epstein Release Fiasco

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Yesterday’s Epstein Files Release Was A Total Disaster

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FBI Director Kash Patel responded to a letter from Attorney General Pam Bondi on Thursday that accused the FBI of lying to her about turning over its files on the notorious child sex predator Jeffrey Epstein.
&#8220;The FBI is entering a new era—one that will be defined by integrity, accountability, and the unwavering pursuit of justice,&#8221; Patel said. &#8220;There will be no cover-ups, no missing documents, and no stone left unturned — and anyone from the prior or current Bureau who undermines this will be swiftly pursued.&#8221;
&#8220;If there are gaps, we will find them,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;If records have been hidden, we will uncover them. And we will bring everything we find to the DOJ to be fully assessed and transparently disseminated to the American people as it should be. The oath we take is to the Constitution, and under my leadership, that promise will be upheld without compromise.&#8221;
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The FBI is entering a new era—one that will be defined by integrity, accountability, and the unwavering pursuit of justice. There will be no cover-ups, no missing documents, and no stone left unturned — and anyone from the prior or current Bureau who undermines this will be…
— FBI Director Kash Patel (@FBIDirectorKash) <a href="https://twitter.com/FBIDirectorKash/status/1895250405400903882?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 27, 2025</a></blockquote>
Patel&#8217;s response followed the letter from Bondi on Thursday in which she claimed that a source on Wednesday night told her that she had not received all the Epstein files despite the FBI’s repeated assurances that she had.
“Before you came into office, I requested the full and complete files related to Jeffrey Epstein,” Bondi wrote to Patel, according to a copy of the letter posted to X by Michael Shellenberger. “In response to this request, I received approximately 200 pages of documents, which consisted primarily of flight logs, Epstein’s list of contacts, and a list of victims’ names and phone numbers.”
“I repeatedly questioned whether this was the full set of documents responsive to my request and was repeatedly assured by the FBI that we had received the full set of documents,” Bondi continued. “Late yesterday, I learned from a source that the FBI Field Office in New York was in possession of thousands of pages of documents related to the investigation and indictment of Epstein. Despite my repeated requests, the FBI never disclosed the existence of these files.”
A source who reviewed the files Bondi released told the New York Post that the documents would likely be a “disappointment” to those in the public hoping that the documents would provide new details about Epstein&#8217;s criminal scheme.
Many names from Epstein’s flight logs from Epstein’s private jet were already released as part of a lawsuit from one of his alleged victims. The names released include many famous people, including Prince Andrew of England, Cate Blanchett, Bill Clinton, Cameron Diaz, Leonardo DiCaprio, Al Gore, Stephen Hawking, Michael Jackson, George Lucas, Kevin Spacy, Donald Trump, and Bruce Willis, according to a list published by Newsweek.
None of the individuals on that list have been charged with any wrongdoing, and many of them have claimed that they flew on Epstein’s plane for business meetings.
Epstein allegedly killed himself in 2019 while in federal custody awaiting trial for sex-trafficking.

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Kash Patel Responds To Pam Bondi Letter About Jeffrey Epstein Documents

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In a letter to FBI Director Kash Patel, Attorney General Pam Bondi accused the bureau of lying to her about turning over its files on millionaire sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Bondi sent the letter on Thursday, after she said she learned from a source Wednesday night that she hadn’t received all the Epstein files despite the FBI’s repeated assurances that she had.
“Before you came into office, I requested the full and complete files related to Jeffrey Epstein,” Bondi wrote to Patel, according to a copy of the letter posted to X by Michael Shellenberger. “In response to this request, I received approximately 200 pages of documents, which consisted primarily of flight logs, Epstein’s list of contacts, and a list of victims’ names and phone numbers.”
“I repeatedly questioned whether this was the full set of documents responsive to my request and was repeatedly assured by the FBI that we had received the full set of documents,” Bondi continued. “Late yesterday, I learned from a source that the FBI Field Office in New York was in possession of thousands of pages of documents related to the investigation and indictment of Epstein. Despite my repeated requests, the FBI never disclosed the existence of these files.”
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The FBI&#8217;s NY Field Office said it gave <a href="https://twitter.com/AGPamBondi?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@AGPamBondi</a> all its Jeffrey Epstein Files. It lied to her, says Bondi. That may be because Epstein appears to have been running a sex blackmail operation, or honeytrap, for intelligence agencies. The FBI has used honeytraps for decades&#8230; <a href="https://t.co/KU5S51tcR1">https://t.co/KU5S51tcR1</a> <a href="https://t.co/ld89xFicMN">pic.twitter.com/ld89xFicMN</a>
— Michael Shellenberger (@shellenberger) <a href="https://twitter.com/shellenberger/status/1895202000889115130?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 27, 2025</a></blockquote>
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On Wednesday night, Bondi told Fox News host Jesse Waters that she hoped to release some Epstein files on Thursday, The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pam-bondi-says-some-epstein-files-including-flight-logs-will-hopefully-be-released-thursday" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
“What you’re going to see, hopefully tomorrow, is a lot of flight logs, a lot of names, a lot of information,” Bondi said. “It’s pretty sick what that man did – along with his co-defendant.”
It appears that after this segment, Bondi was contacted about the missing documents.
A source who reviewed the files Bondi is set to release <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/02/27/us-news/heres-what-on-the-jeffrey-epstein-list-that-the-trump-doj-is-set-to-release-later-today/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> the New York Post that the documents set to be released would likely be a “disappointment” to the public hoping for new evidence. The source told the outlet that Epstein’s personal address book is what is expected to be released, and that a client list is not included in this first phase of the release.
Copies of a binder containing the files were handed out to certain X personalities, including Rogan O’Handley (DC Draino) and Chaya Raichik (Libs of TikTok).
Many names from Epstein’s flight logs from Epstein’s private jet were already released as part of a lawsuit from one of his alleged victims. The names released include many famous people, including Prince Andrew of England, Cate Blanchett, Bill Clinton, Cameron Diaz, Leonardo DiCaprio, Al Gore, Stephen Hawking, Michael Jackson, George Lucas, Kevin Spacy, Donald Trump, and Bruce Willis, according to a list <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/jeffrey-epstein-flight-logs-full-list-names-2037216" target="_blank" rel="noopener">published</a> by Newsweek.
None of the individuals on that list have been charged with any wrongdoing, and many of them said they flew on Epstein&#8217;s plane for business meetings. Some, including Alan Dershowitz, Clinton, and Trump, have vehemently denied taking part in any sexual assaults. It is also believed that Trump banned Epstein from Mar-a-Lago after an incident with a club member’s daughter, the Post reported.
Epstein killed himself in 2019 while in federal custody awaiting trial for sex-trafficking.

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Pam Bondi Says FBI Lied To Her About Turning Over All Of The Epstein Files

Pam Bondi Says FBI Lied To Her About Turning Over All Epstein Files