The former U.S. Attorney General, Pam Bondi, has chosen to defy the House of Representatives by not appearing next week before its Oversight Committee, where she was scheduled to testify as part of the investigations into the case of confessed sex offender, Jeffrey Epstein. Bondi, who was removed from her position by U.S. President Donald Trump last week, had been summoned to testify before the House on April 14 in a bipartisan call. However, a spokesperson for the Oversight Committee stated that the Department of Justice informed this Wednesday that Bondi would not appear because she is no longer Attorney General, even though after her dismissal last Thursday, April 2, it was specified that she had to appear before the House in any case. The spokesperson added that the committee will contact Bondi's personal lawyer “to analyze the next steps,” as her testimony is now in the air. The former Attorney General is facing criticism for her errors in handling the Epstein case investigation, which were also considered one of the determining factors for Trump to remove her from his administration. Her intervention at a House Judiciary Committee hearing last month was controversial, where she was very combative, refused to apologize to some of Epstein's victims who were in the room, and aggressively defended Trump. It also went viral because she responded to a question by stating that the Dow Jones Industrial Average of Wall Street “is above 50,000 points right now,” using the record high of the stock index as an argument to deflect questions about the pedophile. The Oversight Committee's investigations began last year with a judicial summons for the Department of Justice to deliver all files in the case (with sensitive details, such as victim names, redacted). Already before the committee have testified former U.S. President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and this Tuesday it was also learned that the billionaire co-founder of Microsoft, Bill Gates, will appear on June 10 before the same body to explain the details of his relationship with Epstein, who died in 2019 after being found hanged in his cell in a federal prison.
