Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) and Attorney General Pam Bondi went head-to-head with Senate Judiciary Chairman Dick Durbin (D-IL), exposing, once again, his refusal to release the Epstein flight logs that could implicate some of the world’s most powerful elites.
Bondi, appearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, wasted no time calling out Durbin’s obstruction and hypocrisy, and Blackburn backed her up.
Durbin accused Bondi of misleading the public by claiming she had access to the Epstein client files. But Bondi fired back, clarifying her statement.
Sen. Dick Durbin:
In February, you made a public claim that the Epstein client list was sitting on my desk right now for review. You then produced already public information—and no client list—at a major media event hosted at the White House. Attorney General Bondi, why did you publicly claim to have the Epstein client list waiting for your review, and then produce nothing relevant to that claim?Pam Bondi:
Senator Durbin, if you listened to my entire clip on that, I said I had not reviewed it yet—that it was sitting on my desk along with the JFK files, the Martin Luther King files—and I said I had not yet reviewed it. If you see our memo on Epstein, you will see it clearly points out that there was no client list—our July 6th memo.You also didn’t let me respond to the HIDA question. The budget transfers $196 million for High-Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas to the Office of Justice Programs, OJP. The Justice Department will continue to administer those grants under OJP in 2026.
Durbin, undeterred in his partisan witch hunt, pivoted to wild claims from an anonymous “whistleblower” alleging Bondi ordered the FBI to flag Epstein records mentioning President Trump.
Bondi shut that down cold, turning the tables with a bombshell reminder of Durbin’s own dirty hands.
Bondi reminded Durbin that he was the one who repeatedly refused to release those very same flight logs.
Sen. Dick Durbin:
Going back to the Epstein files, according to another whistleblower who made a protected disclosure to my office, you pushed the FBI to review approximately 100,000 Epstein-related records on an arbitrarily short deadline in March, and the FBI was directed to flag any documents that mentioned President Trump.Nothing came of that review until July, when DOJ and FBI released an unsigned memo stating, “There’s no incriminating client list.” Why was the July 7th memo unsigned?
Pam Bondi:
The July 7th memo came from the FBI and the Department of Justice. Director Patel answered those questions very clearly.Senator Durbin, I find it very interesting that you refused repeated Republican requests to release the Epstein flight logs in 2023 and 2024. You fought that. Did you take money from Reid Hoffman—campaign donations? Never heard? Who was a huge Epstein friend? Why did you fight for years? Why did you fight to not disclose the flight log, Senator Durbin?
Sen. Dick Durbin:
I can tell you I did not refuse. One of the senators here wished to produce those logs, and I asked her to put it in writing—and she never did.Pam Bondi:
Yeah, I think Senator Blackburn would quarrel with you on that.Sen. Dick Durbin:
I will quarrel with you as to—I’ll read somebody that you mentioned I never heard of.Pam Bondi:
Reid Hoffman!
When Durbin tried to downplay Bondi’s accusation and blamed Republicans for not filing paperwork “in writing,” Senator Marsha Blackburn wasted no time jumping in.
Durbin scrambled to deflect, claiming the meeting was ended because Republicans invoked a procedural rule. But Blackburn didn’t let him off the hook.
Sen. Marsha Blackburn:
Mr. Chairman, I’ve got to interject something here before I—Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, since Senator Durbin referred to me, I would really appreciate the opportunity to correct the record because Senator Durbin knows I repeatedly asked for those flight logs.I brought up the subpoena. You even shut down the committee because you didn’t want that, and you know I submitted that in writing. And you continue to misrepresent that, and I am not going to let that record stand.
Sen. Dick Durbin:
Mr. Chairman, I just want to make clear that the reason the committee business ended was that your side invoked the two-hour rule. Point number two—as I asked you, if you wanted any documents like flight logs, to put it in writing—you never did.Sen. Marsha Blackburn:
Yes, sir, I did—and your staff knows that I did. We’ll submit, once again, the information to you. We’ve done that several times, but we’ll be happy to, once again, send it to you. I think your staff doesn’t show that to you.
WATCH:
Senator Marsha Blackburn and AG Pam Bondi just tag-teamed Senator Durbin after he denied a subpoena for the flight logs, and knowing Reid Hoffman, a known Epstein affiliate.
Democrats always crack when called on their lies.
Bondi: “I find it very interesting that you refused… pic.twitter.com/86f4emRfEV
— Media Lies (@MediasLies) October 7, 2025
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