Oh, Now the Bondi DOJ Has ‘Pending Investigations’ of Epstein Conspirators?
It sure is odd how "pending investigations" suddenly show up when the Attorney General is called to testify, and then disappear again.
Photo by Department of Justice JusticeSplinter Jeffrey Epstein
In the midst of yesterday’s tumultuous testimony of Attorney General Pam Bondi before the House Judiciary Committee on the subject of the Epstein Files, attention understandably focused on the moment that has already yielded an iconic photo: a haggard, downcast Bondi with her eyes on the floor, willing herself to not turn around and face the victims of Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual violence standing behind her as those victims stood and raised their hands to signify that they had never been called to testify by the Justice Department. It was powerful stuff, and it was at least mildly cathartic on some level to watch Bondi grilled on Capitol Hill not just by the usual cast of Congressional Democrat grandstanders, but also by members of the Republican party as well. But any fleeting mote of satisfaction should vanish the moment you hear Bondi say that hey, the DOJ apparently has “pending investigations” of Epstein conspirators as of yesterday? Well, that’s news to us!
That’s news to everyone, in fact, considering that Bondi’s DOJ, joined by Kash Patel’s FBI, has spent the better part of a year repeatedly swearing up and down that not only are there no remaining active investigations into Epstein co-conspirators, but that evidence doesn’t exist—and has never existed—to indict anyone on the topic. How odd, that more investigations suddenly exist at exactly the moment when they would be a convenient reason for the Attorney General to “not be able” to comment on why the DOJ hasn’t indicted any of Epstein’s co-conspirators. Will those investigations still exist … tomorrow? Or do they only crop up in this exact instance?
Caught in another lie.
Assistant Attorney General Todd Blanche makes clear to public there are no current or pending investigations against Epstein’s co-conspirators & clients.
Attorney General Pam Bondi, today under oath, makes it clear to House committee that there are current investigations
Hmmm
Specifically, in response to questions Wednesday from Republican Rep. Chip Roy (TX) on whether anyone else would be indicted for ties to Epstein’s crimes, Bondi said only “We have pending investigations in our office,” while refusing to give any further details. From context, she would seemingly be talking about her own DOJ, with “in our office,” although one wonders if this is instead a very awkward reference to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Southern District of New York, where Bondi assigned U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton to personally oversee shamelessly political investigations into only Democrats from the state with connections to Epstein. As is traditional in these testimonies, we leave with no clear idea what the fuck Bondi was talking about when she invoked “pending investigations.” Ironically, if they actually did eventually bring charges against someone following this, it would be a tacit admission that the public was uncovering material in the files that the DOJ itself missed or covered up for years.
What we do know is that the DOJ has been telling the American public constantly and continuously since last July to stop asking about Epstein. After the likes of President Donald Trump and countless other MAGA Republicans ran for office on promises of revealing the truth about Epstein and revealing the names on the financier’s “client list,” Pam Bondi dashed those hopes in July with the release of a memo that claimed that not only had the DOJ and FBI found no evidence of the client list, but that their years of review “did not uncover evidence that could predicate an investigation against uncharged third parties.” This, only a few months after Bondi had publicly stated that the Epstein client list was “sitting on my desk right now to review.” In the span of only a few months, the MAGA coterie (and their online bot army) went from righteous warriors digging up the truth on a notorious pedophile and sex trafficker, to desperately pleading with the public to stop demanding more details on the story that they themselves had hyped up. Bondi went from promising justice, to saying that “perpetuating unfounded theories about Epstein” would in fact be impeding justice, so please just never mention him again, okay?
The FBI, of course, got in on the fun as well. Director Kash Patel testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee in September, putting it on the record that the bureau had “no credible information, none” that Jeffrey Epstein had ever trafficked young women to any other individual than himself. When Sen. John Kennedy (LA), yet another Republican, expressed disbelief that Epstein had trafficked women to “no one,” Patel replied that if there was any such evidence, “I would bring the case yesterday.” I suppose all of the Epstein victims like Virginia Giuffre must be lying and misremembering about having been trafficked to all these powerful men?
2.5 million Epstein documents are still unreleased with the DOJ saying no further prosecutions are likely to take place. That alongside the failure to redact the victims in this case is a complete and utter moral failure. Release all of them now.
— Vivian Jenna Wilson (@thevivllainous.bsky.social) Feb 4, 2026 at 2:55 PM
The rest is more recent history. The DOJ, prodded on by Trump, fought tooth and nail at every step of the way to stop the release of more files related to the Epstein investigation. In the House of Representatives, Speaker Mike Johnson refused to swear in new Rep. Adelita Grijalva (AZ) for months after she had vowed to be the tiebreaker to force a vote in the House on the release of the Epstein Files. And when the government was finally, finally compelled by law to put out that material, it repeatedly stalled for time, only to finally release the files in tranches that exposed the details (even nude photos) of victims while redacting the names of potential conspirators.
On Wednesday before the House, Bondi continued to dodge questions on why the names of so many perpetrators are being hidden from the American public. Only now, she has yet another new excuse to fall back on: “Pending investigations.” I’m sure we’re all looking forward to the vast criminal conspiracy that the DOJ will uncover, months after telling us repeatedly and definitively that it didn’t exist.
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