🚨 Raskin EXCORIATES Bondi TO HER FACE in OPENING STATEMENT

What this episode is about

During a heated House Judiciary Committee hearing, Democratic ranking member Jaime Raskin delivered a scathing opening statement to Attorney General Pam Bondi, highlighting her alleged complicity in the Department of Justice's handling of Jeffrey Epstein's child sex trafficking ring. Raskin's remarks emphasized the need for accountability and justice for the victims, while MAGA Republicans largely abstained from questioning Bondi about Epstein, following directives from Donald Trump.

Key takeaways

• In a stunning display, Rascin highlighted Bondi's DOJ as a champion for perpetrators, not victims.
• Bondi's incomplete document release on Epstein suggests selective transparency—an unusual move for a 'justice' department.
• At a hearing meant to uncover horrors, Bondi's passive demeanor screamed complicity rather than compassion.
• Rascin's fiery rhetoric isn't just performance; it's a call for accountability in a system charged with apathy.
• MAGA Republicans’ silence on Epstein reveals a troubling prioritization: party loyalty over justice for victims.

Who speaks in this episode?

• Jamie Raskin (Guest) · 15 min speaking
• Pam Bondi (Guest) · 7 min speaking

What is discussed, and when

1. 0:00 – 5:00: Attorney General Pam Bondi, Jeffrey Epstein, Department of Justice, Jamie Raskin
2. 5:00 – 10:00: Donald Trump, Department of Justice, Attorney General Pam Bondi, Jeffrey Epstein
3. 10:00 – 15:00: Attorney General Pam Bondi, Jamie Raskin, Miracle Made Sheets, Department of Justice
4. 15:00 – 20:00: Jeffrey Epstein, Department of Justice, Attorney General Pam Bondi, Donald Trump
5. 20:00 – 21:50: Jeffrey Epstein, Attorney General Pam Bondi, Department of Justice

Notable quotes from "🚨 Raskin EXCORIATES Bondi TO HER FACE in OPENING STATEMENT"

• The DOJ attacking Donald Trump's political enemies, the DOJ taking orders from Donald Trump to engage in all of this unlawful behavior. We'll be covering that as well. But I want to focus right now on Jaime Rascin's.

  about Department of Justice · at 0:47

• The truth be told and are demanding accountability for the abusers who trafficked and raped them. You still haven't met with these survivors. So with their permission, let me…

  about Jeffrey Epstein · at 2:08

• Epstein coverup. Let's play it. That will be your legacy unless you act quickly to change course. You're running a massive Epstein cover up right out of the Department of…

  about Attorney General Pam Bondi · at 3:13

• That but it's even worse. You've turned the People's Department of Justice into Trump's instrument of revenge. Trump orders up prosecutions like pizza, and you deliver every time. He tells you to.

  about Donald Trump · at 7:04

• Miracle Made sheets feel just as good, if not better, than sheets you'd find at a five-star hotel, but without the steep price tag. Smooth, breathable, and ridiculously comfortable. Thanks to.

  about Miracle Made Sheets · at 10:03

• Particularly powerful moment at the outset of this hearing is when Congresswoman Gyipol, you've seen her on the Midas Touch Network before, she calls for the victims who are in…

  about Midas Touch · at 14:05

• You're being questioned, we ask you to look in the eyes of every single one of us and remember Virginia Roberts Chafrey, who paid the ultimate sacrifice for the trauma that she…

  about Virginia Dufrey · at 18:36

Who and what is mentioned in this episode?

People

• Attorney General Pam Bondi — Person · Referenced official / main subject of criticism · 10 mentions · first at 0:04
  Portrayed as Donald Trump's Attorney General testifying before the House Judiciary Committee and accused of mishandling/covering up Epstein-related DOJ disclosures and politicizing DOJ actions.
• Donald Trump — Person · Referenced political figure / alleged director of DOJ actions · 6 mentions · first at 0:04
  Depicted as directing DOJ behavior through Pam Bondi, ordering Republicans not to ask about Epstein, and using DOJ as an instrument against political enemies.
• Jeffrey Epstein — Person · Referenced criminal figure / core subject of oversight dispute · 11 mentions · first at 0:21
  Central to the hearing narrative: described as running a global child sex trafficking ring; discussion focuses on DOJ files, victim/survivor accountability, and alleged cover-up.
• Jamie Raskin — Person · Main speaker (opening statement) / critic · 5 mentions · first at 0:59
  Identified as the Democratic ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee delivering an opening statement sharply criticizing Pam Bondi and alleging DOJ corruption and an Epstein-related cover-up.
  You act quickly to change course. You're running a Then Congress member Rascin talks about how Pam Bondi is running a massive Epstein coverup. Let's play it. That will be your legacy unless you act quickly to change course. You're running.
• Virginia Dufrey — Person · Referenced survivor/victim (named in hearing attendees list) · 2 mentions · first at 2:36
  Mentioned as a (late) survivor whose family is present; invoked by survivors as emblematic of trauma and the need for accountability and careful victim protection.

Companies & orgs

• Department of Justice — Company · Business focus · 10 mentions · first at 0:47
  Central to the discussion about the handling of the Epstein files and accusations of cover-ups and unethical behavior under Trump's administration.

Sponsors

• Midas Touch — Company · Sponsor · 2 mentions · first at 1:25
  Mentioned as the network covering the hearing and providing updates, indicating a media presence in the context of the discussion.
• Miracle Made Sheets — Product · Sponsor · 3 mentions · first at 9:54
  Promoted during the podcast with a detailed ad read, indicating a commercial relationship with the podcast.

Full transcript with timestamps

0:00 The Democratic ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, Jaime Rascin, excoriated Donald Trump's Attorney General, Pam Bondi, during his opening statement. Attorney General Pam Bondi is testifying before the House Judiciary Committee as part of its oversight functions. Democrats are primarily focusing their questions on Donald Trump and Trump's DOJ cover up of Epstein's child sex trafficking ring and their complicity in it. Meanwhile, the MAGA Republicans are refusing to pretty much ask her any questions about Epstein because they've been ordered by Donald Trump and MAGA Mike to not ask any questions at all about Epstein.

0:40 Democrats, of course, are asking Attorney General Pam Bondi questions about a number of other subject matters. The DOJ attacking Donald Trump's political enemies, the DOJ taking orders from Donald Trump to engage in all of this unlawful behavior. We'll be covering that as well. But I want to focus right now on Jaime Rascin's opening statement. It was powerful. Attorney General Pam Bondi, very passive aggressive. She refused to even look at Jaime Rasin when he was just excoriating her point by point. So, let me show you what went down here. First, let me show you as Attorney General Pam Bondi arrived uh at the uh hearing. This is how she was greeted. Midas touch cameras were there. Let me show you what went down and played this clip.

1:30 You are disgrace to the American people. You protect pedophiles and systematically rape.

1:37 Now, let me show you Jamie Rasin's opening statement. Here is how he started. Let's play this clip.

1:44 Welcome, Attorney General Bondi. You've got the best lawyer's job in America because your mission is justice and your clients are the American people. But to promote justice for the people, you've got to listen to the victims, like the women seated behind you today. Those are just some of the hundreds of survivors of Jeffrey Epstein's global sex trafficking ring who are demanding that the truth be told and are demanding accountability for the abusers who trafficked and raped them. You still haven't met with these survivors. So with their permission, let me introduce to you the survivors and late survivors family members who are present today.

2:25 There's Terresa Helm. There's Jess Michaels, Laura Bloom McGee, Danny Benski, Liz Stein, Marina Lera, Sky and Amanda Roberts, who are the family of the late Virginia Dufrey, Charlene Rashard, and Lisa Phillips. Now, you're not showing a lot of interest in the victims, Madam Attorney General. Whether it's Epstein's human trafficking ring or the homicidal governmental violence against citizens in Minneapolis, as attorney general, you're siding with the perpetrators, and you're ignoring the victims. That will be your legacy unless you act quickly to change course. You're running a

3:07 Then Congress member Rascin talks about how Pam Bondi is running a massive Epstein coverup. Let's play it. That will be your legacy unless you act quickly to change course. You're running a massive Epstein cover up right out of the Department of Justice. You've been ordered by subpoena and by Congress to turn over 6 million documents, photographs, and videos in the Epstein files, but you've turned over only 3 million. You say you're not turning over the other 3 million because they're somehow duplicative, but we know that there are actual memos of victim statements in there. And you also took down the Department of Justice's prosecution memo from 2019. So, it's clearly not all duplicative, but even if it were, why not release it? Just release all the duplicative stuff. In the half you did produce, you redacted the names of abusers, enablers, accompllices, and co-conspirators, apparently to spare them embarrassment

4:09 and disgrace, WHICH IS THE EXACT opposite of what the law ordered you to do. Even worse, you shockingly failed to redact many of the victims names, which is what you were ordered to do by Congress. Some of the victims had come forward publicly, but many had not. Many had kept their torment private, even from family and friends. But you published their names, their identities, their images on thousands of pages for the world to see. So you ignored the law. And even with over a 100,000 employees at your disposal, you acted with some mixture of staggering incompetence, cold indifference, and jaded cruelty towards more than 1,000 victims raped, abused, and trafficked.

5:02 This performance screams cover up. Convict. More from Congress member Rascin right here talking about how Pam Bondi and Trump have abandoned victims. They're going after individuals, not just when it comes to the Epstein files, but look what they're doing with Renee Nicole Good and Alex Prey, calling them domestic terrorists. Here, play this clip. But abandoning victims and coddling perpetrators is what you do best when the FBI opened a criminal investigation into the brutal killing in Minneapolis of Renee Good, a poet and 37year-old mother of three by Trump's masked paramilitary ICE agents. You shut it down. You claim you're investigating the cold-blooded murder of Alex Prey, an ICU nurse at the VA. But how can we trust the administration when the president and Christine Gnome call Freddy a domestic terrorist and Steven Miller called him a would-be assassin?

6:00 Not only do you refuse to share evidence with the state and local investigators and prosecutors in Minnesota, you have blocked their access to the crime scene and the evidence. How are you seeking justice for Mariamar Martinez, the monastery school teacher in Chicago who was shot five times by a border patrol agent who bragged about it on text. Or the family of Keith Porter, a father of two shot and killed by an offduty ICE agent in LA. Or the family of Sylio Vieas Gonzalez shot and killed in Illinois minutes after he dropped his kids off at school. There's no sign of any movement at the Department of Justice. You even launched a criminal investigation into Renee Good's grieving widow. How sick is that? But it's even worse. Congress member Raskin says Trump orders up prosecutions like pizza and he sends you text messages on his truth social media platform and then you take orders directly from him. Do you realize

7:00 how unethical and how unlawful that is? Bondi, here. Play this clip. That but it's even worse. You've turned the People's Department of Justice into Trump's instrument of revenge. Trump orders up prosecutions like pizza, and you deliver every time. He tells you to go after James Comey, Leticia James, Lisa Cook, and Jerome Powell, the head of the Federal Reserve Board, and members of Congress like Adam Schiff, Mark Kelly, Alyssa Slotkin, Chrissy Hulahan, Jason Crowe, Chris Duzio, and Maggie Goodlander to name a few. And you snap to it. You replace real prosecutors with counterfeit stooges who robotically do the president's bidding. Nothing in American history comes close to this complete corruption of the justice function and contamination of federal law enforcement. And the good news is many serious lawyers at DOJ, including some of your own original employees, have refused your lawless orders.

8:00 Danielle Sassoon, your original pick for acting US attorney in Manhattan, resigned rather than follow your corrupt order to quash an indictment against Mayor Eric Adams as a political favor from Donald Trump. A Federalist Society member who clerked for Justice Scalia, US Attorney refused to participate in this blatantly corrupt scheme. Her top assistant, Hagen Scottton, an Iraqi war vet and two-time Bronze Star recipient who clerked for Chief Justice Roberts, and then Judge Kavanaaugh, promptly resigned, too, writing to your office, quote, "I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool or enough of a coward to file your motion, but it was never going to be me." You and the president nominated Eric Sebert, a 15-year career prosecutor, to be your US attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia.

8:52 But after five months of investigating Leticia James and James Comey, he found no evidence to justify criminal charges. So you forced him out. You replaced him with Lindseay Halligan, Trump's personal lawyer from the Mara Lago documents case, who had zero prosecutorial experience and no qualifications. And then you were humiliated when a federal judge found that this corrupt appointment was blatantly unlawful and threw out Halligan's indictments entirely. And grand juries of American citizens have repeatedly rejected your vendettas and baseless indictments brought by the hacks left at DOJ now with two different grand juries in Virginia voting down indictments against Leticia James in a single week. And just yesterday, another grand jury shut down your vendetta factory by rejecting indictments against the six members of Congress who had spoken out to remind all service members that they have a

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11:09 Code midas at checkout. Thanks to Miraclemade for sponsoring this episode. More from Congress member Rasin right here where he talks about how uh Trump's DOJ tried to indict six members of Congress, two senators, four members of the House of Representatives yesterday for making a video that just told members of the military, you're not allowed to follow unlawful orders. And Trump's DOJ tried to prosecute them and get an indictment. Fortunately, it was rejected by the grand jury in Washington DC, but the Trump DOJ tried to prosecute them for sedicious conspiracy. Watch Jamie Raskin just lay into PM behind you right here. Play this clip.

11:52 You tried to get a grand jury to indict six members of Congress who are veterans of our armed forces on charges of sedicious conspiracy simply for exercising their First Amendment rights. I hope you will heed the wisdom and the constitutional patriotism of those grand jurors and not try it again by doubling down on that humiliation as your best lawyers. And then Jamie Rascin says to Pam Bondi, "We ask you politely but firmly. Answer our damn questions. When we ask you questions, don't go through that little burn book of yours and start complaining and whining and attacking.

12:31 Just answer the damn questions. Do you understand, Bondi? Here, play this clip. Now, as ranking ch ranking member, uh, I asked the chairman to add a few extra rounds of questions today because we each have five hours of questions, not 5 minutes. But we're stuck with five minutes. That's clearly insufficient to give voice to America's victims and survivors and to demand answers about all the corruption and cover-ups that we see at DOJ right now. We've got just one round. So, we ask you politely but firmly, Madam Attorney General, please do not waste one second of our precious time by evading questions, by changing the subject or engaging in personal attacks against members of Congress. We saw your performance in the Senate, and we're not going to accept that. This isn't a game. In the Senate, you brought something with you called a burn book, a binder of smears to attack members personally for doing the people's work

13:29 of oversight. Please set the burnbook aside and answer our questions. And when you hear us reclaim our time, that means it's time for you to stop speaking. We only have 5 minutes. So, when we reclaim our time, that means you stop. And if you don't, we will ask the chair to stop the clock and let you go on his time. The quality of justice in America depends on the character of our government. Please do your job and bring the Department of Justice back from the brink. The survivors seated behind you and the American people watching everywhere deserve a Department of Justice worthy of its name. I yield back, Mr. Chair. Objection. Now, a particularly powerful moment at the outset of this hearing is when Congresswoman Gyipol, you've seen her on the Midas Touch Network before, uh she calls for the victims who are in attendance at the hearing today, the survivors who were at the hearing today to stand up. And she says to the

14:21 survivors in the room, "Stand up right now and raise your hand if you've never met Pam Bondi or if you've never had the opportunity to even meet with the DOJ." And the DOJ's first and foremost priority is supposed to be to protect survivors, to protect victims. That's what the DOJ has a whole department dedic that's what they're doing. They're supposed to prosecute the bad guys and they're supposed to help victims and survivors. Watch what went down here. Play this clip. To the survivors in the room, if you are willing, please stand.

15:04 And if you are willing, please raise your hands if you have still not been able to meet with this Department of Justice. Please know for the record that every single survivor has raised their hand.

15:21 And then I'll just share with you what Pam Bondi had to say. More whining right away in her opening statement where she's like, "We had to fight all of this judicial activism. It was a coordinated effort by all of these judges and all of the judges. They don't like Donald Trump." More whining. Exactly what we expect from Pam Bondi. Play this clip. This administration has been sued 627 times. We've fought through a non-stop flood of bad faith temporary restraining orders from liberal activist judges across this country. America has never seen this level of coordinated judicial opposition towards a presidential administration.

16:07 It is not only an unlawful attack on the executive branch's authority, but a serious attack on the democratic process. In spite of this unprecedented judicial activism, we've attained 24 favorable rulings at the US Supreme Court, their emergency docket, and even more to come. We've done so while ending the weaponization of the prior administration by dropping face act prosecutions, exposing the Arctic frost scandal via congressional disclosure. Thank you, chairman. And restoring one tier of justice in this country. And then she has the audacity to say she wants to acknowledge the Epstein survivors when you just saw them stand up and you refuse to acknowledge them ever. Do you realize how obviously phony you are?

17:04 What a fraud you are? What a crook you are? Here, play this clip. All members of Congress, as you know, are invited to visit DOJ to see for yourselves. I want to take a moment to acknowledge the Epstein survivors who are here today. I'm a career prosecutor and despite what the ranking member said, I have spent my entire career fighting for victims and I will continue to do so. I am deeply sorry for what any victim any victim has been through, especially as a result of that monster. If you have any information to share with law enforcement about anyone who has hurt you or abused you, the FBI is waiting to hear from you.

17:59 I want you to know that any accusations of criminal wrongdoing will be taken seriously and investigated. The Department of Justice is committed to holding criminals accountable to the fullest extent of the law.

18:16 And then right before that hearing, we heard from some of those survivors right here and Epstein survivor over here saying how deeply disappointed she is. And Bondi, play this clip.

18:27 To Miss Bondi, we are deeply disappointed by the way you and your leadership in this department have treated survivors. And today, while you're being questioned, we ask you to look in the eyes of every single one of us and remember Virginia Roberts Chafrey, who paid the ultimate sacrifice for the trauma that she had endured. We ask you to remember the lives that we have lost during this process. Accountability means real answers, not evasion. It means transparency, not more hiding. Another survivor saying that all we hear is from the Trump regime saying they want to move on. Let's just move on and the survivors can't move on. Here, play this clip.

19:12 We as a nation have an opportunity to send a strong message. That we will not protect people who victimize children. That we will stand up for what is right despite what our politics are. That we will cross the aisle. and that we will stand behind survivors for justice. We keep hearing our press secretary and our Department of Justice and other government officials saying they're moving on from this. I wish that we could. I met Epstein Maxwell when I was 21 years old. I'm nearly 53 now. We cannot move on as survivors of this crime.

19:58 and as citizens of this nation without changing this narrative. So I ask you all to stand behind us and demand accountability for our government

20:10 because we certainly are going to. Amen. And then here's another Epstein survivor talking about how the Trump regime botched the redactions of survivors names so badly they could only infer that it's malicious, that it was an attempt to intimidate and harm the survivors. Here, play this clip.

20:30 Last year, I stood here as a survivor demanding the release of the Epstein files. Today, I stand here again as a citizen demanding accountability now that Congress is questioning Pam Bondi of the Department of Justice about the handling of the Epstein Files Transparency Act. Let me be clear, survivors are furious. We watched the Justice Department botch reductions so badly that victim's images were exposed while predators identities were kept hidden and protected. That does not feel like an accident or a clerical error. It feels like betrayal.

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Jamie Raskin (Guest), Pam Bondi (Guest).

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During a heated House Judiciary Committee hearing, Democratic ranking member Jaime Raskin delivered a scathing opening statement to Attorney General Pam Bondi, highlighting her alleged complicity in the Department of Justice's handling of Jeffrey Epstein's child sex trafficking ring. Raskin's remarks emphasized the need for accountability and justice for the victims, while MAGA Republicans…

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8 people, works and ideas are mentioned, including Attorney General Pam Bondi, Donald Trump, Jeffrey Epstein, Department of Justice, Jamie Raskin, Virginia Dufrey. Each one on this page links to its own page with every episode that mentions it.

How long is "🚨 Raskin EXCORIATES Bondi TO HER FACE in OPENING STATEMENT"?

The episode runs 22 min; the transcript is about 3,237 words in 32 timestamped sections.

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