Pam Pedo Protector

Pam Bondi is protecting Donald Trump from accusations that he and Jeffrey Epstein raped a 13-year-old

It is not my opinion that Pam Bondi is hiding information in the Epstein files to protect Donald Trump. It's a fact.

It is not my opinion that Donald Trump is a pedophile. It's a fact. I know that is a bold statement, and legal and journalism standards would say that you need proof before making such a dangerous accusation. We have proof. You do not walk into dressing rooms for teenage girls, as Donald Trump admitted and boasted about without being a pedophile.

We have now learned that the Justice Department withheld several items in the Epstein files related to allegations that Donald Trump sexually abused a 13-year-old with Jeffrey Epstein. As uncovered by NPR, these include more than 50 pages of FBI interviews, as well as notes from conversations with a woman who accused Trump of sexual abuse decades ago when she was a minor.

Of course, an accusation does not prove guilt, but there must have been a level of believability to the woman's story since the FBI interviewed her at least four times.

But whether Donald Trump is guilty or not, what is definitely a fact is that Pam Bondi is using the Justice Department to protect Donald Trump, even though the law that he himself signed mandates that she release all of the Epstein files, even the ones that mention his and his billionaire buddies' names.

Rep. Robert Garcia, D-Calif., issued a statement saying, “Yesterday, I reviewed unredacted evidence logs at the Department of Justice. Oversight Democrats can confirm that the DOJ appears to have illegally withheld FBI interviews with this survivor who accused President Trump of heinous crimes.”

In a Feb. 14 letter to members of Congress first reported by Politico, Bondi and Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche insist that no records were withheld or redacted "on the basis of embarrassment, reputational harm, or political sensitivity, including to any government official, public figure, or foreign dignitary." That now appears to be another lie from Donald Trump's goons.

According to newly released files, the FBI internally circulated Epstein-related allegations that mention Trump in late July and early August 2025, probably to determine which ones would hurt Trump the most if they were released. The list, collected from the FBI's National Threat Operations Center, included numerous salacious allegations. Agents marked most of the accusations as unverifiable or not credible, but still probably more believable than Donald Trump’s State of the Union speech.

But one lead was sent to the FBI's Washington office with the purpose of setting up an interview with the accuser. The lead was included in an internal PowerPoint slide deck detailing "prominent names" in the Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell investigations last fall.

The woman who directly named Trump in her abuse allegation claimed that around 1983, when she was around 13 years old, Epstein introduced her to Trump, “who subsequently forced her head down to his exposed penis, which she subsequently bit. In response, Trump punched her in the head and kicked her out.”

Out of more than 3 million pages of files released by the Justice Department in recent months, this specific allegation against Trump appears only in copies of the FBI list of claims and the DOJ slideshow.

But a review of FBI case file logs and discovery documents turned over to Maxwell and her attorneys in the criminal case against her points to one place the claim could have come from, and how seriously investigators took it.

The FBI interviewed this Trump and Epstein accuser four times. That is according to an FBI “Serial Report” and a list of Non-Testifying Witness Material in the Maxwell case that was also released under the Epstein Files Transparency Act.

Only the first interview, conducted July 24, 2019, is in the public database. That interview does not mention Trump.

Of 15 documents listed in a log of the Maxwell discovery material for this first accuser, only seven are in the Epstein files database. Those missing also include notes that accompany three of the interviews.

According to NPR’s review of three different sets of serial numbers stamped onto the files, there appear to be 53 pages of interview documents and notes missing from the public Epstein database.

In the first interview document, the woman discussed ways Epstein abused her as a girl and, in identifying him to investigators, showed a cropped photo of Epstein. Her attorney said it was cropped because she “was concerned about implicating additional individuals, and specifically any that were well known, due to fear of retaliation.” The FBI agents noted it was a “widely distributed photograph” of Epstein with Trump.

A woman whose biographical details and description of Epstein’s abuse found in the FBI interview also line up with details from a victim lawsuit. In the December 2019 filing, “Jane Doe 4” does not mention Trump, and the woman voluntarily dismissed her claims against Epstein’s estate in December 2021.

Elsewhere in the released Epstein files, someone in the FBI wrote on July 22, 2025, before the list and slide presentation were compiled, that Trump's name was in the larger case files and that "one identified victim claimed abuse by Trump but ultimately refused to cooperate."

The other woman whose mention of Trump made the DOJ’s presentation appears in Maxwell discovery files released last month in what’s known as a Testifying Witness 3500 material list.

In the first interview of six with the FBI conducted between September 2019 and September 2021, the second woman detailed how Epstein and Maxwell’s abuse began while she was around 13 years old and attending the Interlochen Center for the Arts and described how, at one point, Epstein took her to Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club to meet him. "EPSTEIN told TRUMP, 'This is a good one, huh,'" the interview report reads.

In a 2020 lawsuit against Epstein’s estate and Maxwell, the second woman added that both men chuckled and she “felt uncomfortable, but, at the time, was too young to understand why.”

In an FBI interview with the woman's mother, she recalled hearing that "a prince and DONALD TRUMP visited EPSTEIN's house," which made her "think that if they are there then how could EPSTEIN be a criminal."

Attorney Robert Glassman, who represents the woman who testified against Maxwell, told NPR, "This whole thing is ridiculous. The DOJ was ordered to release information to the public to be transparent about Epstein and Maxwell's criminal enterprise network. Instead, they released the names of courageous victims who have fought hard for decades to remain anonymous and out of the limelight. Whether the disclosures were inadvertent or not—they had one job to do here, and they didn't do it."

And how seriously are Republicans taking allegations against Donald Trump? Today, in Chappaqua, New York (that's right. Make them come to you.), they deposed Hillary Clinton, who has never met Jeffrey Epstein, in a closed-door hearing before the House Oversight Committee. Clinton has demanded that these hearings be public, but knowing that they will embarrass themselves and that the Clintons are smarter than any of them, Republicans have refused.

Instead of talking to someone who has never met Jeffrey Epstein, Republicans should be interviewing the worst FBI Director in history, Kash Patel, and Howard Lutnick, who claimed he cut off ties with Epstein because he was disgusted by him, but then visited his island with his family and went into business with the pedophile.

Clinton accused Republicans in her opening statement of using her as a prop in “partisan political theater.”

She said, “You have compelled me to testify, fully aware that I have no knowledge that would assist your investigation, in order to distract attention from President Trump’s actions and to cover them up despite legitimate calls for answers.”

She added, “You have made little effort to call the people who show up most prominently in the Epstein files,” noting that not a single Republican had attended a closed-door session last week in Ohio to depose Leslie Wexner, the retail billionaire and mega donor to Republicans.

And proving that Republicans were just using her as a prop to deflect from Donald Trump, one of them leaked a photo of her from the hearing, which was supposed to be closed. In protest, she abruptly halted the hearing, which resumed 30 minutes later.

Republicans initially blamed Democrats for the photo leaking out, but it was soon learned that it came from Lauren Boebert, who gave it to right wing fuck nut podcaster Benny Johnson, who posted it on social media.

Republicans spent weeks, if not months, screaming and pointing fingers at the Clintons for not testifying, and threatening to throw them in jail in contempt for not cooperating with a subpoena, and when she does testify, they prove that they cannot be trusted. They proved that they cannot be taken seriously. They proved that this is just a game. They proved that they're not really looking for criminals associated with Jeffrey Epstein, and that this is just politics to them.

Rep. James Walkinshaw, Democrat of Virginia, said, “There is no indication — zero, zip, zilch, nada — that Secretary Clinton had any knowledge of Epstein’s crimes. My fear is we’re here today as part of a political exercise, part of a long-running fever dream where Republicans want to lock up Secretary Clinton.”

Tomorrow, Republicans will hear from Bill Clinton, which is guaranteed to be a fun time.

Creative note: I will not be surprised if we don't see more cartoons similar to this one. The idea may be kind of obvious.

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