If anyone once thought that Trump had no criminal or pertinent association with Jeffrey Epstein, this really ought to seal the matter. According to Empty Wheel and taken directly from Senator Dick Durbin’s letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi, it was Bondi herself who hurriedly reassigned a flotilla of FBI agents to peruse hundreds of thousands of filings associated with Jeffrey Epstein and flag all mention of President Donald Trump. A child can make the obvious leap, Bondi knew that Trump would appear in those files and believed that such inclusion would be ruinous to her boss, the president, Trump.
According to a new report in Empty Wheel quoting the Durbin letter:
You (Bondi) then pressured the FBI to put approximately 1,000 personnel in its Information Management Division (IMD)… on 24-hour shifts to review approximately 100,000 Epstein-related records in order to produce more documents that could be released on an arbitrarily short deadline. This effort, which reportedly took place from March 14 through the end of March, was haphazardly supplemented by hundreds of FBI New York Field Office personnel, many of whom lacked the expertise to identify statutorily-protected information regarding child victims and child witnesses or properly handle FOIA requests.
Okay – review the files in preparation to disclose them at some point in the future, and one thousand agents is a TON of personnel. It must have been critical to scour said files. Durbin then dropped the proverbial hammer over the purpose behind putting those agents to work:
My office was told that these personnel were instructed to “flag” any records in which President Trump was mentioned.
Pam Bondi, Kash Patel, and Dan Bongino have made a mess of the Epstein files.It’s time to clear it up once and for all for the American people.
— Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 (@judiciarydems.senate.gov) 2025-07-18T16:32:53.253Z
There you have it. The reason the files had to be reviewed by so many, at such a pace, was to “flag” (Ready to pull) all references to Trump and it’s now a gigantic mess. No wonder Trump was so prepared to release “the files,” they had already flagged anything and everything that might have related to him would be gone. Not that we didn’t assume such, but Durbin brings proof that – at the very least – the assignment for 1,000 agents was to document any mention of Trump.
Wheeler picks it up from there:
Remember: Trump’s appointees have fired two people who would know details of this: the head of the NY Field Office, James Dennehy, who was forced to retire amid allegations the NYFO was sitting on the files, and Maurene Comey, who has been involved in FOIA responses regarding these files. Either could now give protected whistleblower statements to Durbin.
Yes, that Bondi put FBI agents “on the case” in flagging all mention of Trump remains almost as inconvenient a truth as having Trump mentioned in the files at all. It now seems we have a motive for firing Maurene Comey, and it wasn’t based on job performance.
Wheeler then sums the matter up in the most devastating manner:
In her bid to review these files, Bondi created one thousand witnesses to what is in the Epstein file — and Bondi’s attempt to politicize the search for Epstein files. One thousand.
No wonder the House moved to so thoroughly protect Trump. The FBI would be forced to confront the flagging process. Speaking of which, normally this would be a case for Congress, investigating how the entire Epstein matter was investigated itself – as Durbin knows. Alas, we have seen that the Republicans will protect Trump even on the matter of releasing the files – the absence of Trump’s name would be conspicuous as “flagged.” But that doesn’t mean that a Democratic House and/or Senate won’t investigate the matter after 2026. Indeed, the Democrats just found an additional campaign issue – elect us, and we’ll investigate Epstein.
Now that the letter and drawing are out, and the Wall Street Journal knows its source for the secret material, it will be all but impossible for A.G. Bondi to claim that the files are bereft of any mention of Trump. But there are 1,000 witnesses out there – and not just any witnesses, FBI agents – ones that were likely furious to be taken off their more important work, all to protect the president – and they are ready to testify to not only the process of flagging Trump-related material, but even testify to the material itself.
This is big, and Senator Durbin knows it. It will be tougher and tougher for Bondi to squirm through this. And it will be impossible for Republicans to bring either Bondi or Director Kash Patel to Congress to testify on any matter – this will be brought up. Their hands are now tied.
And the plot thickens. No wonder Trump is so scared. This goes very deep, and the evidence at its roots couldn’t be more damning, politically or morally.
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a bleeding ulcer now, wow!!
Their milk pail again gets knocked over, by their connivance. It’s a situation that’s becoming sourer and sourer, and more difficult to control and scrub clean so as to protect their contemptible sacred cow.
And we all know not to cry over spilt milk.
Well put, Post It Note!!!
“In her bid to review these files, Bondi created one thousand witnesses to what is in the Epstein file — and Bondi’s attempt to politicize the search for Epstein files. One thousand.”
All of whom have sworn an oath to the Constitution, so at least a few will be reflecting on that.
Not to mention that testimony before Congress is typically subject to the same penalties as testimony before a judge and jury. I can’t imagine many FBI agents would relish the prospect of winding up behind bars for a couple of years–even if it’s just a “country club” prison. After all, how many of their fellow inmates might be there because of FBI actions?