Durbin: DOJ Had FBI Agents Flag Epstein Records With Trump’s Name

Sen. Dick Durbin, the ranking member of the Judiciary Committee, wrote to Attorney General Pam Bondi on Friday, saying he received information she had “pressured the FBI” to put more than 1,000 personnel “on 24-hour shifts to review approximately 100,000 Epstein-related records.” Durbin said that many of those FBI employees “lacked the expertise to identify statutorily-protected information regarding child victims and child witnesses.”

That sounds bad. But this sounds way worse: “My office was told that these personnel were instructed to ‘flag’ any records in which President Trump was mentioned,” Durbin wrote.

Durbin has a lot of questions regarding the inconsistencies coming out of the Trump White House about the Epstein case and the so-called client list. He also wants answers about the “full raw” prison surveillance video released by the DOJ that was likely modified.

But the flagging seems the most damning. It sure looks like Bondi was out to protect Trump in some way, quite possibly at his direction.

So Durbin is demanding to know why records mentioning Trump were flagged; “all political appointees and senior DOJ officials involved in the decision” to do the flagging; what happened to any flagged records; whether or not there’s a log of flagged records and, if so, to forward it to the committee and the inspector general.

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