House Republican 'not confident' Bondi will release Epstein clients

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) said during an interview that she was “not confident” yet that Attorney General Pam Bondi would release the client list of disgraced financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

“I’m not confident on the Epstein client list because I haven’t had the briefing yet from the Department of Justice,” Luna said during her Monday night appearance on One America News's “The Matt Gaetz Show.”

“I’ll know more tomorrow on that, but based on what I’m hearing from the attorney general, she keeps saying that she is going to release something, so I am going to take her at her word for that,” the Florida Republican told former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.).

Over the weekend, Bondi said on Fox News that she was misled on the Epstein documents while also defending the ridiculed documents dump on Thursday.

“I kept saying, there has to be more. There has to be more,” Bondi said. “I was assured that’s it.”

Luna, who heads the bipartisan House panel that reviews classified documents in high-profile cases, said the group of lawmakers has been pushing for “maximum transparency.”

“We have asked for the full list, we have asked for all of the documentation, we are pushing for maximum transparency, but again, we do not hold the classification authority,” Luna said. “That is again up to the attorney general. Now, what I can tell you is, I’m very optimistic about MLK, RFK, and JFK.”

The Justice Department (DOJ) released a tranche of documents on Thursday to a group of conservative influencers, most of which were already publicly available. Bondi later said there are far more to be released to the public.

Luna shared her disappointment on social media over the DOJ’s document dump on Thursday, the “phase one” that was packaged and given to MAGA-aligned influencers in white binders.

“THIS IS NOT WHAT WE OR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ASKED FOR and a complete disappointment,” Luna wrote on X. “GET US THE INFORMATION WE ASKED FOR!”

Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-Fla.) characterized the rollout of the documents as a bad day for the White House.

Epstein, who mingled with royalty, celebrities and other powerful people, died in 2019 by apparent suicide before his trial on sex trafficking charges.

Bondi said on Saturday that she learned from a “whistleblower” that the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York is “sitting on thousands of pages of documents” that had yet to have been given to the DOJ.

“We will get everything,” she told Fox News host Mark Levin. “We will have it in our possession. We will redact it, of course, to protect grand jury information and confidential witnesses, but American people have a right to know.”

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