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BREAKING: Senator Dick Durbin drops a massive bombshell and reveals that Attorney General Pam Bondi "pressured" roughly 1,000 FBI personnel to sift through tens of thousands of Epstein documents to flag all mentions of Donald Trump.
And it gets so much worse...
In letters sent to Bondi, MAGA FBI Director Kash Patel, and Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino, Durbin revealed that his office has received "information" that Bondi has "pressured the FBI to put approximately 1,000 personnel in its Information Management Division" on 24-hour shifts to dig through 100,000 Epstein-related documents ahead of a possible document release.
The personnel were "instructed to ‘flag’ any records in which President Trump was mentioned." No benign explanation has been provided for the frantic operation and it has supercharged allegations of a coverup.
Durbin is demanding more information about the administration's deeply suspicious handling of the files and for an explanation as to why officials are flagging documents that mention Trump.
In his letters, Durbin pointed to the now-infamous 2002 remarks in which Trump stated that he had known Epstein for 15 years and thought that he was a "terrific guy" who was "a lot of fun to be with."
He also mentioned the "bawdy" letter that Trump sent to Ghislaine Maxwell for inclusion in a birthday album for Epstein. Durbin stated that the letter "contains several lines of typewritten text framed by the outline of a naked woman, which appears to be hand-drawn with a heavy marker" in addition to Trump's signature.
Durbin asked Bondi, Patel, and Bongino to explain if they have personally reviewed all of the Epstein files and if the FBI has Epstein-related documents that the DOJ has no reviewed.
“Is there a log of the records mentioning President Trump? If yes, please transmit a copy of the committee and the OIG,” Durbin wrote, meaning the Senate Judiciary panel and the Office of Inspector General.
On top of that, Durbin is demanding clarification on Bondi's previous statement that the Epstein client list was sitting on her desk for review. More recently, a DOJ memo claimed that the list doesn't exist. Either Bondi was lying then, or the Justice Department is lying now.
Senator Durbin wrote that the memo's claim about the list “contradicts public statements" that Bondi “repeatedly made.”
Not done there, Durbin also drew attention to problems with the "fully raw" footage that the administration released of the prison cell where Epstein allegedly committed suicide.
"Public skepticism of the government’s transparency in this matter has been needlessly increased due to your release of surveillance video from outside of Jeffrey Epstein’s cell,” wrote Durbin. “In fact, the footage was likely modified, according to the metadata embedded in the video.”
He demanded an explanation for any modifications or edits made to the footage before its release.
Durbin concluded by asked for answers by August 1st.
"Prompt attention to this important matter is crucial to understanding the truth and preventing this administration’s actions from causing greater harm," wrote the senator.
The American people deserve the truth.
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