Hollywood star Channing Tatum joined an online campaign against US Attorney General Pam Bondi on Monday, calling her Donald Trump’s Ghislaine Maxwell, a reference to the jailed associate of the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
During a heated House Judiciary Committee hearing, Bondi relied on economic talking points, including stock market performance, while under pressure over the Epstein documents.
Several victims of Epstein’s alleged crimes watched from the public gallery.
Taking to his Instagram Stories, the actor shared a post targeting Bondi for her handling of investigation files.
However, the actor shared the post-criticism about Bondi without using any caption.
A Republican U.S. lawmaker accused Attorney General Pam Bondi on Wednesday of concealing the names of powerful associates of late financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein as she faced questions about the Justice Department’s handling of investigative files during a charged hearing before a House of Representatives panel.
Rep. Thomas Massie, a Kentucky Republican who helped lead the effort to demand the release of the files, accused the Justice Department of a “massive failure” to enforce the law while questioning why billionaire Leslie Wexner’s name was redacted in an FBI document listing potential co-conspirators in the sex trafficking investigation into Epstein.
Bondi said Wexner’s name appears numerous times in other files the department has released and that the DOJ removed his name from the document “within 40 minutes” of Massie noticing it.
“Forty minutes when I caught you red-handed,” Massie replied.
Bondi had a series of other heated confrontations with members of the House Judiciary Committee who expressed frustration over the amount of Epstein material the department has redacted and withheld.
The Justice Department released a so-called final tranche of more than 3 million pages of documents late last month, drawing renewed attention to wealthy and powerful individuals who maintained ties to Epstein even after his conviction for soliciting prostitution from a minor.
Lawmakers have complained that redactions in the filings appear to go beyond the limited exceptions allowed in a law that Congress passed almost unanimously in November. The department has also refused to publish a large amount of material, citing legal privilege.
In many cases, Bondi responded to the criticism with personal attacks and insults against lawmakers. Flipping through a folder, she accused Democrats of being indifferent to crime victims in their districts and called the panel’s top Democrat a “f*cked-out lawyer,” a noticeably partisan tone from the nation’s top law enforcement official.
