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Thank you kindly, Mr.
Chairman

and welcome Attorney
General Bond

you've got the best
lawyer's job

in America because your
mission is justice

and your clients are the
American people.

But to promote justice for
the people,

You've got to listen to the
victims

like the women seated
behind you today

Those are just some of the
hundreds

of survivors of Jeffrey
Epstein's global

sex trafficking ring who
are demanding

that the truth be told,
and are demanding

accountability

for the abusers who
trafficked and raped them.

You still haven't met with
these survivors.

So with their permission,
let me introduce to you the

survivors

and late survivors,
family members who are

present today.

There's Teresa Helm,
there's Jess Michaels,

Laura Bloom McGee, Danny
Benski, Liz Stein,

Marina Lacerda, Skye and
Amanda Roberts,

who are the family of the
late Virginia Giuffre,

Charlene Richard, and Lisa
Phillips.

Now you're not showing a
lot of interest

in the victims, Madam
Attorney General.

Whether it's Epstein's
human trafficking

ring or the homicidal
governmental violence

against citizens in
Minneapolis,

as Attorney General,

you're siding with the
perpetrators

and you're ignoring the

perpetrators and you know
that there are actual memos

of victim statements in
there.

And you also took down the
Department

of Justice's prosecution
memo from 2019.

So it's clearly not all
duplicative,

but even if it were, why
not release it?

Just release all the
duplicative stuff.

In the half you did
produce,

you redacted the names of
abusers,

enablers, accomplices,
and co-conspirators,

apparently to spare them
embarrassment

and disgrace,

which is the exact opposite
of what the law ordered you

to do.

Even worse,
you shockingly failed to

redact many

of the victim's names,
which is what you were

ordered to do by Congress.

Some of the victims had
come forward publicly,

but many had not.

Many had kept their torment
private,

even from family and
friends.

But you published their
names,

their identities,

their images on thousands
of pages

for the world to see.

So you ignored the law and
even

with over 100 ,000 employees

at your disposal, you acted
with some mixture of

staggering

incompetence, cold
indifference,

and jaded cruelty towards
more

than 1 ,000 victims raped,
abused and trafficked.

This performance screams
cover-up.

Convicted sex trafficker
and groomer Ghislaine

Maxwell

opened the gates of hell to
Virginia

Joufray and hundreds of
other victims,

as Virginia recorded in her
remarkable book,

Nobody's Girl.

But when Maxwell was
subpoenaed to come testify

before Congress,

you and Todd Blanche
quickly moved her

from a higher security
prison to a minimum

security camp in Texas
where she's enjoyed

five-star treatment,
including catered meals,

private gym time and access
to a therapy puppy.

All because Todd Blanche,
who's utterly failed to

investigate

the monstrous crimes of
Epstein

and Maxwell's
co-conspirators

spent nine hours with
Maxwell

and satisfied himself that
she would

have nothing untoward to
say about Donald Trump,

which is your only real
interest

in the matter based
on institutional

performance.

But abandoning victims
and coddling perpetrators

is what you do

best when the FBI opened a
criminal

investigation into the
brutal killing

in Minneapolis of Renee
Good,

a poet and 37-year-old
mother of three

by Trump's masked
paramilitary ICE agents.

You shut it down.

You claim you're
investigating

the cold-blooded murder of
Alex Preddy,

an ICU nurse at the VA,
but how can we trust the

administration

when the president and
Kristi Noem call

Preddy a domestic terrorist?

And Stephen Miller called
him a would-be

assassin.

Not only do you refuse to
share evidence

with the state and local
investigators

and prosecutors in
Minnesota,

you have blocked their
access to

the crime scene and the
evidence.

How are you seeking justice
for Marimar Martinez,

the Montessori school
teacher

in Chicago who was shot
five times

by a Border Patrol agent,

who bragged about it on text?

Or the family of Keith
Porter,

a father of two shot and
killed

by an off-duty ICE agent in
LA.

Or the family of Silverio
Villas Gonzalez

shot and killed in Illinois
minutes

after he dropped his kids
off at school.

There's no sign of any
movement

at the Department of
Justice.

You even launched a
criminal investigation

into Renee Goode's grieving
widow.

How sick is that?

But it's even worse,
you've turned the people's

Department

of Justice into Trump's
instrument of revenge.

Trump orders up
prosecutions like pizza,

and you deliver every time.

He tells you to go after
James Comey,

Letitia James, Lisa Cook,

and Jerome Powell,
the head of the Federal

Reserve Board,

and members of Congress
like Adam Schiff,

Mark Kelly, Alyssa Slotkin,

Chrissy Houlihan, Jason
Crowe,

Chris Deluzio, and Maggie
Goodlander,

to name a few.

And you snap to it.

You replace real
prosecutors

with counterfeit stooges
who robotically

do the president's bidding.

Nothing in American history
comes close

to this complete corruption

of the justice dysfunction
and contamination of

federal law enforcement.

And the good news is many
serious lawyers at DOJ,

including some of your own
original employees,

have refused your lawless
orders.

Danielle Sassoon,
your original pick for

acting U.

member who clerked for
Justice Scalia, U .S.

Attorney says soon refused
to participate

in this blatantly corrupt
scheme.

Her top assistant, Hagan
Scotton,

an Iraqi war vet and
two-time

Bronze Star recipient who
clerked

for Chief Justice Roberts

and then Judge Kavanaugh
promptly resigned,

too, writing to your office,

quote, I expect you will
eventually

find someone who is enough

of a fool or enough of a
coward

to file your motion,

but it was never going to
be me.

You and the president
nominated Eric Siebert,

a 15-year career
prosecutor, to be your U .S.

attorney for the eastern
district of Virginia.

But after five months
of investigating Laetitia

James

and James Comey,
he found no evidence to

justify

criminal charges.

So you forced him out.

You replaced him with
Lindsay Halligan,

Trump's personal lawyer
from the Mar-a-Lago

documents case who had zero
prosecutorial

experience and no
qualifications.

And then you were
humiliated when

a federal judge found that

this corrupt appointment
was

blatantly unlawful and
threw out

Halligan's indictments
entirely.

And grand juries of
American citizens

have repeatedly rejected
your vendettas

and baseless indictments
brought

by the hacks left at DOJ
now,

with two different grand
juries

in Virginia voting down
indictments

against Letitia James in a
single week.

And just yesterday,
another grand jury shut

down your

Vendetta factory by
rejecting indictments

against the six members

of Congress who had spoken
out

to remind all service
members

that they have a duty to
refuse illegal orders.

You tried to get a grand
jury to indict

six members of Congress who
are veterans

of our armed forces on
charges

of seditious conspiracy
simply

for exercising their First
Amendment rights.

I hope you will heed the
wisdom

and the constitutional
patriotism

of those grand jurors
and not try it again by

doubling down

on that humiliation.

As your best lawyers are
sacked

for having participated

in the January 6th case or
just flee

for the exits now,

your new lawyers keep lying
in court.

In dozens of cases,
they've been excoriated

for lying to federal judges.

Chief Judge Boesberg,
right here in D .C.,

suggested your Department

of Justice perpetrated a
fraud on the court.

Other judges found your
statements to be,

quote, quote, inexplicably
misleading,

patently incredible,
totally inconsistent,

and so disingenuous that
the court is left

with little confidence that
the government can

be trusted to tell the
truth about anything.

Now, as a ranking member,
I asked the chairman to add

a few

extra rounds of questions
today

because we each have five
hours of questions,

not five minutes,
but we're stuck with five

minutes.

That's clearly insufficient
to give voice to

America's victims and
survivors,

and to demand answers about
all the corruption

and cover-ups that we see
at DOJ right now.

We've got just one round,
so we ask you politely but

firmly,

Madam Attorney General.

Please do not waste one
second

of our precious time by
evading questions,

by changing the subject,
or engaging in personal

attacks

against members of Congress.

We saw your performance in
the Senate,

and we're not going to
accept that.

This isn't a game.

In the Senate,
you brought something

with you called a burn
book,

a binder of smears to attack

members personally for
doing the people's work

of oversight.

Please set the burn book
aside

and answer our questions.

And when you hear us
reclaim our time,

that means it's time for
you to stop speaking.

We only have five minutes.

So when we reclaim our
time,

that means you stop.

And if you don't,
we will ask the chair to

stop the clock

and let you go on his time.

The quality of justice in
America depends

on the character of our
government.

Please do your job and
bring the Department

of Justice back from the
brink.

The survivors seated behind
you

and the American people
watching

everywhere deserve a
Department

of Justice worthy of its
name.

I yield back Mr.
Chair.