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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.