Former Attorney General Pam Bondi spent three and a half hours testifying before the House Oversight Committee on Capitol Hill today regarding the Jeffrey Epstein files.

This is her first public appearance since she was removed from the Department of Justice and diagnosed with thyroid cancer. Bondi was observed wearing a bandage on her neck following recent surgery for the condition.

During the testimony, which occurred while Bondi remained under treatment for thyroid cancer, she supported the Department of Justice’s release of Epstein-related documents but acknowledged “redaction errors” were made in the process. Bondi stated that the Department produced nearly three million pages of Epstein files, thousands of videos, and hundreds of thousands of images as part of a review conducted under the Epstein Files Transparency Act. She noted that investigations and document releases advanced across multiple presidential administrations from Bush to Biden.

She indicated she delegated oversight to Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and confirmed that materials withheld were non-responsive, privileged, or duplicative. The Department provided Congress with access to unredacted and duplicate materials for transparency.

Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon, who was present during Bondi’s testimony, reported that Bondi twice stated that Jeffrey Epstein’s accomplice Maxwell should not receive a presidential pardon. Dhillon described Bondi’s view that “females who collaborate with sex offenders are worse because they procure other victims for the sex offender” and that Maxwell, currently serving a 20-year federal prison sentence after being convicted in late 2021 on charges including sex trafficking conspiracy and trafficking of a minor, was “very evil.”

The House Oversight Committee is investigating the Department of Justice’s handling of files related to Epstein, who died in his Manhattan jail cell on August 10, 2019.