We must call Bondi and Patel to testify in the judiciary committee. Now, he says in a video statement on X, also referring to FBI chief Kash Patel.
The demand comes after The Wall Street Journal on Wednesday revealed that the Minister of Justice in May informed President Donald Trump that his name appears in several places in the human trafficking investigation surrounding financier Jeffrey Epstein.
Just a week or two ago, Trump denied being informed that his name was in the documents. But now we know that Bondi told him, says Schiff.
The Department of Justice has at the same time decided not to disclose any more documents from the investigation, which has caused great upset among both Trump supporters and political opponents.
Many other high-profile names are also said to have been in the documents, according to a source for WSJ. Being mentioned in the documents does not necessarily mean that one has done anything wrong or criminal, the newspaper emphasizes.
Epstein, who took his life in a prison cell in New York in 2019 while awaiting trial, exploited hundreds of minors sexually over more than a decade, according to the authorities, and targeted vulnerable girls as young as 14 years old.
His accomplice and friend Ghislaine Maxwell has been called to a committee hearing in Congress on August 11. She is serving a 20-year prison sentence for helping the financier to sexually exploit minors.
