Judge Orders Urgent Response by Trump on Epstein Claims!

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2:27Michael Popok:District of Columbia Federal Judge Randy Moss wants to know where the Epstein client list is that Pam Bondi said was on her desk. This in a case that was filed by independent journalist Jimmy Tobias under the Freedom of Information Act request. That case was filed back in August, right at the moment that Pam Bondi went on Fox and said, it's sitting on my desk. And Jimmy said, it is. I would like to see it as part of a public records request. So back in December, Judge Moss ordered the Department of Justice and Pam Bondi to file a declaration to identify the client list and to provide it by the 6th of January.

3:14Michael Popok:They filed something. I wouldn't say it was responsive to the judge's order. And in a new hearing, he's now giving them another opportunity to explain where the client list is. And no, he's not going to allow the Department of Justice to point to the three million Epstein files that were just produced as a excuse for not complying with Freedom of Information Act request. I'm Michael Popak. You're here on the Midas Touch Network and on Legal AF. Let's get down to the new reporting. Back in August, Jimmy Tobias, an independent journalist, shout out to independent journalism, filed in the District of Columbia a complaint right after Pam Bondi made those now infamous words that will live to hang her.

4:06Michael Popok:Back in February of 2025, Pam Bondi told the American people that the client list was sitting on her desk. You remember the clip. Here it is.

4:16Jimmy Tobias:The DOJ may be releasing the list of Jeffrey Epstein's clients. Will that really happen?

4:22Pam Bondi:It's sitting on my desk right now to review. That's been a directive by President Trump. I'm reviewing that. I'm reviewing JFK files, MLK files. That's all in the process of being reviewed because that was done at the directive of the president from all of these agencies.

4:37Jimmy Tobias:So have you seen anything that you said, oh, my gosh?

4:41Pam Bondi:Not yet. I was asked a question about the client list and my response was, it's sitting on my desk to be reviewed, meaning the file along with the JFK, MLK files as well. That's what I meant by that. Also to the tens of thousands of video, they turned out to be child porn downloaded by that disgusting Jeffrey Epstein. Child porn is what they were. never going to be released, never going to see the light of day. To him being an agent, I have no knowledge about that. We can get back to you on that. And the minute missing from the video, we released the video showing definitively the video was not conclusive, but the evidence prior to it was showing he committed suicide.

5:34Michael Popok:So Jimmy Tobias filed a lawsuit. And here's what he asked for in his filing. He said on July 23rd, he submitted a FOIA request, Freedom of Information Act, to DOJ. It said, I seek all of the Epstein-related records that Bondi was referring to during the interview appearance, including the document or documents she was referring to when she stated, it is sitting on my desk right now, including the list of Jeffrey Epstein's clients that Bondi was asked about by the reporter. Okay. So that went through a process. See, Freedom of Information Act is a great procedure for groups like Democracy Forward, the ACLU, Midas Touch, Legal AF, Jimmy Tobias, to get the government to produce documents.

6:24Michael Popok:And you can't point to another process and say, oh, I'm going to produce them at a later time and you'll go have to hunt for them. No. That's why there's a number of Freedom of Information Act cases that still exist related to Epstein and the disclosure around the Epstein files, even with the disclosure of the Epstein files. Judge Chutkin has one related to Democracy Forward and communications directly between Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein. As an example, There's a case up at the Second Circuit Court of Appeals related to the parent company of the National Enquirer having made about five years ago an Epstein document request.

7:06Michael Popok:And now you've got Jimmy Tobias. So after this was filed, the judge, Judge Randy Moss, issued a order in January, sorry, in December of 2025 and told the Department of Justice that by January 6th, they needed to identify the documents and explain what was on Pam Bondi's desk. So this guy named Sean O 'Neill, and all of these documents are up on Legal AF Substack for you to read. Guy named Sean O 'Neill, Chief of Staff of the Office of Information Policy and responsible for responding to Freedom of Information Act request, filed what he did. And he said he went through the Department of Justice materials.

7:52Michael Popok:And on page four, he reveals the following in the filing. Based on the substance of the request, which you heard, they've determined that the OAG, the Office of the Attorney General, was the appropriate office to search. As a result of this search, OIP was informed, that's his organization, that there are no records responsive to plaintiff's requests for the list of Jeffrey Epstein's clients. Now remember, if they don't provide the list, I tell you who will. Survivors will. Lisa Phillips, a client of mine and an Epstein survivor, said as much on Capitol Hill that if they don't produce the client list, you know who will?

8:35Michael Popok:The couple of thousand Epstein survivors and victims who know who abused them, and they will provide the list. Here's a clip of Lisa Phillips.

8:43Pam Bondi:I would like to announce here today, us Epstein survivors have been discussing creating our own list. We know the names. Many of us were abused by them. Now, together as survivors, we will confidentially compile the names we all know, who are regularly in the Epstein world. And it will be done by survivors and for survivors. No one else is involved. Stay tuned for more details.

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11:26Michael Popok:And that's going to be required watching here on Midas Touch and Legal AF. We'll run it live. Now, we move to a court hearing in front of Judge Moss. And he said, listen, I'm not playing a game gotcha. He said, this is not sufficient. I want a Pam Bondi attorney general declaration identifying what the heck she was referring to when she said these client documents, Epstein files and client lists was sitting on her desk. That's all. And then once I know the answer to that, I'll decide whether the government has complied with its FOIA responsibilities yet. But I can't do that until you give me a proper declaration.

12:08Michael Popok:So no, Pam Bondi is not off the hook yet. And these are the same questions that the Senate Judiciary Committee, led by Senator Blumenthal, the House Democratic Judiciary Committee, led by ranking member Jamie Raskin for the Democrats. they're going to be asking her these hard questions. Where are the client lists? Where are the documents? Now, they've tried to constantly conflate and redefine the Epstein files in an elaborate shell game to hide them from the American people. First, the Department of Justice said, and Pam Bondi said, the files are on her desk, as you heard. Then they said, no, the files are with federal judges, and we got to go get federal judges.

12:53Michael Popok:We'd love to produce them, but the federal judges have to give us that permission. So they said, well, we have to go to Florida for some Epstein files, in New York for some Epstein files, and Ghislaine Maxwell's case and Epstein's case. And then when those federal judges said, we'll release what we have, but you have the giant pile of Epstein files, they then went to Congress and said, oh, we'd love to produce them, but Congress has to give us the permission, which is completely a non sequitur, completely a violation of separation of powers. The documents that we referred to as the Epstein files, which is everything in the executive branch, not just the Department of Justice, not just the FBI, has never resided with Congress, has always resided with the executive branch.

13:31Michael Popok:And the executive branch has never needed the congressional branch, the legislative branch, to give them permission to release the documents. That was just a ruse. That was just a charade that they tried to pull on the American people. We'd love to produce them, but we're waiting for Congress to give us the permission. So they wasted more time. Bad things are happening, make it happen slower. So they waited for the Epstein Transparency Act, and then they fought against it until Representatives Massey and Conner got 208 shamed effectively, five or six Republicans, into supporting and signing the 218 signatures that are required for the discharge petition to get the Epstein Act on the House floor for a vote.

14:14Michael Popok:And then everybody joined in but what? Delay, delay, delay, delay, delay. And still we don't have the things the Treasury Department has, like the Internal Revenue Service, bank records, how to track the money flow. We just have the DOJ and FBI files. But we've got these separate cases that I'm following for you here. The case in front of Judge Moss, brought by Jimmy Tobias. The case brought by Democracy Forward, in front of Judge Chutkin, for the communications between Epstein and Donald Trump, the case brought by the National Enquirer in the Second Circuit to get all the Epstein files. And you can see judges are not going to allow the Department of Justice to point to the three million, which is half or one tenth of the entire pile of Epstein documents and get away with it.

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