Republican Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) called out the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) on Fox News Friday for its silence regarding the full release of deceased pedophile Jeffrey Epstein’s files, urging U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi to make the remaining documents public. Following the uneventful release of the first batch of The Epstein Files—a 100-plus-page document that contained little new information—Bondi announced Monday that the DOJ had received thousands of additional missing documents.
Appearing on Jesse Watters Primetime, Watters asked Luna, who leads the House Oversight Committee’s Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets, if she had any updates on when the remaining Epstein files would be made public. “I feel the same way that you do, Jesse. I’m very frustrated, just like many Americans are. I think that those lists need to be released to the American people. That’s really up to the decision of Attorney General Pam Bondi,” Luna said. “I can tell you that as a member of Congress, we have not really gotten much communication from the Department of Justice.”
“But we are going to be continuing to put pressure because when the American people elected President Trump, they demanded transparency. And frankly, it’s disturbing that more people aren’t in jail for the crimes that were committed for trafficking people,” Luna added. “That’s exactly what Jeffrey Epstein did. So I hope that she releases those files in entirety. I frankly hope that she brings charges because what happened should have never been acceptable, and people belong in jail.”
During a Fox News interview on Feb. 26, Bondi told Watters the public would begin to see “some” of Epstein’s files that were supposed to include “a lot of flight logs, a lot of names [and] a lot of information.” In 2019, Epstein was arrested and charged with sex trafficking, but he was found dead in his cell at the New York Metropolitan Correctional Center a month later. Bondi and the DOJ faced criticism online after conservative influencers obtained a binder labeled “The Epstein Files: Phase 1,” with some photographed smiling with the documents outside the West Wing.
The DOJ later issued a statement saying that despite Bondi’s request for the files, she had been “later informed of thousands of pages of documents related to the investigation and indictment of Epstein that were not previously disclosed.” By Monday, Bondi told Fox’s Sean Hannity that the DOJ officially received “a truckload of evidence,” adding the DOJ was combing through the documents. But at this point, it’s not clear when the DOJ will release the Epstein client list — or when the JFK and Martin Luther King files will be released, as Trump ordered.
