Why? The president campaigned on
Pam Bondi assured everyone the files
Cash Patel said the files will be given
to the public. And yet here we are.
Not a single bit of these files has been
released. And then what happened?
Well, we had over in the House
bipartisan leadership with Ro Con Kana
and Thomas Massie and a discharge
petition. And as the discharge petition
started to reach the critical number
required, the House went on eight weeks
of vacation in order to avoid releasing
these files. That's never happened in
And then we find as they were coming
what happened? An announcement that some
new investigations were being launched.
That was on November 14th.
And on the evening of the 18th, Senator
Schumer went to the floor, asked for
unanimous consent that the bill from the
House be deemed passed when it arrived
in the Senate, and unanimous consent was
secured from all to send this message.
And what happened the next day? Pam
Bondi gets up and says, "We have this
new information to justify new
The timing of that's awfully suspicious.
So the leaders in the House and the
Senate demanded a meeting. We wrote to
Pam Bondi, Ro Kana, Tom Massie,
Ben Ray Luhan, and we were joined and I
welcomed the bipartisanship of Senator
Mowski to say, "We want to know what
you're up to. meet with us and explain
these new investigations. What is this
new evidence? What are you undertaking?
And how are you setting forward a plan
to make sure all the documents are
released on the 30-day notice? We got a
The response was, "We acknowledge
receipt of your letter." That's it. So,
one of the things to watch for is the
argument that vast sections had to be
redacted in some cases to defend the
integrity of some newly invented
One way or another, we anticipate that
Trump is going to continue to hide the
files that should be released. We must
not let it happen. We must not let it
happen because we are about
accountability for the perpetrators and
justice for the victims. And that will
not happen unless there is transparency
and the documents are released in
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