A Democratic congressman who sits on the House Oversight Committee alleged on CNN the night before Pam Bondi's deposition that Donald Trump's name runs throughout the Epstein investigative files, and that Bondi privately told the president he appears in them tens of thousands of times.
Rep. Wesley Bell of Missouri, a former prosecutor, made the allegation during a CNN News Central interview with anchor Kate Bolduan on 28 May 2026, less than 24 hours before former Attorney General Pam Bondi was due to appear before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform for a transcribed deposition into the Justice Department's handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files. The deposition will not be under oath.
