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Angry Democratic lawmakers moved to impeach Attorney General Pam Bondi on Wednesday after she walked out of a closed-door briefing on the Jeffrey Epstein files.

California congressman Robert Garcia called the briefing an “outrageous mock trial” after Bondi refused to comply with a subpoena to testify under oath.

The committee voted earlier this month to subpoena Bondi, and five Republicans joined Democrats in demanding that the attorney general answer questions about the justice department’s failure to properly release federal investigative files into Epstein.

“It’s setting a record,” Democratic representative Suhas Subramanyam, a member of the Oversight Committee, told Axios.

“He actually held a mock hearing under the guise of a briefing, defied subpoenas we had previously issued, and then continued to be evasive and combative with us.”

Rep. Summer Lee said she filed articles of impeachment “because [Bondi] he is already obstructing justice.” Lee became the second Democrat this month to file articles of impeachment against Bondi, following Shri Thanedar.

Democratic representatives Yassamin Ansari and Rashida Tlaib are co-sponsors, while Lateefah Simon has expressed support for the measure.

Bondi and deputy attorney general Todd Blanche traveled to Capitol Hill on Wednesday to vent bipartisan frustration over the Justice Department’s handling of millions of files related to the Epstein sex trafficking investigation. But less than an hour before the briefing, Democrats walked out to protest the regulation.

Florida congressman Maxwell Alejandro Frost speaking outside the hearing room in question:

We asked him many times, will you come and talk to us under oath? He didn’t say yes. Bandit, bandit, bandit doesn’t say yes.

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