Washington, April 2 -- Congressman Cleo Fields issued the following press release:
Today, Congressman Cleo Fields released the following statement in response to the firing of Attorney General Pam Bondi:
"Today's news that President Trump has fired Attorney General Pam Bondi is deeply troubling - not because of who is leaving, but because of why.
I have been deeply critical of Attorney General Bondi's handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files. She stood before the American people and falsely claimed that an Epstein client list was sitting on her desk. The Department of Justice (DOJ) later walked that back entirely. That was not a misstatement - it was a failure of transparency that shook public trust at a moment when Americans deserved strai...