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4 days agoJUST IN: Pam Bondi Won't Appear for Scheduled Epstein Deposition After DOJ Ouster
Pam Bondi will not attend a deposition regarding Jeffrey Epstein files due to no longer being Attorney General.
In a deposition last Friday before the House Oversight Committee, the former president said he could recall sending only two emails in his entire life. He said he sent an email to former US senator John Glenn when the former NASA astronaut was "in space at age 77" and an email to US military members aboard a ship in the Adriatic Sea during the Kosovo War.
In an eight-page order released on Tuesday, US District Judge Theodore Chuang rejected a request from Musk and officials linked to the Department of Government Efficiency to forgo a deposition. It ordered him, along with former acting USAID director Peter Marocco and Department of State official Jeremy Lewin, to be deposed. Musk's legal team had tried to use the "apex doctrine" to avoid the deposition, a rule that allows high-ranking government officials to avoid depositions in some situations.
A protester holds a sign behind Ghislaine Maxwell's Miami defense attorney David O. Markus outside the federal courthouse in Tallahassee, Florida, on Friday, July 25, 2025. Markus is representing Maxwell, who is serving a 20-year prison sentence in Tallahassee after being convicted for recruiting underage girls to engage in illegal sex acts with Jeffrey Epstein. Maxwell was deposed on Thursday and Friday by Todd Blanche, a top Justice Department official. USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images
Why were these people on the topic? Well, allegedly when Baldoni met with a then-"very pregnant" (his words) Lively to convince her to do the film, they discussed whether or not she would circumcise her fourth child. In the process, he told his soon-to-be co-worker (along with her husband, Ryan Reynolds, and a handful of other staff in the room) that he himself was circumcised.
Dr. Kevin O'Connor exited a deposition after citing federally protected doctor-patient privilege and pleading the Fifth Amendment, declining to discuss Biden's health.