The top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee has accused Attorney General Pam Bondi of pressuring the FBI to redirect 1,000 employees to comb through 100,000 documents related to Jeffrey Epstein to flag any mentions of President Donald Trump.

Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., wrote in letters Friday to Bondi, FBI Director Kash Patel, and FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino that “according to information my office received,” FBI investigators tasked with reviewing the documents “were instructed to ‘flag’ any records in which President Trump was mentioned,” media outlets reported.

Durbin asserted that it was part of a broader “haphazard” FBI review of documents related to the convicted sex offender that took place in March.

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