Attorney General Pam Bondi on Wednesday faced one of her most ruthless public hearings since her confirmation last year, as Democrats demonized the Department of Justice’s Epstein files release efforts.

Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) began his questioning of Bondi with lofty accusations, saying she had been “abandoning victims and coddling perpetrators,” referencing relatives of the late Virginia Giuffre, one of the first whistleblowers and victims of Epstein, seated behind the attorney general. He urged her not to “waste one second” of the committee’s time, which was attended by at least 11 victims of the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.