President Trump can't seem to shake the Jeffrey Epstein plague ... because U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi got into a fiery exchange over the "Epstein Files" with a senator during a congressional hearing.

Bondi faced off Tuesday with the Senate Judiciary Committee and, when it came time for Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) to ask questions of the AG, things got really heated really fast! Gallery Launch Gallery Getty

Check out video ... which shows perhaps the most heated back-and-forth during their 11-minute-plus confrontation. Whitehouse earlier kicked off the questioning by asking Bondi how many "suspicious activity reports" related to Trump-Epstein her team has investigated.

Bondi sidestepped the question ... suggesting Whitehouse might have asked it because he's c

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