A rising refrain of MAGA stars, together with firebrand Megyn Kelly, are calling for US Lawyer Normal Pam Bondi‘s head over the Jeffrey Epstein files controversy — despite President Trump’s spirited protection of her.
Kelly, a former Fox Information host, repeatedly railed in opposition to Bondi throughout a Turning Level USA summit in Tampa Bay on Friday, and later stored up her searing critique of the AG even after Trump leaped to her protection.
“I’m sure it’s a relief for Pam Bondi to hear the president is still in her corner,” Kelly swiped on X.
“Unfortunately, huge swaths of the party are not. She repeatedly misled on Epstein. Then didn’t have the courage to explain herself. Suddenly, she’s camera shy & no Qs allowed. Good luck!”
“There are really only two options,” the political commentator and host of The Megyn Kelly Present continued in an X rant.
“1. There’s no huge undisclosed there there on Epstein, Bondi misled on it (until she didn’t) & Trump is quick to forgive a loyal soldier for being desperate to get on TV; or 2. There is a scandal that’s being covered up & it’s at his direction,” she concluded.
Again in February, beneath Bondi’s watch, the Justice Division turned over “phase one” of the Epstein information to a slew of MAGA influencers. Critics shortly complained that the paperwork principally featured info that had already been accessible.
Earlier this 12 months, Bondi was additionally requested by Fox Information in regards to the DOJ “releasing the list of Jeffrey Epstein’s clients,” and she or he replied that “it’s sitting on my desk right now to review.”
The White Home has since claimed that she was really referencing the “entirety of all of the paperwork and relation to Jeffrey Epstein.”
Final week, the DOJ and FBI launched a memo on the Epstein paperwork concluding that there isn’t any proof that such a consumer listing existed, one thing that had been reported by a number of media retailers years in the past.
The Feds additionally disclosed surveillance footage close to the disgraced financier’s New York jail cell across the time of his dying, however a lacking minute in that video additional fueled suspicions that one thing was awry.
Amid the controversy, FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino clashed with Bondi and contemplated quitting if she stays on as AG, The Put up beforehand reported.
Kelly, who labored with Bongino throughout her Fox Information days and is pals with him, argued that Trump ought to stick together with her ex-colleague and dump Bondi.
“Dan understands MAGA. Dan is part of the MAGA movement,” Kelly stated throughout a panel session with Turning Level USA founder Charlie Kirk on Friday.
The previous Fox Information host surmised that Trump isn’t “focused” on the Epstein drama, however he needs to be given “it’s starting to create a real hornet’s nest” for him.
“This is the first big scandal, I’d say, of the Trump administration that’s on team, rational, it’s not a fake media scandal like the left tries to create for President Trump, every other day,” she stated.
“It’s one of the right’s making, and it’s not going well,” she bluntly concluded at one other level.
“I’ve got to be honest, I blame Pam Bondi,” she added.
“She has never missed an opportunity to go on television and dangle sweet nothings that might be coming your way. Try to lead you to believe that she’s got it, it’s on her desk. It’s coming tomorrow. You’re gonna see something on Epstein.”
Kelly additionally blasted Bondi for not giving a press convention on the Epstein controversy, and underscored that “her words on the record on Fox News are diametrically opposed to what she put in this memo.”
Bondi has largely stored a low profile because the MAGA drama over Epstein has reached a fever pitch. However her boss delivered a spirited protection of her and blamed Obama and Biden administration period officers for tarnishing the information.
Different prime darlings of the MAGA motion equally piled onto the revolt in opposition to Bondi, however had been cautious about roping in Trump.
Former White Home Chief Strategist, turned “War Room” host, Steve Bannon, known as for a deeper overhaul of the DOJ and FBI in response to the Epstein storm.
“Yes, you could have Dan Bongino or Pam Bondi resign and make a scene, but that just creates turmoil,” he stated on the Turning Level USA summit.
“What we need right now is not to upend DOJ or FBI. We need to get to the bottom of Epstein. Because Epstein is the key that picks the lock.”
Proper-wing pundit Tucker Carlson sensationally advised on his podcast final week that the present DOJ beneath Pam Bondi “is covering up crimes, very serious crimes by their own description.”
Kirk, in the meantime, stated Bondi is humiliating MAGA influencers with the run-around.
“Pam Bondi brought in some of our best influencers, Jack Posobiec, Libs of TikTok,” Kirk complained throughout his dialogue with Kelly Friday.
“And she gave them these [Epstein] binders. And she humiliated them.”
Amid the deluge of backlash, Bondi has largely remained quiet within the public eye.
Trump jumped to her protection on Saturday and lashed out at supporters who’ve turned in opposition to her.
“They’re all going after Attorney General Pam Bondi, who is doing a FANTASTIC JOB! We’re on one Team, MAGA, and I don’t like what’s happening. We have a PERFECT Administration,” Trump raged on Reality Social.
“For years, it’s Epstein, over and over again. Why are we giving publicity to Files written by Obama, Crooked Hillary, Comey, Brennan, and the Losers and Criminals of the Biden Administration,” he added.
“They created the Epstein Files, just like they created the FAKE Hillary Clinton/Christopher Steele Dossier that they used on me, and now my so-called ‘friends’ are playing right into their hands.”
