Attorney General Pam Bondi is facing an avalanche of public scrutiny from both sides of the political aisle thanks to a blunder inside the Department of Justice (DOJ).
And it could cost Bondi her job, according to conservative star Megyn Kelly.
Kelly blasted Bondi on yesterday’s episode of Sirius XM’s “The Megyn Kelly Show” predicting that Bondi’s days in the Trump administration are “numbered” following public backlash over the DOJ’s new report on Jeffrey Epstein.
For weeks, Bondi has been teasing a bombshell breakthrough in the Epstein case, including a list of high-profile clients connected with the disgraced sex trafficker, who killed himself in prison.
However, this past Sunday the DOJ and FBI released a two-page memo that concluded Epstein committed suicide in 2019 and left behind no “client list”, fueling criticism that the Epstein report was a complete dud and that Bondi’s previous comments about the so-called breakthrough were nothing but a side show.
While discussing Republican criticism of the memo, a guest on “The Megyn Kelly Show” asked whether Bondi’s previous media comments are fueling the backlash.
“Just look at the influencer thing. Just take a step back,” Kelly said.
“What kind of an attorney general would pretend she’s giving new information to some of the president’s most loyal advocates in the press? You know, buying ink by the barrel. So either Pam Bondi knew she was about to embarrass some of his most loyal surrogates out there, and did that willingly, or she didn’t take the time to make sure what was in those binders. She was too lazy to actually figure out none of this is new.”
“And yet she called a meeting with the influencers that included Kash Patel the head of the FBI and the sitting vice president,” Kelly added.
“So she’s either lazy and incompetent or she willingly humiliated some of the president’s most loyal supporters. Neither one of those is good. And that’s why, I’m sorry, but I’m going to predict her days are numbered as a member of the Trump administration.”
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President Donald Trump pledged during his 2024 campaign to release Epstein’s files.
The administration faced backlash in February after handing a first wave of Epstein documents to conservative influencers — many of whom said the material lacked any real revelations or a so-called “client list.”
Bondi and her office teased a new breakthrough in the Epstein case in March when she told Fox News’ Sean Hannity that thousands of Epstein-related files had been withheld from the FBI and that the documents would get released after undergoing redactions and with explanations provided for each one.
“You’re looking at these documents going, ‘These aren’t all the Epstein files.’ There were flight logs. There were names, victims’ names, and we’re going ‘Where’s the rest of the stuff?’ That’s what the FBI had turned over to us,” Bondi said on Fox News.
“So a source said ‘Whoa, all this evidence is sitting in the Southern District of New York.’ So based on that, I gave them the deadline, Friday at 8, a truckload of evidence arrived.”
Epstein was arrested and charged with sex trafficking in 2019. Just over a month into his stay at the New York Metropolitan Correctional Center he was found dead in his cell.
After Epstein’s death, his longtime associate Ghislaine Maxwell was arrested in 2021 and later sentenced in June 2022 to 20 years in prison for her role in his crimes.
She was the only person held accountable in connection to his trafficking ring.