Attorney General Pam Bondi is caught in a bind because her Department of Justice has failed to successfully wage war on Donald Trump’s enemies at the same time that a handful of MAGA lawmakers have grown fed up with her handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files.
That double-whammy of dissatisfaction could mean her job security is tenuous at best.
Speaking with the hosts of “Morning Joe,“ NYT's Michael Schmidt said that Bondi has been effective at getting some law practices and colleges to bend to the president's will when threatened with lawsuits, but she has been a strikeout artist when it comes to targeted individuals.
Pointing to Trump’s Truth Social post where he publicly directed Bondi to pursue investigations against multiple individuals he believes wronged him, the Times reporter remarked, “The larger retribution campaign, while having a big impact on the law firms, having a big impact on higher education –– and I'm not diminishing what has happened to these individuals who have been indicted, and those people who have faced criminal scrutiny from the department –– but it has not been the clean kills, certainly, that Trump thought it would be in terms of being able to do unto others what was done unto him.”
Turning to a vote by House members to demand Bondi appear for a closed-door deposition on the Epstein files, MS NOW’s Jackie Alemany pointed to the number of Republicans who appear openly hostile to the Attorney General.
“It's really unclear, but there are around 50,000 documents that the Wall Street Journal reported yesterday that are missing from this dump of the Epstein files, which is why, in part, why you saw [South Carolina Republican] Nancy Mace introduce the move to subpoena and call in Pam Bondi yesterday,” she reported. “There were a number of Republicans who voted with Democrats on this: [Reps] Nancy Mace, Lauren Boebert, Tim Burchett, Michael Cloud, Scott Perry.”
“These are hardcore MAGA Trump supporters who feel that Pam Bondi's response has been wholly inadequate,” she observed. “It's unclear whether or not she's actually going to appear behind closed doors for a closed-door deposition, but if she doesn't, Congress has already signaled members on that committee that they're willing to pursue inherent contempt charges against Pam Bondi.”
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