Attorney General Pam Bondi's toughest days on the job may still be to come, according to a new report.
Politico spoke with multiple Republicans who were granted anonymity to discuss matters on Capitol Hill. Three Republicans told the outlet that Bondi may find herself at the mercy of a scorned GOP conference because of how she handled the Jeffrey Epstein files when lawmakers return to Washington, D.C. in September.
"She is in for a rough September at the very least,” said one House Republican.
“She has very little time to turn this around,” another Republican told Politico.
Bondi has recently come under fire because her office issued a memo about the Epstein case that the MAGA base disagreed with. The memo concluded that Epstein died by suicide in jail and that he didn't keep logs of his clients. Those two points contradict what Bondi and other Trump surrogates told their base about Epstein for years after his first administration.
Then, the Wall Street Journal reported that Bondi briefed Trump in May about his name appearing in the Epstein files. This caused some of Bondi's loudest critics to increase their calls for her removal.
“I think she, from pillar to post, handled this thing so badly and bizarrely,” a Republican told Politico.“It was tough to watch the whole thing. We were just like ‘What the f--- are they doing over there,’"
