President Donald Trump’s Make America Nice Once more motion is on the lookout for a scapegoat as its members rage in regards to the Trump administration’s Sunday announcement that there aren’t any bombshell recordsdata about convicted intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein.
It seems they’ve landed on Legal professional Common Pam Bondi.
Axios reported that FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino—who unfold Epstein conspiracy theories as a podcaster earlier than Trump appointed him to the function he’s unqualified to carry—”took a day off from work” on Friday as a result of he was so mad at Bondi.
CNN reported that Bongino is contemplating resigning, whereas one supply advised Axios they consider Bongino might have already give up.
FBI Deputy Direct Dan Bongino, proven in 2020, earlier than assuming that function.
“He ain’t coming back,” a “source close to Bongino” advised Axios.
Bongino is reportedly mad that Bondi publicly overhyped the supposed Epstein shopper listing, which Trump’s Division of Justice now says doesn’t exist.
In the meantime, right-wing influencer and famous bigot Laura Loomer—who has Trump’s ear—additionally claimed on X that FBI Director Kash Patel is “LIVID” with Bondi “over her DOJ Memo and the lack of transparency from her office regarding the Jeffery Epstein files.”
Bondi did seem to mislead the American individuals when she mentioned in February that she had Epstein’s shopper listing “sitting on my desk proper now to assessment,” solely to confess on Sunday that no such listing exists.
This isn’t the primary time Bondi has discovered herself in scorching water over the so-called Epstein recordsdata.
Bondi got here beneath fireplace in February after she staged an embarrassing stunt on the White Home by which she gave MAGA influencers binders whose covers had been labeled “The Epstein Recordsdata, Section 1,” just for these binders to carry just about no new data.
However the newest Epstein recordsdata debacle is sending MAGA right into a tailspin as they attempt to come to phrases with the truth that the Trump administration is telling them that the conspiracy theories they’ve pushed for years are false.
“The Trump admin’s handling of the Epstein files has been a massive unforced error,” CNN’s Harry Enten mentioned Friday. “Trump may wish it goes away, but Google searches for Epstein are up 1,200% this week. It’s the top topic searched with Trump today. More have Googled Epstein this week than Grok or tariffs.”
Trump, for his half, has tried to downplay all the matter round Epstein and his supposed recordsdata. At a Cupboard assembly earlier this week, Trump snapped at a reporter who tried to ask in regards to the Epstein recordsdata, “Are you continue to speaking about Jeffrey Epstein? This man’s been talked about for years.”
“At a time like this, where we’re having some of the greatest success and also tragedy with what happened in Texas, it just seems like a desecration,” he added.
However since MAGA can by no means activate its Pricey Chief, it now appears like they’ve landed on Bondi as their scapegoat.
We’ll see how lengthy she lasts within the administration.
