Disgrace: Pam Bondi's Searing Contempt for Epstein Survivors
The searing image of Pam Bondi's tenure is her looking the other direction while a phalanx of survivors was behind her, Lisa Rubin said Friday morning.
Pam Bondi will be remembered for her cruelty to Epstein survivors to protect Donald Trump, MS Now Senior Legal reporter Lisa Rubin said Friday morning.
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The predictably fired Bondi’s impact on the Department of Justice reads like a laundry list of corruption, having effectively turned it into a private law firm for the convicted felon who occupies the White House while decimating the Foreign Influence Task Force and the National Security Division and undermining the Antitrust Division. But perhaps her most memorable sin will be her cruel treatment of the Epstein survivors to protect Trump, including compromising the safety and privacy of Epstein survivors.
“…Pam Bondi, looking the other direction, while a phalanx of survivors was behind her, raising their hand to indicate that they had never been communicated with by the Department of Justice, and Pam Bondi never could bring herself to turn around and look them in the eyes… that to me, is a searing image of Pam Bondi’s tenure at the Department of Justice,” MS Now Senior Legal reporter Lisa Rubin said on Morning Joe Friday morning.
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Rubin: Pam Bondi sort of made a mockery of herself, and in particular, made a mockery of the Epstein files Transparency Act process, but it was an own goal. And the reason it was an own goal is because Pam Bondi herself sort of worked up the MAGA base into a frenzy and a lather, starting last February, when she said she had the client list on her desk ready to review. She then directed and undertook a massive internal review involving FBI agents working round the clock to review the Epstein files all through last spring. And it was only in May of last year that public reporting indicates that she and Todd Blanche went to the President and basically said, ‘Hey, boss, your name is all over this stuff,’ and that's how we found ourselves with a memo unsigned by anyone and last July saying, ‘Look, we are not going to release anything more, because we don't think there's anything else here on which we could predicate a responsible investigation.’ That obviously rang hollow with not only their base, but with people all over this country.
