Megyn Kelly ripped into U.S. Legal professional Basic Pam Bondi on Friday, blaming her for the rising discord over the Trump administration’s dealing with of the Jeffrey Epstein case.
The previous Fox Information anchor characterised the backlash as the primary “big” scandal for President Donald Trump ― at the least for these on the correct.
“This is the first big scandal, I’d say, of the Trump administration that’s on Team Rational,” Kelly stated, talking on stage alongside MAGA persona Charlie Kirk at a Tampa occasion for Kirk’s group, Turning Level USA. “It’s not a fake media scandal like the left tries to create for President Trump every other day.”
Public backlash started brewing this week after the Division of Justice and FBI launched a memo asserting that they had discovered no proof that disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, a convicted intercourse offender who died whereas awaiting trial on intercourse trafficking costs, stored a “client list” or blackmailed influential individuals. The companies additionally stated there was no proof that Epstein, whose 2019 loss of life behind bars was dominated a suicide, was murdered.
The memo got here months after Bondi had appeared to verify the existence of an Epstein consumer checklist.
“It’s sitting on my desk right now to review,” she stated on Fox Information in February.
On Friday, Kelly requested the gang to “make some noise if you care about the Jeffrey Epstein scandal.” She was met with wild cheers from the attendees of the occasion, which was geared in the direction of younger conservatives.
Kelly prompt that Trump was not at fault for the controversy, speculating that the problem hasn’t “captured his attention quite yet.”
“I’ve gotta be honest,” Kelly advised the gang. “I blame Pam Bondi.”
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After stating that she has “nothing” towards Bondi “as a human being,” Kelly continued, “She is the reason that things are unraveling around this story right now that virtually all of the Republican party cares deeply about.”
She then accused Bondi of making an attempt to “tease” the general public with juicy guarantees in regards to the Epstein recordsdata.
“She has never missed an opportunity to go on television and dangle sweet nothings that might be coming your way. Try to lead you to believe that she’s got it, it’s on her desk, it’s coming tomorrow, you’re gonna see something on Epstein,” Kelly stated. “And it was a tease. So you either believe that Pam Bondi was telling the truth then or that she’s telling the truth now. But both cannot be true.”
