Once again, I lament the metaphorical nature of headlines.
So disappointing to discover they aren’t literal.
Especially all those “explodes” or “melts down” headlines.
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>Attorney General Pam Bondi has struggled to explain Donald Trump’s dramatic U-turn on the Epstein files after she enraged MAGA earlier this year by declaring there was nothing left to probe or disclose.
>Facing a “deluge” of Republicans prepared to break ranks to release the files, the president embarked on a major reversal this week, telling his party to vote in favor of a transparency bill that he will now sign into law.
>In a bid to deflect the firestorm he has faced for most of the year, Trump also ordered Bondi to investigate Democrats who were once associated with the convicted child sex offender, including former President Bill Clinton, LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman, and former Harvard President Larry Summers. All three have denied knowing about Epstein’s heinous crimes.
>Trump’s flip-flopping on the Epstein scandal is awkward for the attorney general, partly because of a contentious memo her department released in July declaring that “no further disclosure would be appropriate or warranted” and “we did not uncover evidence that could predicate an investigation against uncharged third parties.”
>Asked on Wednesday what had changed, Bondi struggled to explain the dramatic reversal.
>“Information that has come for, um, information. There’s new information, additional information,” she said, not explaining exactly what new information she had.
>“We will continue to follow the law to investigate any leads.”
>The DOJ memo seeking quash the Epstein saga was released on July 6, as Trump was under increasing pressure to fulfill a promise he’d repeatedly made to his MAGA base: to release the files. He now insists the issue is a Democratic “hoax” designed to detract from his achievements.
>The memo enraged his base, with many taking aim at Bondi, particularly after she claimed in February that the files were “sitting on my desk” and then invited right-wing influencers to a White House photo-op where they received binders of documents containing information that was essentially already in the public domain.
>The DOJ memo also said that a review by the department “found no basis to revisit the disclosure” of troves of material related to Epstein’s crime and “revealed no incriminating ‘client list’.”
>“There was also no credible evidence found that Epstein blackmailed prominent individuals as part of his actions. We did not uncover evidence that could predicate an investigation against uncharged third parties,” the memo added.
>On Wednesday, however, Bondi called for victims to come forward if they had any information.
>Congress has also rushed through a bill to release the files after months of refusing to do so, but when exactly that will happen remains a mystery.
>The legislation calls for Bondi to release “all unclassified records, documents, communications, and investigative materials” held by the Justice Department, FBI, and each U.S. Attorney’s Office related to Epstein and his accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell within 30 days.
>It also calls for files to be released that relate to individuals and entities “with known or alleged ties to the trafficking or financial networks of Jeffrey Epstein.”
>But it also states that Bondi can withhold or redact documents that would jeopardize an active federal investigation or prosecution, or contain information “specifically authorized under criteria established by an Executive order to be kept secret.”
>Asked multiple times on Wednesday how her department would handle releasing the files, Bondi simply repeated: “We will follow the law”.
>It is not clear what this could mean for the investigation into Democrats that Trump ordered, which critics fear could be used to withhold information.
>Bondi has appointed Jay Clayton, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, to lead that investigation.
>As revealed in the Daily Beast’s newsletter The Swamp, Trump’s first-term attorney general Bill Barr tried to shoehorn Clayton into the Southern District of New York in 2020, as they sought to push out top prosecutor Geoffrey Berman, who happened to be circling Trump allies like Rudy Giuliani and Steve Bannon at the time.
>When that failed, Clayton was appointed to the board of Apollo Global by Trump ally Leon Black, who was also an Epstein associate who paid the sex offender roughly $170 million, for “tax and estate planning” advice.
>While Black has denied knowing anything about Epstein’s industrial-scale sex trafficking, a 2023 settlement with the U.S. Virgin Islands attorney general shows Black admitted that the money he paid Epstein was used, in part, to “fund [Epstein’s] operations.”
>Clayton was eventually appointed as the top prosecutor for the Southern District of New York in April this year.
MysteriousPepper8908 on
I guarantee if he ever leaves office, she’s going on a tell-all redemption book tour for all the bad shit she was “forced” to do like Cohen and the Mooch and all the other worms that were happy to dismantle this country while they were on Trump’s payroll.
archdukemovies on
She just repeated her talking points:
* Follow the law [when it’s convenient for Dear Leader]
* Maximum transparency [after we redact and edit the documents]
* Protect the victims [i.e. the elite rich who has bribed and propped up Dear Leader]
SAJ-13 on
She should never have taken the payoff in the Trump University fraud case.
heekma on
This will be exactly like Mueller’s report, carfefully presented in a way that allows a whisper of smoke, no smoking gun and a collection of dots-with just enough dots missing-that anyone with a brain can infer the truth but gives enough plausible deniability to cover Trump.
Everyone seems to have forgotten one of the most important reasons Trump has evaded criminal responsibility is he was trained to think like a criminal by Roy Cohn, meaning no paper trails, no incriminating phone calls, everything by word of mouth and coded to convey a specific meaning but difficult to prove otherwise.
Trump and Epstein met in 1990 and palled around for about 15 years before having a falling out.
1990 Trump wasn’t 2025 Trump. He was still on his A game of being shady as fuck.
My thoughts about his resistance to releasing the files isn’t because there’s undeniable proof of criminal behavior, back then he was too careful to allow that to happen, but something much more banal and befitting of Trump, which is embarrassing facts or stories that would bruise his ego.
Interesting_Play_578 on
It’s going to be weird if they wind up just releasing references to Republicans and other MAGA allies because Trump only demanded investigations of his enemies.
Ohuigin on
Let’s not fucking forget who was the AG in Florida when all of this child raping and trafficking was going on…
She’s covering her own complicit ass just as much as Trump’s. it wouldn’t surprise me *IN THE LEAST* if that was part of why she was selected.
almighty_smiley on
I’ve been put on the spot by the teacher in grade school after not doing the homework and delivered better responses than Bondi did today.
Auger217 on
100% Trump Administration Corruption! It’s hope Bondi is prosecuted for obstruction of justice and placed in a prison cell. Apparently she hasn’t quit comprehended that Trump will throw her under the bus.
FitWrap1959 on
If you’ve ever wondered what it’s like to sit on a fence post that some dumbass left standing with the pointy end up, just look at Kash Patel’s face.
FFS.
“Information that has come for, um, information. There’s new information, additional information,” she said, not explaining exactly what new information she had.
This is the worst and yet somehow here we are.
Wabi-Sabi_Umami on
She’s gonna need a bigger bottle of Xanax.
1WY8UGT on
“I’ve got information man…new shit has come to light…”
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Once again, I lament the metaphorical nature of headlines.
So disappointing to discover they aren’t literal.
Especially all those “explodes” or “melts down” headlines.
>Attorney General Pam Bondi has struggled to explain Donald Trump’s dramatic U-turn on the Epstein files after she enraged MAGA earlier this year by declaring there was nothing left to probe or disclose.
>Facing a “deluge” of Republicans prepared to break ranks to release the files, the president embarked on a major reversal this week, telling his party to vote in favor of a transparency bill that he will now sign into law.
>In a bid to deflect the firestorm he has faced for most of the year, Trump also ordered Bondi to investigate Democrats who were once associated with the convicted child sex offender, including former President Bill Clinton, LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman, and former Harvard President Larry Summers. All three have denied knowing about Epstein’s heinous crimes.
>Trump’s flip-flopping on the Epstein scandal is awkward for the attorney general, partly because of a contentious memo her department released in July declaring that “no further disclosure would be appropriate or warranted” and “we did not uncover evidence that could predicate an investigation against uncharged third parties.”
>Asked on Wednesday what had changed, Bondi struggled to explain the dramatic reversal.
>“Information that has come for, um, information. There’s new information, additional information,” she said, not explaining exactly what new information she had.
>“We will continue to follow the law to investigate any leads.”
>The DOJ memo seeking quash the Epstein saga was released on July 6, as Trump was under increasing pressure to fulfill a promise he’d repeatedly made to his MAGA base: to release the files. He now insists the issue is a Democratic “hoax” designed to detract from his achievements.
>The memo enraged his base, with many taking aim at Bondi, particularly after she claimed in February that the files were “sitting on my desk” and then invited right-wing influencers to a White House photo-op where they received binders of documents containing information that was essentially already in the public domain.
>The DOJ memo also said that a review by the department “found no basis to revisit the disclosure” of troves of material related to Epstein’s crime and “revealed no incriminating ‘client list’.”
>“There was also no credible evidence found that Epstein blackmailed prominent individuals as part of his actions. We did not uncover evidence that could predicate an investigation against uncharged third parties,” the memo added.
>On Wednesday, however, Bondi called for victims to come forward if they had any information.
>Congress has also rushed through a bill to release the files after months of refusing to do so, but when exactly that will happen remains a mystery.
>The legislation calls for Bondi to release “all unclassified records, documents, communications, and investigative materials” held by the Justice Department, FBI, and each U.S. Attorney’s Office related to Epstein and his accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell within 30 days.
>It also calls for files to be released that relate to individuals and entities “with known or alleged ties to the trafficking or financial networks of Jeffrey Epstein.”
>But it also states that Bondi can withhold or redact documents that would jeopardize an active federal investigation or prosecution, or contain information “specifically authorized under criteria established by an Executive order to be kept secret.”
>Asked multiple times on Wednesday how her department would handle releasing the files, Bondi simply repeated: “We will follow the law”.
>It is not clear what this could mean for the investigation into Democrats that Trump ordered, which critics fear could be used to withhold information.
>Bondi has appointed Jay Clayton, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, to lead that investigation.
>As revealed in the Daily Beast’s newsletter The Swamp, Trump’s first-term attorney general Bill Barr tried to shoehorn Clayton into the Southern District of New York in 2020, as they sought to push out top prosecutor Geoffrey Berman, who happened to be circling Trump allies like Rudy Giuliani and Steve Bannon at the time.
>When that failed, Clayton was appointed to the board of Apollo Global by Trump ally Leon Black, who was also an Epstein associate who paid the sex offender roughly $170 million, for “tax and estate planning” advice.
>While Black has denied knowing anything about Epstein’s industrial-scale sex trafficking, a 2023 settlement with the U.S. Virgin Islands attorney general shows Black admitted that the money he paid Epstein was used, in part, to “fund [Epstein’s] operations.”
>Clayton was eventually appointed as the top prosecutor for the Southern District of New York in April this year.
I guarantee if he ever leaves office, she’s going on a tell-all redemption book tour for all the bad shit she was “forced” to do like Cohen and the Mooch and all the other worms that were happy to dismantle this country while they were on Trump’s payroll.
She just repeated her talking points:
* Follow the law [when it’s convenient for Dear Leader]
* Maximum transparency [after we redact and edit the documents]
* Protect the victims [i.e. the elite rich who has bribed and propped up Dear Leader]
She should never have taken the payoff in the Trump University fraud case.
This will be exactly like Mueller’s report, carfefully presented in a way that allows a whisper of smoke, no smoking gun and a collection of dots-with just enough dots missing-that anyone with a brain can infer the truth but gives enough plausible deniability to cover Trump.
Everyone seems to have forgotten one of the most important reasons Trump has evaded criminal responsibility is he was trained to think like a criminal by Roy Cohn, meaning no paper trails, no incriminating phone calls, everything by word of mouth and coded to convey a specific meaning but difficult to prove otherwise.
Trump and Epstein met in 1990 and palled around for about 15 years before having a falling out.
1990 Trump wasn’t 2025 Trump. He was still on his A game of being shady as fuck.
My thoughts about his resistance to releasing the files isn’t because there’s undeniable proof of criminal behavior, back then he was too careful to allow that to happen, but something much more banal and befitting of Trump, which is embarrassing facts or stories that would bruise his ego.
It’s going to be weird if they wind up just releasing references to Republicans and other MAGA allies because Trump only demanded investigations of his enemies.
Let’s not fucking forget who was the AG in Florida when all of this child raping and trafficking was going on…
She’s covering her own complicit ass just as much as Trump’s. it wouldn’t surprise me *IN THE LEAST* if that was part of why she was selected.
I’ve been put on the spot by the teacher in grade school after not doing the homework and delivered better responses than Bondi did today.
100% Trump Administration Corruption! It’s hope Bondi is prosecuted for obstruction of justice and placed in a prison cell. Apparently she hasn’t quit comprehended that Trump will throw her under the bus.
If you’ve ever wondered what it’s like to sit on a fence post that some dumbass left standing with the pointy end up, just look at Kash Patel’s face.
She’s trash 🗑️
Maga is the pedo party.
[Maga defending trump](https://www.instagram.com/reel/DRIjO2rEd6I/?igsh=MWQ2dTNlYTgzeG1heQ==)
FFS.
“Information that has come for, um, information. There’s new information, additional information,” she said, not explaining exactly what new information she had.
This is the worst and yet somehow here we are.
She’s gonna need a bigger bottle of Xanax.
“I’ve got information man…new shit has come to light…”
[literal nazis ](https://youtu.be/-e3T3VHmEkg?si=jWHE4o2qz_7ccJZ4) support trump.
So nazis. Pedos. Thieves. Liars.
And the people who gleefully vote for nazis, pedos, thieves, and liars.
Wowie.
She looks older and more evil every day
Why has she not been disbarred?
aka Pedo Barbie
Blondie is going to declare all Epstein files that mention Trump to be classified.
Report gets released…Trump throws her under the bus and fires her for her handling of the investigation
Pam, you’ve got some shit on your nose.
Hey Pam, we want everything.
How is no one talking a out that Congress just called the attorney general a liar