Pam Bondi Attacks a Trump DOJ Whistleblower in Fiery Post: ‘We Support Legitimate Whistleblowers,’ But ‘He’s a Leaker’
Attorney General Pam Bondi is attacking a Justice Department whistleblower — declaring him to be illegitimate and dismissing him as a “leaker.”
In a fiery post to X, Bondi attacked DOJ whistleblower Erez Reuveni — who alleged in a formal complaint that senior DOJ official Emil Bove, in a March 14 meeting, suggested DOJ staff should disregard any court order that prevented migrant deportation flights from taking off. Bondi was responding to a New York Times interview with Reuveni, in which the whistleblower warned of Trump administration attacks on the rule of law.
“The Department of Justice is thumbing its nose at the courts, and putting Justice Department attorneys in an impossible position where they have to choose between loyalty to the agenda of the president and their duty to the court,” Reuveni told the Times.
Bondi attacked the man who is blowing the whistle on the department she oversees — alleging that Reuveni spoke out only to tank Bove’s confirmation to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
“We support legitimate whistleblowers, but this disgruntled employee is not a whistleblower — he’s a leaker asserting false claims seeking five minutes of fame, conveniently timed just before a confirmation hearing and a committee vote,” Bondi said.
The attorney general added, “No one was ever asked to defy a court order. This is another instance of misinformation being spread to serve a narrative that does not align with the facts. This ‘whistleblower’ signed 3 briefs defending DOJ’s position in this matter and his subsequent revisionist account arose only after he was fired because he violated his ethical duties to the department.”
Bondi has had a difficult week, coming under intense criticism from many leading MAGA influencers for effectively shutting down the DOJ probe on Jeffrey Epstein. The attorney general has been particularly singled out for criticism, given that she stated back in February that Epstein’s client list was sitting on her desk, but now denies it exists at all.
Bondi tried to mend fences on Wednesday by serving up some red meat to the base with the announcement, in an X post, of a lawsuit against the state of California for failing to enforce a ban on trans athletes. But the move didn’t go over well, as Bondi was pummeled by angry comments. And the same thing happened in response to Bondi’s post attacking the whistleblower — with many X users questioning her credibility over her handling of the Epstein probe.
