Pam Bondi Has ‘Won the Power Struggle’ Over Dan Bongino — Who Is Likely to Exit: CNN

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Attorney General Pam Bondi has “won the power struggle” over FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino amid blowback over the DOJ’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein probe, a new report reveals.

According to a CNN piece by Evan Perez, Hannah Rabinowitz and Kristen Holmes, unnamed Trump administration officials say the attorney general’s recent appointment of Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey to serve as co-deputy director of the FBI alongside Bongino is a sign that Bondi came out on top of the feud.

And further, Bailey’s appointment means that Bongino is likely to head for the exits, the Trump officials told CNN.

Bondi, who was omnipresent on Fox News for the first six months of the Trump administration, had gone radio silent amid the MAGA uproar following the DOJ’s announcement that the Epstein case was effectively closed without the public release of any further information. But in recent days, Bondi has been interviewed by Fox News host Sean Hannity, and Fox Business host Larry Kudlow — signaling that she believes the Epstein controversy is behind her.

“It’s over,” an unnamed conservative ally told CNN. “She made it through. She’s going to be fine.”

Numerous reports in early July indicated that Bondi and Bongino privately clashed over Epstein — with Bongino fiercely protesting Bondi’s decision not to release additional files by hightailing it out of Washington for several days.

Bondi allies told The New York Times that the attorney general felt Bongino had burned his bridges, and that his position was no longer tenable.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt seemed to take umbrage with the notion that Bongino is being cast aside — telling CNN that Bailey “has been brought on as another set of very credible and experienced hands to work alongside the current Deputy Director Dan Bongino, under the leadership of the director Kash Patel and the Attorney General Pam Bondi.”

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