‘Trainwreck!’ Megyn Kelly and MAGA Influencer Embarrassed at Epstein Binder Flop Torch Pam Bondi

Megyn Kelly and MAGA commentator Liz Wheeler took turns beating up on Attorney General Pam Bondi over her handling of the Jeffrey Epstein case on Thursday, with Wheeler referring to a much-maligned White House event at which she and other influencers were handed binders that read “The Epstein Files: Phase 1” as a “trainwreck.”

Wheeler recalled that after her visit to the White House for the February event, photos of her and her peers started “to catch fire online, and it starts to look like the trainwreck unfolding before my eyes that it was.”

Kelly then told Wheeler that she viewed the group of influencers as “a bunch of innocent victims of the whole thing.”

“I think this is a very loyal group to the president,” mused Kelly. “So there’s no way this White House would willingly want to embarrass this group. So they’ve invited them to the White House, clearly. They’ve given them these binders that read, you know, ‘Epstein file.’ They’ve allowed them to be photographed holding the binders, and those photos hit the internet. And then within, you know, a very short time after the photos hit the internet was, I don’t even remember how it came out, but it was like, there’s nothing new in there. There’s nothing new, there’s nothing new. And then the narrative kind of caught hold like, well, they’ve been like embarrassed. They’ve been embarrassed because now here they are holding up the binders, and there’s nothing new.”

“Even hearing you, I’m like, why would Pam Bondi, if she said to you even at the time, ‘There’s nothing great in here, but I’m waiting on additional documents I just found out about, and I’ll give you those.’ Why wouldn’t, like, why would she go through the exercise of the binders, which anybody would know, had the potential to embarrass you? Why would you ever wanna hold something up, you know, as like exciting if it was all old news,” she continued. “That’s like a sin of journalism. Every journalist knows you don’t want to tout something as big that’s literally old news. And to this moment, I don’t understand, Liz, whether it’s because Pam Bondi was negligent in making sure like what’s exactly in this binder, and does she know there’s actually nothing new, you’re about to humiliate people who care about you? Or because she had some other motive? I don’t know.”

“The only part of the story that I didn’t tell that day was the part about Pam Bondi bragging about making that cover sheet. And maybe I should have told that right then and there, because maybe that would have made it obvious that Pam Bondi should have been fired on the spot for what she did,” replied Wheeler.

“The only explanation that I can think of, and this is an explanation that is based on a pattern of Pam Bondi’s behavior, is that she wasn’t telling the truth. Not necessarily because she’s corrupt and trying to hide the contents of the Epstein files. But because she’s clickthirsty, because she was more interested in making these big promises on Fox News, being a Fox News star and a MAGA champion, and she got out over her skis, promising things that she hadn’t verified. And that’s the root of-, this week I said, ‘Listen, if I’m President Trump, I am looking at what Attorney General Pam Bondi has done to the base. He has lost-, his administration, even though he had nothing to do with this, his administration has lost a tremendous amount of goodwill with voters because people care viscerally about the Epstein files. They care deeply about this, partially because these are grisly crimes that were committed against children, but also because this represents justice,” she continued.

“And people feel stung because what they see when they when they see what Pam Bondi said in that Department of Justice memo on Sunday, she is telling us, ‘Ignore the evidence, the anomalies, the suspicious, fishy things surrounding Epstein’s operation, and his person, and his connections, and his death, and instead believe me, without evidence,'” she added. “She’s telling us to ignore what’s before our very eyes, and believe her instead with no evidence. And Megyn, there is not a politician in this world that you should extend that amount of blind faith toward.”

“Well, she’s put us in a position of having to decide which of her statements we’re going to credit. I mean, which one should we put the faith in?” asked Kelly rhetorically. “Because we kind of put the faith in the statement from February 21st, and then the statement she followed up with on February 26th, and the statement she followed with on March 3rd. And then the statement she followed up with on May 7th, all of which kept spinning this tale of, ‘I’ve got the goods, I’m getting even more goods, you’re gonna see the goods.'”

The host concluded by also dinging President Donald Trump for his attempt to move on from the subject at a Cabinet meeting earlier this week:

And then instead of coming out on camera, Sunday night or Monday, when she purportedly realized there was absolutely no there there other than the child pornography found on his computer not involving third parties, like other than you know, Jeffrey Epstein’s predilection of, you know, disgusting, random porn, and saying, “I got it wrong. I overpromised, and I’m underdelivering, and I am sorry,” she leaked to Axios a two-page unsigned memo with absolutely no explanation, none whatsoever, and literally thinks that’s enough.

And then unfortunately, we had the Cabinet meeting where Trump seemed fine with all of that, where he kind of stepped in, was like, “Why are we still talking about this thing” that I talked about repeatedly on the campaign trail, and did tell you was an issue that we needed to get to the bottom of, and that I would. And then elevated two guys who talked about it all the time on their shows, Kash Patel and Dan Bongino, to run the FBI, the very organization that was at the heart of the investigation, and another person, Pam Bondi, who once I put in the office, has been talking about it every other week, and now looks at us and says, “Why would you still be interested in this? Do you even want to answer that question?” And Pam Bondi thinks she’s putting it under the rug by being like, “Oh, there’s a missing minute of the tape, but that’s just because they always change over at one minute before midnight, and we lose a minute of tape,” which everybody was like, “What!?”

“And also when I said client list is on my desk, I really just meant file, bye.” It’s just been totally insufficient, Liz, totally insufficient. And no sane human being would at this point be saying, “Oh, okay, I have no more questions. It’s all answered for me.”

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