CNN Anchor Calls Out Fox News for Failing to Ask Trump AG About Epstein Files

CNN anchor Brianna Keilar called out Fox News for failing to ask Trump Attorney General Pam Bondi about the so-called “Epstein Files” during her recent appearances on the network.

It has now been a month and a half since the Trump Justice Department dropped the bombless bomb heard ’round the world when they claimed there actually was no Jeffrey Epstein client list, and no “Epstein Files” worth releasing.

Bondi, once a fixture on Fox News, vanished from the network after that announcement — until her two appearances this week.

On Wednesday night’s edition of CNN’s The Source with Kaitlan Collins, guest anchor Keilar noted the return — and the silence on the 400-pound dead sex criminal in the room:

KEILAR: And Pam Bondi, the A.G., has sort of emerged from this self- exile that she sort of, I guess, put herself into here, for the last month or so. She has installed this co-deputy FBI director, alongside Dan Bongino. Trump officials say it’s a sign that she won this power struggle. Is that how you see it, Elliot?

ELLIOT WILLIAMS: It’s — I do. And it’s a little bit odd, only because — you know, step back. Who is the Deputy Director, generally? That has long been an individual who has experience in the FBI, who is a career law enforcement officer, and really is the person who runs the day-to-day operations of the FBI. Now, you did not have that in Dan Bongino, and you kind of don’t have that now, with the second person they put in.

Yes, this is sort of all political, and a way of giving fig leaves to different people in the administration, or different people in the president’s base.

KEILAR: When I say she went on a self-exile, she took, basically, a month-long break, from what were pretty regular appearances on Fox, and then she actually went on Fox, twice this week.

We should note that she was not asked about Epstein, during those appearances. What’s going on there?

ZOLAN KANNO-YOUNGS: I mean, why they made the decision to not ask? I’m not sure. But regardless of what the attorney–

KEILAR: It’s topical, to be clear.

KANNO-YOUNGS: It certainly–

KEILAR: Right, Zolan? OK.

KANNO-YOUNGS: It certainly is news. But whether or not she’s asked in that interview, to the point before, when it comes to some of the different media outlets that the President’s base tunes into, online, digital, podcast, this is still very relevant, right?

I don’t see this just fading away, and the attorney general, really, any administration official, being able to avoid this for too long. Which is why, again, you’re seeing this action, right? To be — you’re seeing this action to release these grand jury testimonies. It’s an attempt to feed that base.

WILLIAMS: And again, it’s feeding the base with something that’s not feeding them anything at all. As the judge had noted, there are tens, if not, hundreds of thousands of documents in the Justice Department’s possession.

KANNO-YOUNGS: Yes.

WILLIAMS: The grand jury materials — and if there’s one thing the world needs to hear from my voice, it’s that nothing was going to be in grand jury materials–

KANNO-YOUNGS: Right.

WILLIAMS: –that would satisfy the public on this issue. They tend to be very limited. It wasn’t going to work here.

KEILAR: Air, right?

WILLIAMS: Air.

KEILAR: All right. Thank you guys so much.

Watch above via CNN’s The Source with Kaitlan Collins.