Former Trump White House Lawyer Says Pam Bondi Isn’t Going Anywhere Amid Power Struggle: ‘It’ll Be a Huge Embarrassment’ for Trump
An attorney who worked in the White House during President Donald Trump’s first term said Attorney General Pam Bondi’s job is safe for now.
On Friday, FBI Director Kash Patel and Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino were reportedly mulling whether to resign their posts if Bondi remains as attorney general after this week’s debacle involving the Jeffrey Epstein case. Bongino reportedly did not show up for work on Friday.
Bondi, Patel, and Bongino had all pledged to make public vital documents related to Epstein, the deceased child sex trafficker and financier who befriended members of the upper echelons of society, including Trump. In a memo obtained by Axios on Sunday, the Department of Justice and the FBI concluded that Epstein did not have the much-anticipated “client list” that many – particularly supporters of Trump – believe Epstein kept. The memo also reiterated the department’s conclusion that Epstein killed himself in a Manhattan prison cell in 2019.
Those conclusions landed like a lead balloon among the MAGA faithful, sparking intense backlash against the administration.
Ty Cobb, who served in Trump’s White House in the first administration, appeared on Friday’s OutFront on CNN, where he said there is no world in which the president chooses either Patel or Bongino over Bondi.
“I think Patel clearly has gotten the message because he sort of silently sat on the sidelines and rallied behind the team concept that the White House and the Justice Department are trying to sell,” Cobb said. “And I think what you’ll see is that Bongino… has to come back from the weekend, and say, ‘Gee, sorry I had a bad day.'”
Cobb said if Bongino doesn’t show contrition, “he’s gone.”
“Bondi’s not going,” he stated.
“So, Bondi versus Bongino, to Trump, you have no question that Trump would choose Bondi?” host Erin Burnett asked.
“That’s true,” Cobb replied. “And for a specific reason, which is Bondi, like Hegseth, is very senior to the other people in their departments who are screwing up. And while they’ve both been a huge embarrassment and done some just astonishing things, and for the history of the country, if he terminates one of them, he picked them. And he put him in those senior positions, and it’ll be a huge embarrassment to him. So, the further down the pecking order you go, if you’re Trump, in his thinking, if somebody leaves that’s further down, if it’s not the top dog, it’s not as big a reflection on him.”
Watch above via CNN.
