Megyn Kelly Singles Out ‘Inconsistent’ Pam Bondi in Scathing Epstein Takedown — But Defends Dan Bongino
Megyn Kelly, the former Fox News host turned independent media personality, spoke to fellow podcaster Emily Jashinsky about the DOJ and FBI’s conclusion that convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein didn’t have a client list on Tuesday.
“In the memo, the language that Pam Bondi used, which was ‘no incriminating client list,’ that really jumped out to me actually, because it maybe gives her a little wiggle room between saying that she had a client list and then saying there’s no incriminating client list,” began Jashinsky on her After Party YouTube show. Attorney General Bondi has been under fire for her past statements on the so-called “Epstein Files.” In one Fox News hit, she claimed to have Epstein’s “client list” on her desk.
“So I wanted to ask you if maybe that’s what’s going on here before we get into some of these other details,” Jashinsky added.
“I don’t know what’s going on with her. I believe Dan Bongino’s not lying to me. I really do. When Dan Bongino puts his name on something, I don’t know Kash [Patel] as well, but I know Dan. I know him well. We’ve worked together many, many years. He’s not—he didn’t just turn around and start lying. That’s not who he is. He’s an honest guy and he takes this role very seriously, and I trust him,” Kelly began, defending her fellow ex-Fox News colleague, now the deputy director of the FBI under Patel.
“And I trust them not to actively mislead me or you. However, Pam Bondi has definitely made multiple inconsistent statements, and I’m sorry, but she does not deserve the benefit of my good opinion and I am not prepared to give it to her,” Kelly continued, adding:
She’s—yes, on camera saying, that clip that Peter Doocy was referencing where John Roberts asked her, “Do you have a client list, like are you going to release a client list?” And she said, “Yes.” He said “client list” and she said, “Yes, it’s on my desk right now.”
So it was not as amorphous as Karoline [Leavitt] —to her credit, she’s trying to cover for the administration, which is her job, but they put her in a very difficult position. It’s not amorphous. It’s very clear. She said yes. And here’s what happened. What happened was Pam Bondi said that. And then a week later, she said she was gonna be releasing some very interesting documents the next day when on Jesse Watters’s show, like six days after that first hit. He said, “Hey, well, client list is coming out.” And she was like, “It’s going to be getting very interesting. And some interesting Epstein documents are coming out tomorrow.”
And that is when the influencers, right-wing influencers who had been very good to Trump, who amidst all the deranged media out there, were able to see through the bullshit and reported honestly and helped him a lot and did not deserve the humiliation that she heaped upon them. It was not through their own doing. She invited them there. I mean, who wouldn’t go, right? It’s Pam Bondi. “Do you want to come meet with the head of the FBI and the vice president for an exclusive Epstein leak?” Yeah, yes, most people in media would say yes to that.
So they went and in the classic line from Animal House, “You fucked up, you trusted us.” That’s what happened. They fucked up because they trusted her and they were humiliated because she gave them all these binders that read “Epstein files,” you know, volume one, and there was nothing new in there, nothing. There was no scoop.
Why would she do that? And it led to behind-the-scenes, like all the White House staffers, like the top people in the White House for Trump, distancing themselves from Pam Bondi immediately. Like, “We don’t know why she did that.” And then it came out that they were urging her not to do it. But I don’t know what she was up to. She wanted to have some moment where she looked like she was the one. And then she was in trouble, and she knew it. So she said, “All right, that’s just the first tranche. I’m really pissed off. The FBI is the one who screwed me. They said everything was in there.” Okay, like you need to know, you need to know. No lawyer just sloppily calls all these PR people in and says, “Here are the files” without knowing what’s in there, but she wants us to believe she did. Okay, so she either was clueless or she intentionally embarrassed them. I don’t know which is better.
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