Trump's most besieged Cabinet member
"They embarrassed themselves. They stepped on a rake for no apparent reason.”
Seated at the center of his assembled four-person panel, Glenn Beck was searching for an explanation on one of the great White Wales of the MAGAfied right: Why had Pam Bondi failed to deliver on the Jeffrey Epstein files?
“She’s not typically rolling with people like us,” offered Steve Deace, a co-host on Beck’s BlazeTV online network who built a national following through his Christian-rooted conservative commentary in Iowa. “I think she got caught frankly, playing a role that maybe she doesn’t sincerely understand, believe in, and got way over her skis.”
“You suck at things when you are playing a part maybe you really don’t understand or believe in.”
— Steve Deace on Trump Attorney General Pam Bondi
Beck, the longtime conservative provocateur, arrived at the conclusion that Bondi was uncoordinated with the rest of the Trump White House and its team. “She’s not in lock step. She’s just not in lock step,” he said.
A man of deep faith, Deace offered Bondi an instant path to redemption: Provide a single name in the yet-to-be released trove of documents surrounding the infamous suspected sex trafficker who died in prison under mysterious circumstances.
“Give us one confirmed name,” Deace proposed, “something that demonstrates that she is going to follow through on this, this time.” Beck liked the idea.
More than a week since the segment and two weeks since Bondi teased the great Epstein release, the Department of Justice says it’s still in the process of reviewing thousands of pages of documents that aren’t quite ready for the public’s eyes.
“We’re not trying to win a race here, we’re trying to protect victims.”
— A Department of Justice official on the Epstein files
As Bondi reaches the sixth week of her tenure, a look at her status in Trumpworld as she’s become the lone Cabinet member to take con
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