President Trump has attempted to quell a MAGA mutiny and infighting between two of his top law enforcement officials, Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino, whose politicized hyping of supposedly suppressed investigative files from the Jeffrey Epstein case, coupled with the administration’s inept handling of them, has caught up with them – with all the resulting finger-pointing that implies.
A former cop and Secret Service agent who is not a lawyer, Bongino had never worked at the FBI prior to being appointed by Trump. The president liked his work as a fiery podcaster during the Biden years — work that included Bongino’s suggestion that Epstein did not commit suicide, and that Epstein’s “client list” was being “hidden” because its disclosure would “rock the world.” Bondi, while supporting Trump for reelection in 2024, expressed exasperation on Fox News that release of the government’s Epstein files had been slow-walked, nonsensically claiming that there was “no legal basis” to keep names private unless a person was “a child, a victim, or a cooperating defendant.” (Apparently, as attorney general, she has recently become better informed.)
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