United States Attorney General Pam Bondi’s now-infamous Epstein Client List “switcharoo” is almost undoubtedly going to cost her job in the end.
Donald Trump just cannot seem to escape the heavy, looming cloud of the Epstein Scandal, and, frankly, he and his people seem to only just make it worse for themselves at every turn, as stories and claims are repeatedly changed, twisted, and contradicted into making less and less sense with each passing day.
With no end in sight to this massive and ever-growing scandal that’s marring him at every turn, even amongst his most devout supporters, it’s truly only a matter of time before Trump essentially has no choice but to throw someone else to the wolves in a desperate attempt to save himself.
According to one longtime D.C. insider, they expect that proverbial sacrificial lamb to be none other than Pam Bondi.
Journalist Eleanor Clift, who has long moved through the inner folds and workings of Washington, D.C., has penned a stunning new piece with The Daily Beast, in which she breaks down her reasoning for believing that Pam Bondi’s days within the Trump Administration are numbered and few.
Far-Right Conservatives instantly latched onto the infamous Epstein Files, which have long been cloaked in quiet scandal and secrecy, when the Trump AG confirmed in an interview that she has the notorious list of Epstein clients sitting on her desk. The Right was of the firm belief that Trump and his attorney general would soon pull back the curtain on a wide-reaching “cabal” of Democrats, government agents, and high-ranking individuals who were part of a child sex trafficking ring.
In their minds, it would serve as the pinnacle of Donald J. Trump’s political career and offer them the slam-dunk “gotcha” moment against the Left that they’ve been foaming at the mouth over for years.
That moment never came.
As we’re all aware now, Bondi recently attempted to retract her previous statement, now claiming that no such “List” ever even existed.
Ever since then, Bondi has spent less time as a functioning attorney general and much more time attempting to outrun the onslaught of Epstein bombshell revelations that are landing in her lap almost daily and discrediting almost everything she’s ever said.
The very same onslaught of bombshell revelations that has left the Trump White House in an unending crisis.
Clift theorizes that Pam Bondi’s time in the president’s good graces is almost over, as she fully expects the notoriously impatient and hot-tempered Donald Trump to soon throw his own AG to the wolves in an effort to staunch his own bleeding and offer himself a reprieve with his MAGA base, many of whom have found themselves feeling jaded and betrayed by the way this circus of a scandal has played out on the public stage.
Clift suggests that Bondi “is in a particularly precarious position, as the official most directly in the line of fire over the Epstein debacle,” writing that the “MAGA base doesn’t want to turn on Trump, but they want someone to pay for the switcheroo they’ve been served.”
As a result, that makes Pam Bondi the “likely fall guy.”
Michael Sozan at the Center for American Politics echoed a similar sentiment.
“It’s like ‘The Apprentice’ taking place in the White House with Cabinet secretaries and top officials knowing that in order to survive they better do anything they can to please him, even when it’s not in the best interest of the American people,” Sozan explained before adding, “She still sits at the apex of the decision-making. I don’t see how she successfully gets out of this.”
You can read the full column with The Daily Beast here.
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