President Donald Trump has come to the protection of Lawyer Normal Pam Bondi amid an all-out revolt amongst his MAGA base over the administration’s dealing with of the Jeffrey Epstein information.
However his effort over the weekend to quell the outrage solely appeared so as to add gasoline to to the hearth.
“What is going on on with my ‘boys’ and, in some circumstances, ‘gals?’ They’re all going after Lawyer Normal Pam Bondi, who’s doing a FANTASTIC JOB! We’re on one Crew, MAGA, and I do not like what’s occurring,” Trump wrote in a prolonged publish to his conservative social media platform on Saturday night.
“Now we have a PERFECT Administration, THE TALK OF THE WORLD, and ‘egocentric folks’ try to harm it, throughout a man who by no means dies, Jeffrey Epstein,” Trump continued.
Trump’s publish was ratioed, that means the publish acquired much more replies than likes or re-posts, typically an indication of widespread disapproval — regardless of Trump’s platform Fact Social being dwelling to lots of his most diehard supporters.
A few of Trump’s fiercest defenders have continued to focus on the lawyer basic, warning the president that the problem isn’t going away and will price him heading into subsequent yr’s midterms.
“Folks make their very own decisions and choices, however mark my phrase, the dearth of precise outcomes on the DOJ and lack of transparency that interprets into incompetence will price the GOP Home and Senate seats. Do not say I did not warn you,” Laura Loomer, who has been main the cost for months in opposition to Bondi, posted on X.
Conservative commentator Megyn Kelly, who endorsed and campaigned for Trump in 2024, was nonetheless placing warmth on Bondi even after Trump’s publish.
“I am positive it is a reduction for Pam Bondi to listen to the president remains to be in her nook. Sadly, big swaths of the celebration will not be. She repeatedly misled on Epstein. Then did not have the braveness to elucidate herself. Abruptly, she’s digital camera shy & no Qs allowed. Good luck!” Kelly wrote on X.
On the conservative Turning Level USA convention in Florida on Friday, Fox host Laura Ingraham requested if the group to clap in the event that they had been glad with the outcomes of the Epstein investigation. The gang loudly booed in response.
Lawyer Normal Pam Bondi, joined by President Donald Trump, speaks on current Supreme Court docket rulings within the briefing room on the White Home on June 27, 2025 in Washington, DC.
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However on Monday, Turning Level USA co-founder and conservative commentator Charlie Kirk stated Trump had known as him and that he would belief the administration and needed to maneuver on from the controversy.
Kirk stated Trump instructed him over the weekend that he nonetheless backed Bondi, sources confirmed to ABC Information. Trump made the decision after being proven a clip of Kirk seeming to help Bongino over Bondi on the Turning Level summit, sources stated.
Notably, in current days and weeks, Kirk has not been one of many MAGA voices main the cost relating to the Epstein information controversy, and has at occasions been extra making an attempt to calm issues down inside the bottom as different voices on the suitable elevate the alarm.
On the identical time, Trump’s former White Home chief strategist Steve Bannon pushed for motion relating to Epstein, posting on-line that Trump ought to “Give Epstein Proof to the Particular Prosecutor — NOW.”
In the meantime, Lara Trump, President Trump’s daughter-in-law and a Fox Information host, instructed MAGA influencer Benny Johnson on Monday that she believed there did must be “extra transparency” relating to the administration’s dealing with of the Epstein case and stated she believed “that that may occur,” predicting extra data could be launched “sooner slightly than later.”
Lara Trump’s message to the MAGA base: “However to everyone on the market who’s all labored up about it, there is not any nice plot to maintain this data away that I am conscious of.”
The political firestorm kicked off after the Justice Division and FBI released a memo stating they discovered no proof the deceased financier saved a “shopper record” of associates whom he blackmailed or conspired with to victimize dozens of girls. No additional expenses are anticipated in reference to their probes into Epstein, the memo said.
The division additionally launched hours of footage as a part of its evaluation, which officers say additional confirmed Epstein died by suicide whereas in custody in his jail cell in Manhattan in 2019.
Bondi, specifically, has come beneath hearth over her feedback to Fox Information in February when requested about Epstein’s alleged “shopper record.” She instructed the outlet on the time, “It is sitting on my desk proper now to evaluation.”
Bondi argued in a Cupboard assembly final week that she was merely referring to a file on Epstein.
“I used to be requested a query in regards to the shopper record, and my response was, it is sitting on my desk to be reviewed, that means the file together with the JFK, MLK information as effectively. That is what I meant by that,” Bondi stated.
Trump in his social media publish on Saturday sought to place his personal spin on the Epstein information, claiming with none proof they had been created by a few of his political foes, together with former President Barack Obama, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and the Biden administration.
The Epstein information have additionally brought on infighting throughout the administration.
Final week, Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino had a fiery confrontation with Bondi over how she has dealt with the evaluation of the Epstein information and the Monday memo, sources acquainted with the matter instructed ABC Information.
Sources stated that Bongino has lately recommended to allies he could resign.
Trump was requested by ABC Information on Sunday if Bongino was nonetheless his deputy director of the FBI. Trump responded by saying, “Oh, I feel so.”
“I did, I spoke to him right now, Dan Bongino, excellent man. I’ve recognized him a very long time. I’ve executed his present many, many occasions, and he sounded terrific, really. No, I feel he is in good condition,” Trump stated.
Trump, in his social media publish, insisted that his administration is reaching success and should not get sidetracked by this. He inspired each Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel to deal with different issues he deems as a precedence, like voter fraud or the 2020 election.
“LET PAM BONDI DO HER JOB — SHE’S GREAT!” Trump wrote.
In one other present of help, Trump introduced Bondi alongside to the FIFA Membership World Cup closing in New Jersey on Sunday night time.
-ABC Information’ Katherine Faulders, Lalee Ibssa and Oren Oppenheim contributed to this report.
