Political commentator and former Fox Information host Tucker Carlson mentioned he blames Legal professional Normal Pam Bondi for the extreme scrutiny the Trump administration has confronted over its dealing with of paperwork associated to convicted intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein.
In an NBC Information interview revealed Monday, Carlson mentioned he does not consider the Division of Justice (DOJ) has “much relevant information about Jeffrey Epstein’s sex crimes” that might fulfill those that have lengthy known as for the discharge of “Epstein files.”
“Rather than just admit that, Pam Bondi made a bunch of ludicrous claims on cable news shows that she couldn’t back up, and this current outrage is the result,” Carlson informed the outlet.
Bondi has confronted intense backlash after acknowledging final week there was no consumer record linked to Epstein’s alleged intercourse trafficking of minors and no proof to recommend his dying by suicide in jail in 2019 whereas awaiting intercourse trafficking expenses was really the results of foul play.
President Trump has repeatedly defended Bondi and urged his supporters to maneuver on from the Epstein case, however strain has continued to mount among the many president’s base to fireside the previous Florida legal professional basic.
Bondi mentioned in a Fox Information interview in February that an Epstein consumer record was on her desk to be reviewed and alleged the DOJ had obtained hours of video associated to the case. The White Home in March invited 15 far-right influencers to an occasion, the place they acquired white binders labeled “The Epstein Files: Phase 1,” however the show drew quick backlash as a result of the paperwork offered have been already publicly accessible.
Bondi later claimed in one other TV interview that she was duped into considering she had all of the information associated to the federal government’s Epstein investigations and was looking for extra paperwork after listening to from an alleged “whistleblower.”
Bondi mentioned final week that she was initially referring to different paperwork — not a particular “client list” — associated to the Epstein case being on her desk, and the footage she had talked about was youngster intercourse abuse materials that might not be launched to the general public. She mentioned there was nothing else to be launched from the case.
Trump posted on Fact Social over the weekend that Bondi is doing a “FANTASTIC JOB!”
“We’re on one Team, MAGA, and I don’t like what’s happening,” he wrote. “We have a PERFECT Administration, THE TALK OF THE WORLD, and ‘selfish people’ are trying to hurt it, all over a guy who never dies, Jeffrey Epstein.”
