In ironic twist, Epstein files apparently cost Bondi her job even as she shielded Epstein associates

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🗓️ 3 April 2026

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Even though she was unfailingly loyal to Donald Trump, a quality that would be thought to keep her job secure, Pam Bondi reportedly did not sufficiently protect Donald Trump from public awareness of his involvement with notorious pedophile and sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, so Trump has fired her. So despite disgracing herself by shielding Trump and other Epstein associates and turning her back on Epstein's victims, it was Bondi who suffered public disgrace and lost her job because of her own release of the Epstein files.

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0:00.0	And of course, as you've been hearing if you've been watching TV this evening, it's official.
0:04.4	Pam Bondi is out as Attorney General.
0:07.5	Trump announced today that she'll be transitioning to a new job in the private sector.
0:13.1	In other words, she's been canned.
0:15.6	And there were a lot of reasons to fire Pam Bondi.
0:17.6	There were plenty of moments from her ignominious career, a tenure as
0:21.0	Attorney General, that you could choose from.
0:22.7	But there was one moment that I couldn't stop thinking
0:24.8	about today. Happened back in February
0:27.0	when Bondi was asked in Congress
0:29.2	why she had not prosecuted any of
0:31.8	of Jeffrey Epstein's co-conspirators.
0:34.4	And she said this.
0:37.4	This administration released over three million pages of documents,
0:43.2	over three million, and Donald Trump signed that law to release all of those documents.
0:50.8	He is the most transparent president in the nation's history.
0:56.4	And none of them, none of them, ask Merrick Garland over the last four years one word about Jeffrey Epstein.
1:06.7	How ironic is that?
1:08.0	You know why?
1:09.2	Because Donald Trump, the Dow, the Dow right now, is over, the Dow is over $50,000. I don't know why you're laughing.
1:20.9	Yeah, that Dow was in her burn book. She needed to get that comment out. The Dow is over 50,000. That's why she couldn't prosecute any of the co-conspirators
1:29.8	in Jeffrey Epstein's child sex trafficking crimes because the Dow was just too damn high.
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