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Showing Original Post only (View all)White House 'less than thrilled' with Pam Bondi's handling of Epstein matter: CNN reporter [View all]
Bondi was playing to an audience of one person. I thought that Bondi was very unprofessional and went too far. It seems that trump may not be happy with the public backlash to Bond's antics
White House 'less than thrilled' with Pam Bondi's handling of Epstein matter: CNN reporter
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CNN's Kevin Liptak revealed the White House was unimpressed with Attorney General Pam Bondi's fiery performance before the House Judiciary Committee.
President Donald Trump's attorney general lashed out at Democrats, hurling insults and highlighting various crimes back in their home districts that she pulled from a tabbed binder, and refused to answer questions about the Jeffrey Epstein case, but CNN's senior White House correspondent revealed what he's hearing about her from insiders.
"It was almost a Trumpian appearance from the attorney general," Liptak told "CNN News Central," "and I think that particular aspect of it will probably have gone over fairly well. But, listen, the White House has made no secret that it is less than thrilled at how the attorney general has handled the Epstein matter. You know, Susie Wiles, the chief of staff, who is ostensibly one of Pam Bondi's friends, said that she had whiffed the entire thing, which I think sort of embodies how the West Wing has viewed this generally, and so when she went out into that hearing room to engage in this really sort of bitter theatrical appearance, I think it did reflect an attorney general very much under fire for how she's handling all of this."
"You know, she came armed with these personalized insults for anyone who asked about anything she didn't want to talk about, which was virtually anything having to do with Jeffrey Epstein," Liptak added. "She really shrugged off questions from Democrats about why none of Epstein's co-conspirators had been indicted. She blamed that on the Biden administration. She refused to apologize to Epstein's victims, who were sitting in the very room where she was, for how some of these files had been redacted or not redacted, as the case may be showing to the general public some of the victims names and faces. That was the line of questioning from [Rep.] Thomas Massie (R-KY), who was kind of the only Republican in the room to ask her about any of this."
President Donald Trump's attorney general lashed out at Democrats, hurling insults and highlighting various crimes back in their home districts that she pulled from a tabbed binder, and refused to answer questions about the Jeffrey Epstein case, but CNN's senior White House correspondent revealed what he's hearing about her from insiders.
"It was almost a Trumpian appearance from the attorney general," Liptak told "CNN News Central," "and I think that particular aspect of it will probably have gone over fairly well. But, listen, the White House has made no secret that it is less than thrilled at how the attorney general has handled the Epstein matter. You know, Susie Wiles, the chief of staff, who is ostensibly one of Pam Bondi's friends, said that she had whiffed the entire thing, which I think sort of embodies how the West Wing has viewed this generally, and so when she went out into that hearing room to engage in this really sort of bitter theatrical appearance, I think it did reflect an attorney general very much under fire for how she's handling all of this."
"You know, she came armed with these personalized insults for anyone who asked about anything she didn't want to talk about, which was virtually anything having to do with Jeffrey Epstein," Liptak added. "She really shrugged off questions from Democrats about why none of Epstein's co-conspirators had been indicted. She blamed that on the Biden administration. She refused to apologize to Epstein's victims, who were sitting in the very room where she was, for how some of these files had been redacted or not redacted, as the case may be showing to the general public some of the victims names and faces. That was the line of questioning from [Rep.] Thomas Massie (R-KY), who was kind of the only Republican in the room to ask her about any of this."
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White House 'less than thrilled' with Pam Bondi's handling of Epstein matter: CNN reporter [View all]
LetMyPeopleVote
Feb 12
OP
Trump hates Bondi because she is an artifact of his weakness: he wanted Gaetz in the role
Prairie Gates
Feb 12
#7
The White House may not be thrilled with her performance, but I'll bet Orange Julius Caesar got off on it.
generalbetrayus
Feb 12
#16
Explosive Pam Bondi hearing 'could be her last' as she did what Trump hates most: analyst
LetMyPeopleVote
Feb 12
#29
White House 'less than thrilled' with Pam Bondi's handling of Epstein matter: CNN reporter
Sad Citizen
Feb 12
#30
Bondi was channeling Trump, she answered the Epstein questions exactly how he would if forced to testify.
sop
Feb 12
#31
According to MaddowBlog, trump may have been happy with Bondi's appearance
LetMyPeopleVote
Feb 13
#35