Republicans frustrated with Bondi over Epstein, Comey 'messes' at DOJ
Source: msn/The Hill
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Senate Republicans are venting their frustration over Attorney General Pam Bondis management of thousands of records related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and, more recently, mistakes made by the Department of Justice (DOJ) in handling a controversial indictment against former FBI Director James Comey.
Several Republican senators say that controversies at the Justice Department under Bondis leadership have become a growing distraction, although GOP lawmakers acknowledge that Bondi has a tough job responding to the mercurial demands of President Trump. Their biggest gripe is with Bondis conflicting statements on the Epstein files, which they believe triggered the backlash from Trumps MAGA base that put pressure on Congress to pass a law this past week requiring the Justice Department to release all unclassified files related to Epstein, who died in prison in 2019.
GOP lawmakers think Bondi fueled the firestorm which Democrats have delighted in stoking by telling Fox News anchor John Roberts in February that Epsteins client list was sitting right now on my desk to review. Months later, the Justice Department and FBI released an unsigned memo asserting there was no incriminating client list and that federal investigators did not uncover evidence that could predicate an investigation against uncharged third parties. That memo provoked widespread skepticism and accusations that the Trump administration wasnt being fully transparent.
Theres a lot of frustration with the Epstein stuff. People thought the DOJ really mishandled that in general, and unnecessarily elevated that, one GOP senator, who requested anonymity to discuss frustration with Bondi, told The Hill. The senator called Bondis statement to Fox News in February and the conflicting July memo an unforced error.
Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/government/republicans-frustrated-with-bondi-over-epstein-comey-messes-at-doj/ar-AA1QWiUQ
Firestorm49
(4,485 posts)theatrical turn on Trump. He, like most of the other MAGAs will soon be out to save their asses and realize that their idiotic policies affect their constituents as well, and yes, his constituents vote too.
Buddyzbuddy
(1,953 posts)Bondi works for Americans, all Americans. It's a tough job because she wants to please one American while screwing over Americans he doesn't like. That's not the job and if both chambers of Congress did their jobs, the Senators that have criticisms might actually be named instead of anonymous reports. Cowardly Republicans. You know who is not anonymous? Democrats.
MLWR
(701 posts)THIS is what they voted for when they voted for Trump, Agent of Total Chaos. What did they think* they were going to get? People who were capable, competent, qualified, experienced? Then I'd like to know what they were smoking. We ALL experienced his disaster of a first term. We ALL know he is incapable of learning. He IS, as Rex Tillerson told us, a "fucking moron." He is incapable of dealing with people who actually know what they're doing. As a POTUS, he is, as in all his endeavors, an abject failure (or in his language, a LOSER).
pat_k
(12,569 posts)These people are beyond clueless.
Epstein is SOOO much bigger than "who's on the list."
It is a decades long obscenity and corrupt, knee jerk protection of the rich and powerful over multiple administrations.
It is the embodiment of the corrosive effect the accumulation of wealth in the hands of the few at the expense of the many has on any society that allows it.
It could be the match that starts a firestorm that burns down resistance to reversing the current flow of dollars from the many to the few.
They call is "stuff" ?
Un-f-ing-believable.
Either they actually don't get that the "Epstein stuff" represents the uber wealthy manipulating and abusing the most vulnerable among us -- and that that fact stands as an emblem for so much else. Or they get it and don't give a shit.
But if they get it, they should at least give voice to what is happening.
Sure, Pam Bondi is the latest person engaged in a knee jerk cover up of off-the-scale immoral and obscene behavior of wealthy and powerful people who believe (so far rightly) that they are UNTOUCHABLE.
While her motive may be protecting the felon, the knee jerk protection of the uber wealthy, and the automatic dismissal of the girls, women, and others who came forward to bravely make complaints, spans administrations from Clinton (Farmer's complaints), through GWB, Obama, Trump, Biden, and Trump 2.
And just a note about AA. Long before Alex Acosta cut the sweetheart deal in 2007 on behalf of the the "masters of the universe" who abused vulnerable girls and women, he systematically undermined the power of unions on the NLRB in 2002 and then did everything in his power to advance the agenda of destroying any semblance of free and fair elections from 2003 to 2005 as the AG of the Civil Rights Division. His role in the corruption of the elections in Ohio and elsewhere in 2004 goes far beyond dereliction of duty to accomplice in suppressing every legitimate complaint.
I hope that as anger at these men who believe their wealth and power protect them grows, the connections they have to the men undermining the ways our will is measured and made manifest becomes clearer and clearer.
The thing is, people who are abused may lash out in the wrong direction -- e.g., MAGA -- but I believe the anger may begin to focus on the real villains. The villains who have been working for decades to corrupt the means by which the will of we the people is measured and executed. It is time to turn against the billionaire Christian nationalists and their strange bedfellows in sidelining the will of the people.
angrychair
(11,564 posts)Calling things that most would call lies something innocuous like "unforced error".
They have, undoubtedly and repeatedly, stated things as factual that were not, in fact, factual.
The Attorney General is a liar. Worse, she has abused her office and shamed the DOJ by making them little more than servants to whims of a mad orange demon.
They are, very literally, protecting a pedophile and a rapist from facing their day in court.
travelingthrulife
(3,998 posts)Why are they so immoral?