Megyn Kelly criticized President Donald J. Trump over his testy response to a reporter who pressed Attorney General Pam Bondi about the already infamous Justice Department memo denying that Jeffrey Epstein had a client list and unresolved questions about the notorious sex trafficker.
The unexpected memo also concluded that Epstein died by suicide in his high-security Manhattan prison cell in 2019, with video of the outside of the cell also released to prove that nobody accessed the area, albeit with a minute mysteriously missing, which the reporter pressed Bondi about.
The conservative journalist and podcaster was stunned by the exchange as well as the administration’s handling of questions about the DOJ memo, which has turned into a public relations debacle at a time when Trump has been on a huge roll with his domestic agenda and foreign policy.
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After Bondi was asked about the missing footage and the unresolved question of whether Epstein was working on behalf of intelligence agencies, Trump jumped in, cutting off the reporter.
“Are you still talking about Jeffrey Epstein? This guy’s been talked about for years,” the president said. “You’re asking – we have Texas, we have this, we have all of the things, and are people still talking about this guy? This creep? That is unbelievable.”
“I mean, I can’t believe you’re asking a question on Epstein at a time like this, where we’re having some of the greatest success and also tragedy with what happened in Texas. It just seems like a desecration,” Trump said, before allowing Bondi to respond to the reporter’s question.
“Good grief,” Kelly said on Tuesday’s edition of “The Megyn Kelly Show” on Sirius/XM. “That was no bueno, guys. That was no bueno, OK? President Trump had the same problem there that Karoline Leavitt had yesterday,” referring to the White House spokesperson’s claim that Bondi misspoke when she said that she had the Epstein client list on her desk earlier this year during a Fox News appearance.
“The dodge should not be obvious. It should be subtle. It should be deftly worked into a more substantive answer,” she continued. “It shouldn’t be, ‘Hold on, I want to answer that before you answer that, my underling, why are you interested in Jeffrey Epstein? That old story? That is not a thing; we should not talk about that creep. That is unbelievable that you want to waste the time. Do you want to answer that?’”
Kelly was also puzzled over Bondi’s answer, not a good look for the embattled attorney general.
“What is she saying?” Kelly asked. “She’s nervous. And the truth is not her friend, for whatever reason.”
“Her days are numbered as a member of the Trump administration,” Kelly also said, predicting that the bungled handling of the Epstein case will be Bondi’s undoing amid calls for her to resign or be fired.
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