Remember Trump's Influencers on the Epstein Files? They're Pissed
Conservative commentator Liz Wheeler, who received one of those binders from Attorney General Pam Bondi in February, is now calling for her head, as the MAGA right is scapegoating Bondi for whatever actions Trump has yet to take on their white whale of a case.
'Going back to that day at the White House in February … Pam Bondi bragged to us about making that cover sheet on the binder, the one that read 'the most transparent administration in history.' She said she had made it, she had printed it, she was proud of it.… To call that a severe lack of judgment would be the understatement of the year,' Wheeler said on the Glenn Beck Show on Monday. Wheeler then insisted that Bondi told her in February that the binder didn't contain all of the juicy, incriminating details MAGA wanted because someone from the 'deep state' had infiltrated the FBI to block the notorious client list from being released.
'Contextualizing all of this, this seems like unforgivable behavior. How could she give the American people those 'phase 1' binders that contained nothing? While at the same time bragging about the cover sheet that she made … and tell us that the SDNY had the real goods, that the binders were just proof of a deep state cover-up, only now to say, 'Sorry, there's actually nothing,'' Wheeler continued. 'I think the administration is probably just now coming to the realization of how much goodwill this whole debacle has cost them with their voters, and Pam Bondi is not worth it.' Wheeler later called for Bondi's outright firing.
Wheeler does unfortunately have a point. Bondi went on Fox News two separate times to promote the release of the Epstein files, saying in February that 'they're on my desk right now' and claiming the next month that she had a 'truckload of documents' about Epstein coming to her. People like Rogan O'Handley (DC_Draino) and Chaya Raichik (LibsofTikTok) celebrated these announcements at the time but are now publicly seething, feeling betrayed and confused.
'2 truths: Epstein didn't kill himself & Epstein didn't sex traffick to himself,' Handley wrote on Monday. 'I understand the rage people have for demanding the Epstein client list and arrests. Every influencer there that day feels the same anger watching pedo elites get away with the most heinous crimes. We want justice and almost all of us have called for the client list and arrests for years,' he continued.
'I want answers on Epstein. As many as possible. Not press releases. Answers,' said Jack Posobiec, another binder receiver. 'We were all told more was coming. That answers were out there and would be provided. Incredible how utterly mismanaged this Epstein mess has been. And it didn't have to be,' he opined.
The most hardcore of the MAGA conspiracy theorists seem to be taking this pretty hard. Not only are they unable to acquit their president, who has his own Epstein connections, but they have also been shown yet again that the Trump administration will only deliver lip service to their most important fantasies. Whether it's releasing the client list or ending endless wars, Trump has skewed more neocon than MAGA, and this time angered his base once again.
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