Blogger Dean Obeidallah raises a very important question: why didn’t Pam Bondi prosecute her state’s most notorious child sex predator when she was Attorney General of Florida? Who was she protecting?
He wrote on his Substack blog:
Donald Trump is so panicked by what is contained in the Trump-Epstein files that he’s now slamming his own followers demanding its release, calling them “stupid” and “weaklings.” Whine as he may, Trump has lost control of the narrative given a new poll released Wednesday which found nearly 70% of Americans believe the Trump regime has engaged in a cover up of the Epstein files–including 59% of Trump supporters. At the very least it appears that Trump knew Jeffrey Epstein was involved in sex ring where children were raped yet did nothing to stop that evil. But Trump’s actions could be worse than that.
However, lost in the discussion is that Trump’s current Attorney General Pam Bondi was Florida’s Attorney General from 2011 to 2019 in the very state that was ground zero for Epstein raping and trafficking children. Why didn’t she investigate and prosecute Epstein for these heinous crimes committed in Florida?!
Taking a quick step back, Epstein received in 2008 the “deal of a lifetime” from local Florida prosecutors and George W. Bush’s Department of Justice. At the time, Bush’s DOJ had identified 36 underage girls who were victims of Epstein. But they offered the well-connected Epstein a deal to plead guilty to just two prostitution charges in state court. He was then sentenced to 18 months in jail–which he served in a private wing of the Palm Beach County jail where he was allowed daily work release. In addition, Bush’s DOJ agreed not to prosecute him for federal crimes. Worse, Epstein’s victims were not even told of the deal in advance so they could object.
After Epstein’s release from jail in 2009, Epstein returned to his lavish lifestyle and was able to “continue his abuse of minors”—a point made in a 2020 report by Trump’s own DOJ after Epstein died in the custody of the Trump administration. So again, why didn’t Bondi investigate Epstein for his crimes while she was AG from 2011 to 2019?!
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Diane Ravitch's blog 
It is sad that the GOP now stands for “guardians of predators.” They are not the party of “family values” and “right to life.” They are not defenders of children. They are the exploiters, and this administration shows its naked capitalism by cutting food and housing for poor families, under funding public schools, allowing teenagers to work late into the evenings and cutting Medicaid. The right protects wealthy perverts, not the children that are the victims of abuse.
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Well said.
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As a defender of Trump, Bondi demonstrates that she only is interested in power. Henry Kissinger once said that political power was a great aphrodisiac. That being accepted, it is a small stretch to imagine Bondi as a willing participant in these sexual encounters.
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That’s quite an accusation. I don’t like either Trump or Bondi, but we need to be careful throwing out substance-free suppositions like that. Let’s leave that salacious nonsense to the Republicans.
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Bondi was too old to participate in “these sexual encounters.” But then again. . . perhaps not as a victim but as a perpetrator.
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When Trump wasn’t able to appoint Gaetz, who had his own charges of trafficking of a minor across state lines to contend with, he enlisted Bondi to be his attorney general. He knew that she would be a loyalist that would defend the rich and powerful and could twist the law to suit him.
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After reading that article it seems clear that Bondi placed her personal ambitions ahead of justice for Epstein’s victims.
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This Epstein thing is just bizarre. Now I’m seeing that he was texting Democratic Virgin Islands congresswoman Stacey Plaskett while she was questioning Michael Cohen during the Trump investigation.
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