Trump ordered U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi to investigate Democrats who participated in Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking of girls and young women. Apparently, it’s ok for Republicans to mess around with girl victims, but not Democrats.
As Attorney General of Florida from 2011 to 2019, Bondi declared that finding and prosecuting sex traffickers was one of her top priorities.
Dean Obeidallah finds it strange that Pam Bondi never investigated Jeffrey Epstein, who resumed his predatory sex trade after serving a light sentence in 2008. By Bondi’s account today, Epstein had at least 1,000 victims.
Yet she ignored him.
Why?
What we truly need is an investigation into Pam Bondi. Specifically, why didn’t she investigate Jeffrey Epstein for the countless sex crimes he committed against children and women in Florida when she served as Florida’s Attorney General?!
Taking a step back, when Bondi served for eight years as Florida’s top law enforcement officer, she very publicly declared that investigating and prosecuting sexual predators—especially those who preyed on children–a top priority. Indeed, as Florida’s AG, she announced an initiative focused on “Making Florida a Zero-Tolerance state for Human trafficking.”
To that end, in 2013 she proudly boasted about the arrest of 15 child sex predators as part of a five-day investigation known as Operation e-Guardian. At the time, Bondi stated, “Sadly, sexual predators will use any means available to them, including the Internet, to lure children in order to exploit them. This operation was a great multi-agency collaboration that has brought down 15 child predators.”
And in 2018, Bondi launched a confidential tip website for people to report allegations of past child sex abuse by Catholic priests in Florida. She statedthen that any “priest that would exploit a position of power and trust to abuse a child is a disgrace to the church and a threat to society.” Bondi added, “I am calling on victims and anyone with information about potential abuse to please report it to my office.”
Yet despite this very public commitment to investigate and bring to justice people involved in sex crimes against children—even those committed years earlier–she never announced an investigation into or prosecuted Jeffrey Epstein. (At least no investigation that was publicly reported.)
Diane Ravitch's blog 
Republicans pretend to care about sex scandals of Democrats and Democrats pretend to care about sex scandals of Republicans. Ultimately, neither side is going to do a darn thing about it because glass houses.
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When Matt Gaetz had to step aside due his investigation for sex trafficking, Trump appointed Bondi as attorney general because he knew she would be a loyal replacement. She has always protected the interests of the wealthy and well-connected in Florida where corruption among politicians is fairly common. She is experienced in dodging questions and deflecting guilt from anyone she is defending. So turning a blind eye to sex trafficking while simultaneously claiming to end sex trafficking in Florida is natural for this political creature as the victims’ families are neither wealthy nor well-connected. Bondi is no social justice warrior. She is an ambitious, calculated political operative.
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BTW, FBI director, Kash Patel, should be investigated as well for sitting on a number of sworn affidavits related to the Epstein case as well.
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If a list of names, including Republicans and Democrats in positions of power at the state and federal level, that appears in the Epstein files, is ever published, we will know why Pam Bondi ignored Epstein.
I suspect that powerful people list is long with hundreds if not thousands of names. So far, it seems Trump’s name appears more than anyone else. I read that this morning. A year-by-year chart showing Trump’s name mentioned in Epstein’s emails about 1,600 times out of about 2,400 names mentioned.
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It will be more than suspicious if the new files never mention Trump. A sign of scrubbing.
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My thought exactly, Diane. Lots of time to edit out incriminating info. I had been thinking redaction, but scrubbing is more likely.
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Either works.
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Well, it’s not like a 15 year old is a child. Right Megyn?
I’ve been thinking that Bondi’s almost as invested as Trump in keeping these files out of public view. At the very least, it will expose her wrist slap prosecution of an international sexual predator and trafficker. And then move on to complicity in a cover-up dating back to her time in Florida.
It’s pretty obvious what’s going on, if one takes the time to really fact check what’s being presented. The Information Age has made the glass ceiling squeaky clean. But it’s still not enough to unlock the door and create accountability.
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