Former GOP Rep says Trump will get rid of Pam Bondi over botched handling of Epstein files: 'Fall woman'

WASHINGTON, DC: Former GOP Rep Denver Riggleman said on Friday, July 18, that Attorney General Pam Bondi could be on President Donald Trump's chopping block following the Department of Justice's handling of Jeffrey Epstein files.

The DOJ and the FBI earlier announced there was no Epstein "client list", also adding in their findings that he committed suicide and there was no foul play behind his death.

Denver Riggleman warns Pam Bondi could be on Donald Trump's chopping block

Riggleman told MSNBC on Friday, "Here's the thing. You know what they say, far-right conspiracy theorists: nothing to hide, nothing to fear."

"So right now my question is, why don't they — why didn't Congress, just like, you know, Comer did with Hunter Biden, why wouldn't they want to call [Epstein associate Ghislaine] Maxwell to actually talk about the 50th birthday? Why wouldn't Congress want to have her to come there? I mean, you want the facts out, right, Mike? That's what we want to do, right?" he added.

While referencing Trump's more recent claims that the whole scandal was fabricated by Democrats, Riggleman said, "The other thing, too, is that — and it's something that's been bothering me for a long time on this — how in the heck, right, do you blame other people for creating your own conspiracy theory?"

"And when you're looking at the base, what they're going to see with the grand jury reports, right? We're going to see if anything is redacted. If they don't see all the evidence, they're going to spiral. And a lot of people have seen the far right trying to message out of this," he mentioned.

Further in his conversation, he brought up Bondi and said, "It's the beginning of the end. She's gone soon. She's not going to last much longer in this administration. I think they're going to have to have a fall woman. I think it's going to be Pam Bondi."

However, he added that getting rid of Bondi won't solve the problem.

"It's going to be very difficult, right, for the Republicans and the MAGA base to message out of this. And I think the Democrats can hit on this for years. I just don't see any way out for them, regardless of what they release," Riggleman said.

He also mentioned, "As long as they waited to release this, this fever, the conspiratorial fever rises and rises and rises and rises and rises and rises until crazy starts to eat its own tail. And I've told people for a long time, crazy has so much more energy than sanity. And if crazy starts to turn that ship towards you, you better watch out."

He further added, "Even if it's Donald Trump, if it looks like that he is protecting a pedophile and it looks like he is the one that QAnon warned about, there could be huge issues."

Donald Trump defends Pam Bondi following Epstein files controversy

On July 12, President Trump jumped into the fray, threw his full support behind Pam Bondi, and called the focus on Epstein a waste of time while rumors of resignations and Department of Justice (DOJ) tension heated up following the revelations in the Jeffrey Epstein probe.

He wrote on Truth Social, "What’s going on with my ‘boys’ and, in some cases, ‘gals?’ They’re all going after Attorney General Pam Bondi, who is doing a fantastic job!"

The POTUS continued, "We’re on one Team, MAGA, and I don’t like what’s happened. We have a perfect administration, the talk of the world, and ‘selfish people’ are trying to hurt it, all over a guy who never dies, Jeffrey Epstein."

"Let Pam Bondi do her job-she's great! One year ago, our Country was dead; now it’s the ‘HOTTEST’ Country anywhere in the World. Let’s keep it that way, and not waste time and energy on Jeffrey Epstein, somebody that nobody cares about," Trump added.

Interestingly, Trump made the post after a tense week at the White House, which reportedly included a heated confrontation between FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino and Bondi.

Sources said that the clash erupted following the release of a long-awaited Justice Department review into Epstein’s death, which ultimately yielded nothing.