By NIKKI SCHWAB, CHIEF CAMPAIGN CORRESPONDENT
President Donald Trump has been complaining about Attorney General Pam Bondi over high-profile prosecutions going off the rails and her handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files.
The Wall Street Journal reported Monday on Trump’s grievances, pointing to Bondi’s failure to prosecute the president’s longtime political enemies, including former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James.
Trump also reportedly backed Chief of Staff Susie Wiles’ assessment that Bondi ‘whiffed’ on the Epstein files, something Wiles told Vanity Fair in the magazine’s controversial cover story last month.
Longtime Trump political ally Steve Bannon told the paper that Bondi is ‘bleeding support,’ disappointing both the president and ‘President Trump’s most loyal troops.’
‘Folks are desperate for action and just haven’t seen it,’ Bannon continued, pointing to how Trump’s base wants to see investigations into the 2020 election – which Trump continues to falsely claim that he won – and the 2016 Russia investigation, which Trump believes was a Democratic effort to derail his first term.
The White House was quick to defend the attorney general, sending quotes to the Daily Mail from the president, vice president, Wiles, press secretary Karoline Leavitt and Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
Rubio, Wiles and Bondi all cut their teeth in Florida politics.
‘Pam is doing an excellent job. She has been my friend for many years. Tremendous progress is being made against radical left lunatics who are good at only one thing, cheating in elections and the crimes they commit,’ the statement from Trump said.