'Bondi is not going': Ex-White House lawyer details 'specific reason' Trump isn’t budging on AG

11 July

Former White House lawyer Ty Cobb on Friday explained why President Donald Trump is likely to side with Attorney General Pam Bondi over FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino, telling CNN’s Erin Burnett it would be “a huge embarrassment” for Trump to fire his attorney general.

Bongino is reportedly considering resigning over Bondi’s handling of the “Epstein Files” after the Department of Justice and FBI “concluded they have no evidence that convicted sex offender and disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein blackmailed powerful figures, kept a ‘client list’ or was murdered,” according to a memo detailed Sunday by Axios.

Bongino — who in the past has “fueled” conspiracy theories about Epstein’s death and relationships with powerful individuals in government — didn’t show up for work Friday, Trump confidant Laura Loomer reports. And, according to Axios, “a source close to Bongino … said ‘he ain't coming back.’"

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Cobb, who served as a member of the Trump administration legal team during the president’s first term in office, said he was surprised the “Epstein Files” have proven to be such a thorn in his former boss’ side.

“I think it’s very odd that it's the ‘Epstein Files’ because I just don't think — and I certainly don't believe the president ever thought — the ‘Epstein Files’ would be this problematic for him,” Cobb said. “Not because, you know, he's not implicated. There are seven trips that he took on the ‘Lolita Express,’ the records are out on that. There are many pictures of him surrounded by 13-year-old girls on the plane … We’ve seen him and Epstein, you know, in pictures together and talking and recordings of, you know, their affection for each other.”

“But I think the theory that this would be what the circular firing squad would form on, I don’t think anybody saw that coming,” he added.

Cobb insisted Bongino “either has to come back from the weekend and say he's sorry, he had a bad day and looks forward to working with his esteemed colleagues and moving forward. Or he's gone.”

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“Because Bondi is not going,” Cobb said. “For a specific reason, which is Bondi, like [Secretary of Defense Pete] Hegseth, is very senior to the other people in their departments who are screwing up. And while they've both been a huge embarrassment and done some just astonishing things … for the history of the country, if [Trump] terminates one of them, he picked him and he put him in those senior positions, and it'll be a huge embarrassment to him.”

“So the further down the pecking order you go, if you're Trump and his thinking if somebody leaves that's further down — if it's not the top dog, it's not as big a reflection on him,” Cobb said.

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