U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi and other top insiders could face several criminal charges in connection with their handling of the Jeffrey Epstein matter, according to a former GOP strategist.
Ex-GOP strategist Rick Wilson, who recently said he might depose Trump in a lawsuit and force the president to explain his ties to the deceased child sex abuser Epstein, wrote a piece on Friday in which he notes that Bondi and Trump official Todd Blanche "have spent months insisting that there’s nothing more to see, no client list, no reason to keep digging."
"Now we have Epstein himself saying Trump 'knew about the girls,' spent hours with a victim, and was 'dirty.' You don’t have to be a lawyer or prosecutor (and I am most certainly neither) to see the legal tripwires they’re dancing around," he said before outlining several examples.
Number one, according to Wilson, is obstruction of justice.
"If it’s shown that DOJ brass deliberately withheld, destroyed, or mischaracterized responsive Epstein records to protect Trump or other allies – particularly in response to Congressional demands, subpoenas, or court orders, that’s squarely in obstruction territory. I know, right now it seems like they get away with everything, but the reality is that they have to be lucky every time… we only have to be lucky once," he wrote, before outlining a charge for conspiracy to defraud the United States.
"A coordinated pattern of misleading Congress and the public about what the files contain…you know, like using 'no client list' language while sitting on emails like the ones released yesterday could fit the classic 'conspiracy to interfere with lawful government functions' theory," Wilson wrote.
Another potential charge, he said, is contempt of Congress.
"As the House moves from discharge petitions to binding legislation and subpoenas, any continued slow-walking or stonewalling exposes Bondi and Blanche (neither of whom, it must be recalled, is Trump’s personal attorney) to contempt findings and, under a future Justice Department, to a potential criminal referral," he wrote. He added that there are other potential consequences, as well.
"Even short of criminal charges, bar regulators take a dim view of lawyers who play cute with evidence, mislead tribunals, or weaponize redactions to hide politically inconvenient truths. The more the public record fills with letters from Raskin, Garcia, Durbin, and others documenting DOJ’s shifting explanations, the worse it looks for the lawyers signing off on those decisions," he wrote. "To be precise: no court has found Bondi or Blanche criminally liable, and the corrupt DOJ’s OLC and Trump-stooge Inspector General aren’t going to do a damn thing."
He further added, "They are already being accused, in writing, by senior members of Congress of participating in a cover-up of Epstein co-conspirators and evidence. Yesterday’s emails make those accusations more potent, not less."

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