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There are few people in power to so openly gas up Donald Trump like Attorney General Pam Bondi. Because of that, she is often the target of Trump’s harshest critics, and can you really blame them? After Bondi all but avoided all questions regarding Jeffrey Epstein and the prosecution of his co-conspirators during a Congressional hearing, someone found an old campaign video of Bondi’s that actually talks about stopping human trafficking.
If that isn’t some serious irony, then I don’t know what is. The only campaign video, which is still on YouTube by the way, features 2014 promises made by Bondi for her then-re-election as the state’s attorney general. Spoiler alert: she won that election. But, since then, how much has Bondi actually done to help sex trafficking victims and survivors? I’ll wait.
Pam Bondi’s old campaign video is ironic.
In one part of Bondi’s campaign video, which is on her actual YouTube account, she promises to “fight to put human trafficking monsters where they belong — behind bars.” It almost feels like a Saturday Night Live skit, given how little Bondi has done to help the real life survivors of Epstein’s abuse for years before he was arrested in 2019. In fact, Epstein has a home in Palm Beach, Fla. that he may very well have used often at the time of Bondi’s campaign in 2014.
“Florida ranks third nationally and calls for help for human trafficking where young women and children are enslaved and abused,” Pam says in the video. “I knew we needed all hands on deck. Businesses and hospitals to spot it, our great law enforcement to stop it, and tougher penalties to punish it.”
It should be noted, though, that the comments were turned off on the video.
So no, you won’t be able to leave cheeky comments about Bondi being hypocryptical and failing to deliver on promises to the good people of Florida. But where there is a will, there is a way, because plenty of people have been able to do that on X (formerly Twitter).
“She sure changed her tune,” one user commented on the video on X.
“No she didn’t,” someone else responded to the comment. She was just lying. She was also literally covering up Epstein’s crimes when she was making this video years ago as Florida’s AG.”
There is no evidence or conviction related to Bondi covering up anything regarding Epstein and the crimes he was awaiting trial for before he reportedly died by suicide in his cell. But she has been called out for not doing nearly enough to prosecute individuals named in the Epstein files. Right now, she seems like she is on the wrong side of history. Speaking if history, was she just straight up lying in that campaign video, then?
Someone else wrote on X, “Turns out ‘human trafficking monsters belong behind bars’ comes with an asterisk: *unless they are rich and powerful.”
