Newsmax host Carl Higbie issued a fiery takedown of Attorney General Pam Bondi over her combative testimony before the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday.
“I was in her corner when she took office. I gave her all the benefit of the doubt. I still want her to succeed,” Higbie said on Newsmax’s “Frontline.” “But after today, I don’t know how her political career survives.”
During her testimony Wednesday afternoon, Bondi repeatedly raised her voice at lawmakers who pressed her about the release of millions of federal files connected to Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking case.
She also used the hearing to defend President Donald Trump. During one exchange, Bondi contended that lawmakers should focus on the stock market’s performance rather than revisiting matters related to Epstein, the disgraced financier who died by suicide in 2019.
“The Dow is over $50,000. … The S&P is at almost 7,000, and the NASDAQ is smashing records. Americans’ 401k and retirement savings are booming. That’s what we should be talking about,” Bondi said during her testimony.
Higbie took particular issue with the vast number of redactions seen in the Epstein files.
He pointed to one exchange during Wednesday’s testimony in which Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) showed Bondi dozens of completely redacted FBI 302 forms. The forms are official internal reports created after agents interview a witness or collect information.
“You see why people like me are still thinking that this is a cover-up? A 302 form is an FBI interview with a subject or a witness or something,” Higbie said. “Why are hundreds of them fully redacted? This is either a cover-up or it’s incompetence.”
Higbie criticized the Obama and Biden administrations for failing to make arrests and publicly reveal the names of individuals who were implicated in or linked to Epstein’s crimes. However, he said the onus was now on Bondi to secure justice for Epstein’s survivors as the head of the DOJ.
“No doubt, Pam Bondi, you drew the short straw to uncover something hidden for decades,” Higbie said. “Probably the biggest scandal since Watergate. But that’s the job.”
“I want somebody to go to jail for it,” he continued. “At a minimum, anybody involved with screwing this up should no longer work for the DOJ or have a law license.”
