Politico - https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/15/massie-lost-confidence-pam-bondi-00782632
Okay, is it a case of "What took you so long," or not?
Did he loose faith in Bondi, only after the hearing; or did he say he's lost faith after the hearing, while having lost any/all faith well before the hearing when he had to cosponsor a bill to force the intransigent official off the dime to FULLY release the Epstein Files.
You could read it either way, but really, having to blast that bill through is an indication of loss of faith prior to the point of bill sponsorship.
The screen capture shows the ambiguity in the headline and in the part of the opening paragraph shown.
What is certain, the "he said" was after the hearing, that's as reported, but the Crabgrass bet is that any/all faith ever in Bondi was error.
If you pay attention often there is an ambiguous referent in online content, but where one reading fails, in context, to make sense. Crabgrass feels that's almost the case here. Massie's bill cosponsorship is clearly from months before the hearing, since the Bondi banter was a stupid event, but well after any sentient person would have held a "no faith" opinion in Bondi from the Trump University monkey-business, i.e., from the start, beyond belief in the troubling fact she is/was/will be a Trump syncophant to the grave.
It pays her bills. It enlarges her narcisstic self-esteem. She needs that sycophancy as a fundamental part of being Pam Bondi - The AG of the USA. Whoopie!
It feeds her several ways.
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Worth noting, the Politico report main body adds -
Bondi sent a legally required report to Congress on Saturday in compliance with the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which mandated the DOJ supply lawmakers with a summary of all redactions made, including the legal basis for doing so, and a list of government officials named in the documents.
In the letter, Bondi cited “deliberative-process privilege” as one justification for redacting certain documents, a common-law principle that allows the federal government to withhold documents revealing internal decisionmaking.
“The problem with that is the bill that Ro Khanna and I wrote says that they must release internal memos and notes and emails about their decisions on whether to prosecute or not prosecute, whether to investigate or not investigate,” Massie said on ABC. “It’s important they follow that, because then we could find why they didn’t prosecute Leslie Wexner. What was the decision tree there?”
The release of unredacted prosecutorial and investigative documents could also shed light on the 2008 plea deal under which Epstein avoided severe federal charges and pleaded guilty to lesser state charges in Florida, Massie added.
The Kentucky Republican also criticized Bondi for refusing to face several victims of Epstein’s abuse who attended the hearing. When Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) asked Bondi to turn around and apologize to the victims for what the Justice Department had put them through during the hearing, Bondi replied: “I’m not going to get in the gutter for her theatrics.”
At one point, Jayapal also asked the victims if they had not been able to meet with the Justice Department to share their stories, and each of them raised their hand.
In short, Bondi is a heartless and mean spirited blond dragon, as well as AG of the USA!