Pam Bondi is suddenly at the center of a political and legal firestorm, with a former GOP strategist warning that the U.S. Attorney General could face multiple criminal charges over her handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files.
Rick Wilson — a longtime Republican operative turned vocal anti-Trump critic — argues that Bondi isn’t just adjacent to the controversy. In his view, she’s the key figure in what he calls a slow-moving cover-up inside the Justice Department.
According to Wilson, 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.” But he says new documents and fresh claims connected to Epstein have blown apart that narrative.
Wilson points directly at Bondi as the DOJ official most visibly defending the agency’s handling of the case — a position he says is now legally perilous. “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 wrote.
Obstruction: The First Tripwire
Wilson’s first potential charge — and the one that casts the harshest spotlight on Bondi — 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,” Wilson wrote. He added that while it may seem like top officials always skate by, “they have to be lucky every time… we only have to be lucky once.”
Conspiracy: A Pattern That Points Upward
If there was a coordinated effort to blunt congressional oversight, Wilson suggests it would directly implicate Bondi.
“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,” he wrote.
The target of that accusation? In practice, Bondi — the public face defending DOJ actions.
Contempt of Congress: Bondi in the Crosshairs
Wilson warns that shifting House tactics could put Bondi in immediate legal danger.
“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.
Career Consequences Beyond Criminal Charges
Even if prosecutors never step in, Wilson says Bondi’s professional reputation could take a serious hit.
“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,” he wrote. And as more letters surface from lawmakers “documenting DOJ’s shifting explanations, the worse it looks for the lawyers signing off on those decisions.”
Wilson stresses that “no court has found Bondi or Blanche criminally liable,” but he also argues that the current Justice Department — which he calls “corrupt” — is unlikely to investigate its own leadership.
A Cover-Up Accusation That’s Now on Paper
Wilson ends with a blunt reminder of how serious the situation already is:
“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.”
Bondi hasn’t publicly responded to Wilson’s claims, but the pressure — politically and legally — is clearly building around her role in the Epstein files controversy.
