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BumRushDaShow

(152,346 posts)
Fri May 9, 2025, 07:13 AM Friday

Attorney General Pam Bondi Was Secretly Recorded in Attempted Gotcha Meeting Arranged by James O'Keefe

Source: MEDIAite

May 8th, 2025, 10:01 pm


U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi was secretly recorded discussing the FBI’s files on late serial sex offender Jeffrey Epstein during a sting conducted by conservative activist James O’Keefe.

In a video published by O’Keefe on Thursday, Bondi could be seen telling an undercover journalist that the FBI was processing “tens of thousands of videos” of Epstein “with little kids.”

Seemingly in an effort to beat O’Keefe’s story, Bondi made a similar statement at the White House on Wednesday, telling reporters, “There are tens of thousands of videos of Epstein with children or child porn” – in effect voiding O’Keefe’s scoop.

“Yesterday, Attorney General of the United States Pam Bondi was at the White House and disclosed what she represented as brand new information in relation to Jeffrey Epstein: the existence of tens of thousands of videos featuring little children,” said O’Keefe in his video on Thursday. “Now, this is the first time an official has publicly acknowledged that videos of Epstein and his victims exist. What you may not know is just nine days prior, the attorney general had a very similar conversation with a total stranger in a restaurant.”

Read more: https://www.mediaite.com/politics/attorney-general-pam-bondi-was-secretly-recorded-in-attempted-gotcha-meeting-arranged-by-james-okeefe/






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AG Pam Bondi Was Covertly Recorded on April 28, Revealing Previously Undisclosed Information About Epstein Regarding 'Tens of Thousands of Videos of Little Kids' to a Complete Stranger in a D.C. Restaurant

Yesterday, the AG Made an Almost Identical Statement Publicly After Show more
7:45 PM · May 8, 2025


After he got kicked out of Project Veritas, one of his remaining 9 lives kicked in and he is back in business. Whoda thunk it would be against "his own"???

For some reason, the RW loonosphere has gone apeshit crazy over the Epstein thing.
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Attorney General Pam Bondi Was Secretly Recorded in Attempted Gotcha Meeting Arranged by James O'Keefe (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Friday OP
Release the recording, James. sop Friday #1
His recording is in that Xitter post BumRushDaShow Friday #6
Thanks sop Friday #10
No problem! BumRushDaShow Friday #13
Not a great idea creeksneakers2 Friday #34
They prosecute crimes of child pornography and pedophiia all the time while protecting the victims' identities. sop Friday #37
Sure - name the offenders. creeksneakers2 Friday #38
I wonder how many videos there are of Dump himself? Dave Bowman Friday #2
I don't want to know. littlemissmartypants Friday #48
I wouldn't mind knowing how many there are. ShazzieB Friday #58
It the late Epstein helps knock the truth into MAGA heads, spread it. Kid Berwyn Friday #3
*rump leans in, Malignia leans away NBachers Friday #40
Drug-induced paralysis must come later. Kid Berwyn Friday #44
There's no doubt she's high in that picture. littlemissmartypants Friday #49
They have to sift through them first to remove any video incriminating those in the repug party mdbl Friday #4
Or work on the AI to try and implicate Democrats. hadEnuf Friday #5
or UBER Rich, and Politcians....... DENVERPOPS Friday #39
Something is not quite right here johnnyfins Friday #7
"if they only implicate Dems, it's horseshit" BumRushDaShow Friday #8
I expect that it will be edited TimeToGo Friday #23
Pam Bondi just pulls numbers out of her butt, just like the millions of lives saved by confiscating fentanyl. travelingthrulife Friday #15
MAGAts are dumber than a bag of hammers... GiqueCee Friday #21
Yes. exboyfil Friday #22
This is the same person who claimed Trump saved 258 million lives... Prairie Gates Friday #29
Prolly from the safe in his NY townhouse not fooled Friday #33
I wondered that too. creeksneakers2 Friday #35
Sounds like they know who this "total stranger" is. I wonder how long it'll take for that name to leak out. TheRickles Friday #9
This is so dumb. They obviously staged the "sting" Mr.WeRP Friday #11
Everything that O'Keefe has done is "staged" BumRushDaShow Friday #14
They believe in their twisted minds... littlemissmartypants Friday #51
I suspect they are going after its perceived enemies. mwmisses4289 Friday #12
The right wing echo chamber is fixated on Epstein because . . . AverageOldGuy Friday #16
I'm sure O'Keefe will peddle deep fakes mzmolly Friday #17
Makes me think O'Keefe will end up like Epstein pretty quickly rurallib Friday #18
As much as I despise... GiqueCee Friday #19
O'Keefe "going after his own"? When you want big fish.... JohnnyRingo Friday #20
He's getting ready to set up Democrats mzmolly Friday #24
They could have done that as soon as she was confirmed and got access BumRushDaShow Friday #26
IMO, she didn't release information because it implicated mzmolly Friday #28
Yes BumRushDaShow Friday #31
I hope you're right about mzmolly Friday #42
I think what has happened in the past 4 months BumRushDaShow Friday #43
Boy do I agree! mzmolly Friday #46
Makes me think there could be "Is he dead yet?" threads for that O'Keefe bastard. calimary Friday #25
It's just their newest excuse as to why they haven't released the files. Clouds Passing Friday #27
So first, yes James and Pam. We already knew what the tapes show. Second, I sincerely Scrivener7 Friday #30
She Didn't Know Who He Was? Deep State Witch Friday #32
The pimp costume should've been a clue. n/t Harker Friday #57
The MAGAts think evidence will reveal complicity by Bill Clinton. More probably, Trump will be implicated. Martin68 Friday #36
She hasn't released them because Trump and the party are busy ransoming those on the tape (for money and favors). chowder66 Friday #41
It's like George Santos threatening to expose Marjorie Taylor Greene struggle4progress Friday #45
Cue the bans/tariffs on recording devices Montauk6 Friday #47
Tens of thousands of kids? No videos here! Marcuse Friday #50
I'd love it if she threw O'Keefe in jail Renew Deal Friday #52
WITH A TOTAL STRANGER? Jimvanhise Friday #53
Somehow I doubt this jmowreader Friday #54
Kash is looking hard into all those videos. Historic NY Friday #55
Self-gratification? czarjak Friday #62
They really seem to be into pedophilia Kali Friday #56
Why would he conduct a sting on his own party? Initech Friday #59
For some bizarre reason BumRushDaShow Friday #60
If anything is released... Kablooie Friday #61

BumRushDaShow

(152,346 posts)
13. No problem!
Fri May 9, 2025, 08:36 AM
Friday

Didn't realize he really did manufacture a whole new media outlet!

I suppose he'll be asking for press credentials soon.

sop

(14,163 posts)
37. They prosecute crimes of child pornography and pedophiia all the time while protecting the victims' identities.
Fri May 9, 2025, 11:46 AM
Friday

Bondi needs to release the names of all the men (and women) seen on Epstein's videos who are guilty of such crimes. Obviously, Epstein's videos shouldn't be put on the internet for all to see.

creeksneakers2

(7,650 posts)
38. Sure - name the offenders.
Fri May 9, 2025, 11:50 AM
Friday

Even if the victims are blurred out they still would have endure millions of people witnessing their rape. And if everything is blurred out then what is the point of releasing?

My guess is this is all a hoax.

littlemissmartypants

(27,661 posts)
48. I don't want to know.
Fri May 9, 2025, 02:56 PM
Friday

As a matter of fact, I have seen beyond enough videos of him already.



❤️RESIST!! ✊️

ShazzieB

(20,634 posts)
58. I wouldn't mind knowing how many there are.
Fri May 9, 2025, 07:15 PM
Friday

I would never, never, EVER want to see them, but that's a whole separate question.

Kid Berwyn

(20,345 posts)
3. It the late Epstein helps knock the truth into MAGA heads, spread it.
Fri May 9, 2025, 07:22 AM
Friday


Especially something so grotesque it can’t be un-seen.



Which is why Rupert Murdoch made certain Fox TV cut Trump out of the above when Ghislaine Maxwell was on trial.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/fox-news-apologizes-for-editing-trump-out-of-photo-with-jeffrey-epstein-and-ghislaine-maxwell

Kid Berwyn

(20,345 posts)
44. Drug-induced paralysis must come later.
Fri May 9, 2025, 01:45 PM
Friday

The lights are on, but nobody home can do anything about it.



Bet that two fellahs who ran in the same circles— Bill Cosby and Harvey Weinstein — shared sources, notes and methods on pharmaceuticals with Epstein and Trump.

mdbl

(6,452 posts)
4. They have to sift through them first to remove any video incriminating those in the repug party
Fri May 9, 2025, 07:36 AM
Friday

hadEnuf

(3,184 posts)
5. Or work on the AI to try and implicate Democrats.
Fri May 9, 2025, 07:53 AM
Friday

In other news, O'Keefe is a piece of shit.

DENVERPOPS

(12,134 posts)
39. or UBER Rich, and Politcians.......
Fri May 9, 2025, 12:21 PM
Friday

The only thing that would bring these assholes down would be them doing shit with children............

You can bet your sweet asses that none of these will ever see the light of day for that reason alone.

Trump is being blackmailed by Putin with something that would destroy him if released......

I suspect Lindsay Graham was shown a photo of him, that was given to Trump by Putin, that got Lindsay to overnight start worshipping every thing Trump did or said......

Just look at those flying around on Epstein's sex flights and probably visiting his isolated sex compound....Bill Gates, Bill Clinton, etc

Hell, Melinda Gates finally said that the thing that triggered their break up, was that she did it, after five years of telling Bill it didn't look good for him befriending Epstein and flying all over with him on Epstein's private jet...

We never saw Heidi Fleis' black book either.......

I am sure Ghislaine (Sp?) could write volumes about things she was involved in and saw.....and even better, WHO was doing them....

johnnyfins

(2,053 posts)
7. Something is not quite right here
Fri May 9, 2025, 08:16 AM
Friday

Tens of thousands? Where/ Who did they come from? When did the DOJ get their hands on them? Were they seized when TSF had Barr raid Epstein's Manhattan mansion?

One thing is for sure, if they only implicate Dems, it's horseshit and it just means that any videos with repugs were trashed.

BumRushDaShow

(152,346 posts)
8. "if they only implicate Dems, it's horseshit"
Fri May 9, 2025, 08:29 AM
Friday

I expect the majority are NOT political figures/elected officials but are probably including a number of entertainers/celebrities/sports figures/high-end business executives, etc.

TimeToGo

(1,419 posts)
23. I expect that it will be edited
Fri May 9, 2025, 09:34 AM
Friday

I may be wrong, but I think we will see only people Trump doesn’t like or doesn’t care about.

travelingthrulife

(2,261 posts)
15. Pam Bondi just pulls numbers out of her butt, just like the millions of lives saved by confiscating fentanyl.
Fri May 9, 2025, 08:54 AM
Friday

MAGAs do not understand math or big numbers.

GiqueCee

(2,199 posts)
21. MAGAts are dumber than a bag of hammers...
Fri May 9, 2025, 09:22 AM
Friday

... Ain't a man among 'em who can count to 21 with his shoes on.

exboyfil

(18,223 posts)
22. Yes.
Fri May 9, 2025, 09:23 AM
Friday

You know you aren't dealing with a professional when they engage in hyperbole. Over a 100 possible but more than that? Highly unlikely. Now his collection could be a lot more kids since apparently pedophiles send it arround like baseball cards.

Of course one is too many, and I don't care who it is doing that to kids - they need to spend significant time in jail.

Prairie Gates

(5,035 posts)
29. This is the same person who claimed Trump saved 258 million lives...
Fri May 9, 2025, 10:12 AM
Friday

Numbers don't seem to be her strong suit.

not fooled

(6,275 posts)
33. Prolly from the safe in his NY townhouse
Fri May 9, 2025, 11:29 AM
Friday

Apparently he videoed many, many encounters including between the young victims and "friends" of Epstein.

creeksneakers2

(7,650 posts)
35. I wondered that too.
Fri May 9, 2025, 11:38 AM
Friday

Wouldn't have been very smart of Epstein to create all that evidence against himself. And who would take the videos? Why wasn't this brought out before? I think this is probably a hoax.

TheRickles

(2,737 posts)
9. Sounds like they know who this "total stranger" is. I wonder how long it'll take for that name to leak out.
Fri May 9, 2025, 08:31 AM
Friday

BumRushDaShow

(152,346 posts)
14. Everything that O'Keefe has done is "staged"
Fri May 9, 2025, 08:40 AM
Friday

But for some wild reason, the MAGat crowd IS livid about this whole Epstein thing and have been demanding why "everything" hasn't been released after Bondi's grand announcement months ago, promising TO release "everything" (and she didn't). It's truly bizarre.

littlemissmartypants

(27,661 posts)
51. They believe in their twisted minds...
Fri May 9, 2025, 03:03 PM
Friday

That the "Biden Crime Family" has a representative in every frame.

❤️RESIST!! ✊️

AverageOldGuy

(2,582 posts)
16. The right wing echo chamber is fixated on Epstein because . . .
Fri May 9, 2025, 08:58 AM
Friday

. . . they are convinced “the Epstein tapes” are filled with Bill and Hillary Clinton doing nasty things to children.

mzmolly

(52,145 posts)
17. I'm sure O'Keefe will peddle deep fakes
Fri May 9, 2025, 09:00 AM
Friday

Last edited Fri May 9, 2025, 09:38 AM - Edit history (1)

related to this bullshit before long.

This feels very orchestrated to me. It feeds right into this whole Q propaganda, bull.

Donald Trump reportedly raped a child with Epstein. The right wing protects Trump by asserting that Democrats are every bit as depraved.

GiqueCee

(2,199 posts)
19. As much as I despise...
Fri May 9, 2025, 09:18 AM
Friday

... Pam Bondi, James O'Keefe by far eclipses her as a lower life form. There is no bottom to his cesspool of malice and depravity.

JohnnyRingo

(19,918 posts)
20. O'Keefe "going after his own"? When you want big fish....
Fri May 9, 2025, 09:18 AM
Friday

...you cast your line into a well stocked lake.
The snake O'Keefe was desperate for a return to fame and went to where the scandals are rife.

He wore out the Clinton / abortion angles.

BumRushDaShow

(152,346 posts)
26. They could have done that as soon as she was confirmed and got access
Fri May 9, 2025, 09:52 AM
Friday

while making her big announcement that when she did get access, she would "release everything" (most likely before she found out it wasn't what they thought).

This is why they are pissed because like the QAnon nuts who were supposed to see their God Emperor installed "by (fill in the date) " back in 2021, they are not going to find what their fantasy universe has concocted.

mzmolly

(52,145 posts)
28. IMO, she didn't release information because it implicated
Fri May 9, 2025, 10:03 AM
Friday

Trump and other Republicans. But they’d still like to use Epstein against Democrats somehow. So, O’Keefe and Bondi will float this bullshit and there will be mass misinformation surrounding what is supposedly in these tapes and it will falsely implicate Democrats - Twitter will have a field day.

They’re probably waiting until closer to the 2026 elections before they really stir up the lies.

BumRushDaShow

(152,346 posts)
31. Yes
Fri May 9, 2025, 10:37 AM
Friday

but she is playing with fire because info on their "target" Democrats - notably Clinton - has already been released in previous tranches and the MAGats are thinking there is more because they manufactured their own CTs and had been blaming the Biden admin for not releasing it. So in swoops THEIR administration guru and what happened? Nada.

This is why they are pissed with her making a production about it and then providing nothing not already released. The stringing them along until 2026 isn't going to fly because they have been strung along since Shrub's AG Mukasey when it all broke 20 years ago, and later under 45's then-AG - Bill Barr.

mzmolly

(52,145 posts)
42. I hope you're right about
Fri May 9, 2025, 01:05 PM
Friday

this not being effective. But myth is what drives these idiots to the polls for as long as I can remember.

BumRushDaShow

(152,346 posts)
43. I think what has happened in the past 4 months
Fri May 9, 2025, 01:41 PM
Friday

SHOULD drive US "to the polls", and if anything, WAY more than THEM.

mzmolly

(52,145 posts)
46. Boy do I agree!
Fri May 9, 2025, 02:12 PM
Friday

Too bad Republicans don't vote on actual issues. If they voted in their own interest, and not based upon unfounded fox driven fears, there would never be another Republican elected to office.

calimary

(86,251 posts)
25. Makes me think there could be "Is he dead yet?" threads for that O'Keefe bastard.
Fri May 9, 2025, 09:40 AM
Friday

And I’d thoroughly enjoy reading every single one!

Clouds Passing

(4,713 posts)
27. It's just their newest excuse as to why they haven't released the files.
Fri May 9, 2025, 09:56 AM
Friday

Think about it, O’Keefe is a tool of the R party. He’s no objective journalist.

Scrivener7

(55,681 posts)
30. So first, yes James and Pam. We already knew what the tapes show. Second, I sincerely
Fri May 9, 2025, 10:14 AM
Friday

doubt they're delaying the release because of due diligence. There is no question in my mind they're using the time to cull them so Mump and the republiQans don't show up in them.

Just like the Muller report "totally exonerated trump" so will the Epstein files when they're finally released with lots of strange time lapses.

Deep State Witch

(11,792 posts)
32. She Didn't Know Who He Was?
Fri May 9, 2025, 10:41 AM
Friday

I mean, he's a RW darling! And she didn't know who he was? Even if she did, she didn't think that there was the possibility of being recorded?

Idiot.

Martin68

(25,732 posts)
36. The MAGAts think evidence will reveal complicity by Bill Clinton. More probably, Trump will be implicated.
Fri May 9, 2025, 11:45 AM
Friday

As for the child porn thing, that sounds rather doubtful to me.

chowder66

(10,522 posts)
41. She hasn't released them because Trump and the party are busy ransoming those on the tape (for money and favors).
Fri May 9, 2025, 12:47 PM
Friday

struggle4progress

(123,159 posts)
45. It's like George Santos threatening to expose Marjorie Taylor Greene
Fri May 9, 2025, 02:09 PM
Friday

Neither James nor Pam has any credibility

They can all stick their heads up their backsides and jump off the pier

Jimvanhise

(423 posts)
53. WITH A TOTAL STRANGER?
Fri May 9, 2025, 03:31 PM
Friday

Why would she make these claims to a total stranger? Tens of thousands sounds fake. A couple hundred would be more believable. The thing is the FBI raided Epstein's Florida mansion and they stated that any computers which had been there were missing. I'm sure somebody has them, but not the FBI.

jmowreader

(52,262 posts)
54. Somehow I doubt this
Fri May 9, 2025, 04:55 PM
Friday

Everyone knows Epstein was the scum of the earth. Problem is, he was also hella smart - smart enough to not have allowed videos like this to be made. Epstein was smart enough to save Trump from himself in the financials department...Epstein's financial management was the only thing keeping Trump rich, and Trump's bank account went to shit when Epstein finally figured out what a crook Trump is and dumped him. You need a huge brain to keep a guy who had his toilet gold-plated from going broke.

BumRushDaShow

(152,346 posts)
60. For some bizarre reason
Fri May 9, 2025, 08:37 PM
Friday

the MAGats were expecting "a full disclosure of 'the Epstein Files'" once they had their own people in and Bondi made a production about doing just that... but then she didn't release anything really "new". Now they are pissed.

And O'Keefe had gone so far off the rails that the outfit he created literally kicked him out so he created a new one!

Kablooie

(18,897 posts)
61. If anything is released...
Fri May 9, 2025, 11:40 PM
Friday

you can be sure that no important Republican will be part of it.
(Unless Trump is upset with them)

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