Posted on 07/08/2025 9:16:13 AM PDT by Miami Rebel
Megyn Kelly, the former Fox News host turned independent media personality, spoke to fellow podcaster Emily Jashinsky about the DOJ and FBI’s conclusion that convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein didn’t have a client list on Tuesday.
“In the memo, the language that Pam Bondi used, which was ‘no incriminating client list,’ that really jumped out to me actually, because it maybe gives her a little wiggle room between saying that she had a client list and then saying there’s no incriminating client list,” began Jashinsky on her After Party YouTube show. Attorney General Bondi has been under fire for her past statements on the so-called “Epstein Files.” In one Fox News hit, she claimed to have Epstein’s “client list” on her desk.
“So I wanted to ask you if maybe that’s what’s going on here before we get into some of these other details,” Jashinsky added.
“I don’t know what’s going on with her. I believe Dan Bongino’s not lying to me. I really do. When Dan Bongino puts his name on something, I don’t know Kash [Patel] as well, but I know Dan. I know him well. We’ve worked together many, many years. He’s not—he didn’t just turn around and start lying. That’s not who he is. He’s an honest guy and he takes this role very seriously, and I trust him,” Kelly began, defending her fellow ex-Fox News colleague, now the deputy director of the FBI under Patel.
“And I trust them not to actively mislead me or you. However, Pam Bondi has definitely made multiple inconsistent statements, and I’m sorry, but she does not deserve the benefit of my good opinion and I am not prepared to give it to her,” Kelly continued, adding:
She’s—yes, on camera saying, that clip that Peter Doocy was referencing where John Roberts asked her, “Do you have a client list, like are you going to release a client list?” And she said, “Yes.” He said “client list” and she said, “Yes, it’s on my desk right now.”
So it was not as amorphous as Karoline [Leavitt] —to her credit, she’s trying to cover for the administration, which is her job, but they put her in a very difficult position. It’s not amorphous. It’s very clear. She said yes. And here’s what happened. What happened was Pam Bondi said that. And then a week later, she said she was gonna be releasing some very interesting documents the next day when on Jesse Watters’s show, like six days after that first hit. He said, “Hey, well, client list is coming out.” And she was like, “It’s going to be getting very interesting. And some interesting Epstein documents are coming out tomorrow.”
And that is when the influencers, right-wing influencers who had been very good to Trump, who amidst all the deranged media out there, were able to see through the bullshit and reported honestly and helped him a lot and did not deserve the humiliation that she heaped upon them. It was not through their own doing. She invited them there. I mean, who wouldn’t go, right? It’s Pam Bondi. “Do you want to come meet with the head of the FBI and the vice president for an exclusive Epstein leak?” Yeah, yes, most people in media would say yes to that.
So they went and in the classic line from Animal House, “You fucked up, you trusted us.” That’s what happened. They fucked up because they trusted her and they were humiliated because she gave them all these binders that read “Epstein files,” you know, volume one, and there was nothing new in there, nothing. There was no scoop.
Why would she do that? And it led to behind-the-scenes, like all the White House staffers, like the top people in the White House for Trump, distancing themselves from Pam Bondi immediately. Like, “We don’t know why she did that.” And then it came out that they were urging her not to do it. But I don’t know what she was up to. She wanted to have some moment where she looked like she was the one. And then she was in trouble, and she knew it. So she said, “All right, that’s just the first tranche. I’m really pissed off. The FBI is the one who screwed me. They said everything was in there.” Okay, like you need to know, you need to know. No lawyer just sloppily calls all these PR people in and says, “Here are the files” without knowing what’s in there, but she wants us to believe she did. Okay, so she either was clueless or she intentionally embarrassed them. I don’t know which is better.
-PJ
Even Jesse Watters is raising hell about this and he’s been as big a Trump supporter in the media as there is.
The more they obfuscate, the more questions it raises.
Flame away, but I'm not the one hiding the truth.
Trump’s comments today on this subject were unacceptable. I don’t know who the reporter was but he asked a question that every MAGA I know wants an answer to: What’s the explanation for the conclusions reached in the Epstein investigation? We don’t want to hear it from Bondi or Patel. We deserve to hear it from the president. He needs to clean this up.
you could tell Bondi was the type to talk outa both sides of her mouth, whatever sounded best in the moment from first time I listened to her. always right, didnt flub up, everyone just misunderstood what she meant, but she wasn’t wrong. I wouldn’t trust her with anything.
However, the cold hard truth is that our country is absolutely dependent upon illegal aliens for farm/ranch labor specifically.
If 100% of the illegal aliens were removed from the 'hospitality' industry in the near future (and they should be), sure...many hotel bed sheets won't get changed on time. People don't start dying in large numbers from lack of toilet cleanings in hotels. That doesn't create an actual nationwide existential crisis.
If 100% of the illegal aliens were removed from the landscaping/lawn care business in the near future (and they should be), sure...many lawns would go without mowing for some period of time. People don't start dying in large numbers from lack of lawncare. That doesn't create an actual nationwide existential crisis.
If 100% of illegal aliens were removed from the construction industry in the near future (and they should be), sure...many home construction (or repair) projects would come to a halt for some time. People don't start dying because they can't buy a new home. That doesn't create an actual nationwide existential crisis.
However...
If 100% of illegal aliens who work in the farm/ranch labor business were removed in the near future (and ideally on rule of law & sovereignty issues only, they should be), that WOULD create an actual nationwide existential crisis. The food supply in this country would collapse. There would be a massive void of ultimately getting the vast majority of this nation's food from the land to the table.
The honest truth is that there are simply not enough American Citizens, or legal residents, who are willing to immediately (& it would have to be immediately because food is perishable) step in and go out in the fields, orchards or slaughterhouses to do that work.
Some will say, just make it a work requirement for those on welfare. I'd say to that, look at how difficult it was to get just an 80-hour work, or school requirement per month!
You would need to get this Congress to mandate 160+ hours per month of specifically field, farm or slaughterhouse work.
Who do you single out to do that kind of work requirement, instead of some other kind of work of their choosing? How do you enforce that? Would that even be Constitutional?
Sure, Sally over there can choose to go to school for 80 hours a month in order to qualify for welfare, but you Dan, you must go out into the fields and pick food for 160+ hours a month in order to qualify for welfare.
This specific industry is going to have to take a different approach to solve and it will take time, even years to fix.
Automation and robots will eventually replace much, if not almost all of that human labor...but that is many, many years away.
There's e-Verify system, but there is basically no enforcement or consequences behind it.
It's going to have to be some kind of 'guest worker' program...that is actually enforced. And that is going to take time and political will to put actual enforcement practices and policies in place.
It's a massive mess this country has gotten itself into. And while it's true that many/most illegal aliens can and should be deported yesterday, the 'food' industry presents a unique and dangerous challenge to correct and make right.
A nationwide shortage of clean hotel bedsheets is a 1st world irritation, but a nationwide shortage of food is an entirely different situation.
Pay market rates with decent work conditions and there will be plenty of workers in ag—and elsewhere.
The only reason ag employers don’t want to give up there illegals is because they have them as quasi-slaves, paying below legal rates and with outrageous hours and conditions.
As I have pointed out elsewhere we for no good reason at all often subject American ag workers to sub-minimum wage as it is, let alone with illegals undercutting them.
And if all farms have to pay legitimately nobody will be at a market disadvantage for doing so.
Case in point: Every city in the country has plenty of workers picking up trash. Pay people legitimately and don’t undercut them with illegals, and we’ll have plenty of workers anywhere in the country.
However, the cold hard truth is that our country is absolutely dependent upon illegal aliens for farm/ranch labor specifically.
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Well the world did not end with the Trump Tariffs like everyone thought.
The farmers will soak up the extra cost for legal, safe, labor.
They might not be able to have a new F350 every other year.
I’m cool with paying an extra $20 for a hotel room to have it cleaned by an American Tax Payor.
-PJ
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Well the world did not end with the Trump Tariffs like everyone thought.
The farmers will soak up the extra cost for legal, safe, labor.
They might not be able to have a new F350 every other year.
I’m cool with paying an extra $20 for a hotel room to have it cleaned by an American Tax Payor.
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I'm ok with paying an extra $20 for a hotel room as well.
However, saying the farmers will just have to absorb the cost assumes that all farmers are currently working on high enough profit margins to actually absorb those costs without going bankrupt. There's a reason the phrase "lose the farm" exists. Another issue altogether, however, you've completely missed the point.
This comment isn't about the financials or profits. It's about numbers of humans required to do the work for the foreseeable future.
Is it the expectation that the farmer himself...maybe with his wife, is going to pick and process all the food he grows?
His two hands are going to single handedly replace dozens or even hundreds of the illegal alien hands currently required to get the food out of the ground, out of the bushes, out of the tree's and out of the slaughterhouses and into the supermarkets in time before it rots?
The food 'growing' and 'processing' business is a different animal than all the rest.
People with college degrees are going to do this?
Or, perhaps, people who are currently working in the trades are going to do this? Say, a plumber making a nice living is going to quit and go work in the orchards picking fruit?
Sure, back in the 1700's and 1800's it happened. But this country, and our wealth and standard of living has changed...dramatically.
It would take generations, if at all possible, to convince large enough amounts of people they should not go to college, they should not go into the trades, they should not go into the military, etc. and they should go work in the field. Even for a "market rate."
No way. That's fantasy land stuff.
Again, this isn't about dollars.
It's about the workforce, large enough amounts of people in this country not being accustomed to having to do manual labor under the sun.
It's great to be the wealthiest, first world country. But with that, comes certain expectations...even from those without a college degree.
However, the cold hard truth is that our country is absolutely dependent upon illegal aliens for farm/ranch labor specifically.
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When I was a young man me and most of my friends worked the fields during the summer, nights and weekends. How many teenagers today know what it is like to work a field? It is time to learn what a days work really means.
You can justify all you want but it is still slave labor in my book.
Guarantee that it is not the local farmer that is suggesting this to Trump. It is the Mega Ag Farms that are twisting his ear.
It’s seasonal. Could well be done to attract college students to go party and work together for a few months of the year. But we already have legal work programs for that environment anyway.
What they’re talking about is amnesty for the illegals who are stashed on farms now year-round. We didn’t used to have that, but farmers got used to being able to pay less, lard on brutal hours, and have an unconscionable control over illegal workers. Then, once enough had them it was hard for other farmers to compete without going the same route. Get them all out!!!!!
And what’s with the lies about an “existential crisis”? Exploiting illegals yourself, by chance?
We need a 5 year Immigration stop.
It SHOULD BE required you assimilate, or you go back. My Great- Granfather had to go through vigorous checks in 1911. Now, we do none of that.
It is the Farm and Hotel industry today, but soon he will offer amnesty for the construction workers.
That upsets me the most. I’m not looking to show up to the job site in a minivan with 4 other guys, because our wages have been deflated due to cheap labor from outside the country.
You know who is picking up that trash in those cities? Either volunteer's, prisoners or those on work requirements because they violated the law.
This is the workforce you're going to get to replace the all the illegal aliens working in the fields/orchards/ranches/slaughterhouses etc?
Again, who are you going to pay a higher than illegal alien wage to do this work?
Trades people? Those retiring from the military? Office workers? Who are these people you're going to pay enough to do this?
Maybe it's the young person just out of high school who wants to be a framer building houses. We get the illegal aliens out of the construction business and pay this person a respectable wage and even make a career out of it. Great. Totally on board. Makes sense.
Your going to convince those people who want to go into a trade, that it would be a better career for them to go work in the field, for a much lower (but still 'market rate') than a construction job wage?
An electrician doesn't bust his behind off and raise his son or daughter up to go work in the fields. That's not the American dream. Not how this works.
Ultimately, this isn't about rates of pay. This is about reality and the fact that this is the wealthiest, 1st world country and you couldn't find nearly enough Citizens of this country to do those jobs...even at 'market' rates. These illegal aliens are just not going to be replaced by American Citizens. Not happening.
Robots and automation will solve much, if not most of this specific issue. However, until we get there the manual labor of picking fruit and vegetables under the sun is going to have to be done by low educated foreigners from poorer countries than ours. The question is, how to do that while upholding and respecting the immigration laws of the country.
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