Pam Bondi mistakenly 're-energized' Trump's enemies with latest backfire: MS NOW

Attorney General Pam Bondi appeared for another combative congressional hearing Wednesday, but MS NOW's Mika Brzezinski said her pugnacious performance may have backfired.

The attorney general hurled insults and interrupted Democratic lawmakers as they grilled her over the Jeffrey Epstein case and President Donald Trump's long-standing ties to the late sex offender, and the "Morning Joe" co-host warned that Bondi likely inflamed interest in the matter.

"I just was watching this all day yesterday and I thought if her goal, as some argue, was to protect the president from some information that might be damaging to him, she did the worst job you could possibly do," Brzezinski said, "because she has just re-energized all the people who might be exhausted at this point, including some of the victims. If anyone was thinking of walking away or thinking, oh my God, I just can't take it anymore – she was infuriating, number one."

"But that wasn't the worst thing that she did," Brzezinski added. "If indeed she was trying to protect someone in her performance, she appeared to be dishonest, and if she was working for an audience of one, she failed because she just re-energized the entire movement, because she was so unlikable, inept, infuriating and completely incompetent every step of the way, and, you know, her demeanor even was, I'd say, if I will say the women who are fighting for their lives right now, the victims and those supporting them this morning, they are re-energized to take this to the very end."

Host Joe Scarborough agreed, saying that Bondi clearly appeared to be covering up Trump's alleged ties to Epstein's sex trafficking network.

"All she did was re-energize them," he said, "and I wouldn't say, for me, it wasn't infuriating. It was embarrassing, it was inept, it was, it looked like a total – she made it look like a total cover up, and will, obviously she has just multiplied Americans' interest in the Epstein files because now everybody is asking, what are they hiding? What is she hiding, and this leads to, again, [Commerce Secretary] Howard Lutnick."

"Could this White House do more to gin up more interest in the Epstein files than keeping on a guy caught lying red-handed, who admitted that yesterday or the day before, red-handed on his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein?" Scarborough added. "It seems that every move they make is calculated to generate more interest and more intensity on Epstein files."

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