President Donald Trump claimed Thursday that Attorney General Pam Bondi would “go down as the greatest attorney general,” resorting to the kind of hype he often reserves for himself. (Watch the video below.)
“Pam, thank you very much. What a job,” Trump said to her in Washington, D.C., as they met law enforcement and National Guard troops amid his federal takeover of the district. “People don’t realize, they’re gonna see, she’ll go down as the greatest attorney general we’ve had. I really mean it, too.”
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Trump, at times, has compared himself to Abraham Lincoln, George Washington and Martin Luther King Jr., and has called himself the “greatest” president as well.
So, throwing some hyperbole Bondi’s way might not be a shocker.
But she’s earning brickbats elsewhere.
She made sketchy claims about Washington, D.C., residents whispering their thanks to federalized law enforcement for their presence, despite violent crime dropping a reported 27% in the district last year. In fact, some residents strongly protested the intervention.
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She’s reportedly made inflated assertions about the effectiveness of the crackdown as well.
Criticism toward Bondi over the Jeffrey Epstein files has jumped the aisle in a big way. She’s drawn heavy conservative backlash to her and her boss’s sudden downplaying of the documents of the late sex offender after hyping them to Trump’s base.
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