“Pam Bondi’s tendency to exaggerate is catching up to her.
… For many of the president’s supporters, Bondi’s handling of the Epstein files is just the latest in a series of reversals driven by her tendency to overstate. Bondi has also made exaggerated claims about immigration matters, drug policy and the law enforcement agencies in her own purview, which legal experts said risks hurting the Justice Department’s credibility in court and the public eye
… Her supporters say she has made a traditionally closed-off Justice Department more relatable to Trump’s base by appearing regularly on Fox News and that her occasional bluster mimics Trump’s own style. Trump frequently comes away from similar exaggerations unscathed.
… In one of her first public appearances as attorney general, Bondi
strode up to a lectern surrounded by federal agentsin raid jackets and said three times the Justice Department had “filed charges” against New York Democrats including Gov. Kathy Hochul. Her office quickly clarified the department had filed a civil lawsuit against the officials over their immigration policies.
In a Fox News interview in May, she made the claim that since Trump had taken office, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration had seized more than 21 million fentanyl pills, and “that’s 21 million lives saved, in my opinion.” Critics seized on it as a dubious claim, given that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in May said synthetic opioids including fentanyl were involved in 48,422 deaths in 2024 and 76,282 deaths in 2023.
Two days later, Bondi said the fentanyl seizures had saved 119 million lives, which would be roughly one-third of the 340 million people living in the U.S. In a cabinet meeting, she revised her statement again, this time claiming the seizures had saved 258 million lives. McGavick
posted on social media an equation intended to show that the number of seized pills could hypothetically kill 258 million people.
Speaking before Congress last month, she said federal agents would no longer “go to the doors of gun owners in the middle of the night, asking them about their guns,” something law-enforcement officials said they rarely if ever have done….”

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