Megyn Kelly got a conservative crowd cheering when she asked about the importance of the “Epstein Files,” a scandal she laid at the feet of Attorney General Pam Bondi.

Kelly joined Charlie Kirk at a Turning Point USA event on Friday in Tampa, Florida where she opened by calling the “Epstein files” fallout the first real “scandal” of President Donald Trump’s administration.

“This is the first big scandal, I’d say, of the Trump administration that’s on team rational. It’s not a fake media scandal like the left tries to create for President Trump every other day. It’s one of the right’s own making. And it’s not going well. And it has to do with Jeffrey Epstein. But let me just ask you, make some noise if you care about the Jeffrey Epstein scandal,” she said.

The crowd responded by cheering in excitement.

“Raise your hand if it matters a lot to you. Raise your hands,” Kirk added. “So every hand of 7,000 people.”

Kelly then blamed Bondi for the entire scandal while defending the president, saying he’s focused on “other things.”

“I just don’t think this has captured his attention quite yet, but it needs to, because it’s starting to create a real hornet’s nest within the administration. And I’ve got to be honest, I blame Pam Bondi,” Kelly said, some in the crowd cheering more, and one yelling out, “Incompetence,” which Kelly immediately agreed with.

The release of a Department of Justice/FBI memo claiming there is no Epstein client list has split supporters of the president, especially in light of Trump officials making reference to it in the past. Bondi herself claimed that an Epstein client list was sitting on her desk in February.

The list refers to rich and famous associates of Epstein who may have been involved in his alleged decades of sexual abuse. Epstein died of an apparent suicide while in jail being charged with sex trafficking. The late billionaire was a convicted child sex predator at the time.

Kelly noted that Bondi has been the most public and vocal about Epstein in the administration while FBI Director Kash Patel and FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino have been relatively silent. Bongino is reportedly considering leaving his post if Bondi remains in her position.

“She is the reason that things are unraveling around this story right now that virtually all of the Republican Party cares deeply about. It’s also true that Dan Bongino and Kash Patel had questions about Epstein before they took office, okay, before they went into the FBI. But once they joined the FBI, they said nothing. They’ve kept their mouths shut about Epstein.”

Kelly ripped into Bondi for her comments on the list in February, accusing her of playing to cameras and dangling “sweet nothings” to the MAGA crowd.

“She has never missed an opportunity to go on television and dangle sweet nothings that might be coming your way. Try to lead you to believe that she’s got it. It’s on her desk. It’s coming tomorrow. You’re going to see something on Epstein. And it was a tease. So you either believe that Pam Bondi was telling the truth then, or that she’s telling the truth now. But both cannot be true.”

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