Megyn Kelly on Pam Bondi's ouster: I wonder if Trump is “seeing his dwindling poll numbers now and looking for somebody to blame”
Kelly: “Is there a chance he's blaming Pam Bondi” for the handling of the Epstein files “as opposed to himself?”
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Megyn Kelly on Pam Bondi's ouster: I wonder if Trump is “seeing his dwindling poll numbers now and looking for somebody to blame”
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From the April 2, 2026, edition of SiriusXM's The Megyn Kelly Show
MEGYN KELLY (HOST): So let's start with the potential firings, Sean. I guess I'm not shocked he may or may not be wavering on Tulsi [Gabbard] because the Joe Kent thing clearly was a bee in his bonnet. But I am kind of surprised about the Pam Bondi thing because my impression of the Pam Bondi thing was she handled most of that exactly the way he wanted her to. So what do you make of — let's start with the Bondi report first.
SEAN DAVIS (GUEST): Yeah, so I think to understand the whole Bondi thing, you have to go back to the first Trump administration. His initial AG was Jeff Sessions, one of the first people in Congress who ever got on his side back in 2015. Trump thought he would be great, he was an immigration hawk, and he ended up being a disaster. He turned over the department to the deep state. He recused himself during the Russia hoax.
And then we had Rod Rosenstein for several years, and in comes Bill Barr. So at that point, Bill Barr was maybe not the most loyal guy, but was seen as very, very competent. He dispatched the [Robert] Mueller probe and is a special counsel, but then kind of fell apart at the end. He didn't really follow through with what he needed to do on Russiagate accountability and then ended up kind of going crazy towards the end. He and Trump have a breakup.
And so I think Trump with Bondi decided that what he wanted was not someone who may have been ideologically on his side. He wanted someone who was loyal above all else.
KELLY: Yes.
DAVIS: He tried the competent but not loyal thing with Barr. This time, he wanted someone who was loyal. I think, unfortunately — she was very loyal, absolutely. She wasn't particularly competent. I think she dropped the ball on a ton of things. The Epstein handling was a farce the way she handled that initial White House meeting, the handout of the binders.
KELLY: Yes.
DAVIS: And I think it did extreme damage to Trump the way she handled it. So, I don't blame him, and I don't find it particularly surprising that he's probably had enough, especially when you look at what happened with Tish James, with James Comey, with so many things falling apart. I think he understands now, yeah, loyalty is important, but you need to have somebody who can actually do the job competently every day.
KELLY: I mean, I'm wondering, Sohrab [Ahmari], if he's seeing his dwindling poll numbers now and looking for somebody to blame. And there is no question that when it comes to Trump's base, the two things that arguably have hurt him with that base — well, we're seeing some erosion thanks to Iran — but the Epstein Files is definitely on the list.
And I don't — is there a chance he's blaming Pam Bondi for that as opposed to himself? Because we watched — yes, she was way out ahead of her skis with her PR campaign around “the Epstein client list is on my desk" and all the Fox News appearances and all that. But, like, in terms of we're done giving you any more disclosures, goodbye, that — we saw Trump on camera saying all that himself.