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A new market opened on whether US Attorney General Pam Bondi will be out come the end of March.
Trading began at Polymarket on Thursday February 12 with Bondi opening with a 38% chance but that number dropped to 8% by Friday afternoon.
Just over $12,000 in volume had been recorded.
The prediction market opened following a contentious hearing on Wednesday that drew criticism from both sites of the political aisle.
Bondi launched into a passionate defense of Donald Trump on Wednesday as she tried to turn the page from relentless criticism of the Justice Department’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files.
Epstein is the late convicted sex trafficker who appeared to have connections with countless numbers of high profile individuals. US President Donald Trump and former US President Bill Clinton are both named in the files but have not been implicated in any wrongdoing.
“You sit here and you attack the president and I’m not going to have it,” Bondi told lawmakers on the House Judiciary Committee. “I am not going to put up with it.”
From The Associated Press:
With victims of Epstein seated behind her in the hearing room, Bondi forcefully defended the department’s handling of the files related to the well-connected financier, an issue that has dogged her tenure. She accused Democrats of using the Epstein files to distract from Trump’s successes, even though it was Republicans who initiated the furor over the records and Bondi herself fanned the flames by distributing binders to conservative influencers at the White House last year.
The hearing quickly devolved into a partisan brawl, with Bondi repeatedly lobbing insults at Democrats while insisting she was not “going to get in the gutter” with them. In one particularly fiery exchange, Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland accused Bondi of refusing to answer his questions, prompting the attorney general to call the top Democrat on the committee a “washed-up loser lawyer — not even a lawyer.”
The political news quickly pivoted back to Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem after the Wall Street Journal published a scathing piece on her relationship with close advisor Corey Lewandowski.
According to the Journal, President Donald Trump and his advisors are “uncomfortable” with Noem and Lewandowski’s “close relationship.”
“Lewandowski had initially wanted to formally serve as Noem’s chief of staff, but Trump rejected the idea due to reports of a romantic relationship between the two—which he has continued to bring up, officials say,” it reported. “After tabloid photos of Lewandowski showed him going back and forth between his apartment and Noem’s across the street last year, the secretary moved into a government-owned waterfront house on a military base in Washington that is provided to the leader of the U.S. Coast Guard. The Coast Guard falls under Noem’s purview at DHS during peacetime. Lewandowski also spends time at the house. The DHS spokeswoman said Noem moved to the house for increased security and pays rent. Lewandowski and Noem, who are both married, have publicly denied the reports of the affair, but people said they do little to hide their relationship inside the department.”
Noem's odds of being out by March 31 shot up to 30 percent from just 7 percent on Thursday.
T.C. Jackson, Gambling911.com
