Why does Bondi go along with it, or not try to defend her rep here?

I sure hope there's a Plan B.

Is Trump himself implicated? I don't think so because he consistently pushed Epstein for years, unprompted. To push for the disclosure of himself as a child molester as some kind of power gambit, even as a bluff, would be the most insane thing anyone has done in politics.

Yes based on everything that's happened in the past decade I find that even less likely than the zogbot Manchurian candidate angle. Either way I don't think it could possibly be something as simple as "oh boy he's on the list guys!"