Trump Fires Attorney General Pam Bondi For Not Making His Vindictive Fantasies A Reality
from the bring-in-the-next-scapegoat! dept
You’re never safe when you’re working for Trump. That much was obvious in Trump’s first term, when he fired Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, National Security Advisor John Bolton, and FBI Director James Comey. They were all fired for the same reason: failing to be completely loyal to Trump.
This time around even die-hard MAGA loyalists are being fired. DHS head Kristi Noem was dismissed from her position, despite being the enthusiastic figurehead of anti-migrant cruelty Trump definitely wanted in that position. Now, she’s cooling her heels and watching the dust settle on her political hopes as the doesn’t-sound-made-up-at-all “Special Envoy for the Shield of the Americas.”
Less than a month later, another head has rolled. This time it’s Pam Bondi, who’s getting fired for failing to do the impossible while still remaining fiercely loyal to the Trump’s lost causes.
In recent weeks, Ms. Bondi tried to shore up her position by moving more aggressively against investigative targets singled out by Mr. Trump, including the former Obama official John O. Brennan and a former White House aide, Cassidy Hutchinson, whom the president has accused of lying about his actions on Jan. 6, 2021, according to officials briefed on the effort.
It is not entirely clear if any specific action or event finally tipped the balance for Mr. Trump, who had been reluctant to fire senior officials to avoid reprising the chaotic turnstile personnel turnover of his first administration.
But with the dismissal of Ms. Noem and now Ms. Bondi, that might be changing. His calculus appears to have shifted after the quick confirmation of Markwayne Mullin as Ms. Noem’s replacement.
Bondi’s head may have been destined for the chopping block months ago, when Trump (in what appeared to be a personal message accidentally posted on main) berated Bondi for not doing all the impossible stuff he wanted done right now, like engaging in vindictive prosecutions that were (1) obviously vindictive, and (2) didn’t have enough evidence to support the hallucinatory charges dreamed up by Trump and his DOJ enablers.
Nothing has improved since then. Lots of prosecutors have left the DOJ, refusing to engage in Trump’s overt politicization of the department. Others have been dismissed for the same reason. A handful of handpicked prosecutors have been sidelined by judges because they were never formally appointed. And grand juries are frequently refusing to buy what the government’s selling, terminating prosecutions before they can even get off the ground.
Not that we should expect anything better (or more ethical) from her replacement. Todd Blanche is a true Trump loyalist. But he’s taking over a DOJ that’s short on experience, long on MAGA loyalty, and whose reputation has been completely destroyed by this administration and its actions.
The stuff Bondi failed to get done will continue to not happen. Anyone stepping into this position should know it’s only going to be temporary. The president who thinks he’s a king will continue to see courts stifle his worst impulses. Changing the name on the letterhead isn’t suddenly going to make vindictive, politically motivated prosecutions any more legal or feasible.
But I don’t have any sympathy for anyone being shit-canned for failing to satisfy the whims of a megalomaniac who thinks he’s a king, rather than a temporarily elevated politician. They’re far more than merely complicit. They’re fully supportive of destroying America and its institutions to usher in a new age of white Christian nationalism. So, fuck ’em. They got what they deserved.
Filed Under: doj, epstein files, failure, pam bondi, todd blanche, trump administration, vindictive prosecution
Comments on “Trump Fires Attorney General Pam Bondi For Not Making His Vindictive Fantasies A Reality”
Again Donald, stop using words with more than two syllables, they’re a part of the English language that you know nothing about.
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“I found much that was alarming about being a citizen during the tenures of Richard Nixon and George W. Bush. But, whatever I may have seen as their limitations of character or intellect, neither was anything like as humanly impoverished as Trump is: ignorant of government, of history, of science, of philosophy, of art, incapable of expressing or recognizing subtlety or nuance, destitute of all decency, and wielding a vocabulary of seventy-seven words that is better called Jerkish than English.”
— Philip Roth
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Motherfucker doesn’t even like dogs.
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It wouldn’t surprise me if it was mutual.
Leopard, meet face.
Disagree.
Because of being fired with a pension after getting a humongous pay check?
They will get what they deserved once they serve time for aiding and abetting a traitor to the Constitution.
Or Trump just felt like firing someone. Let’s not pretend our chaotic president is basing decisions on “reasons” per se (other than personal mood), or that the statements about these decisions have any relation to reality.
I am fairly confident that they still deserve to be put someplace where they would not have the opportunity to harm anyone ever again.
Regime regiming.
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But now Bondi and Noem need to be destroyed like Osama bin Laden and never eat anything in this world.
And we also need to see Stephen Miller get his eyes shot out by a shotgun.
Re: Let's not go there.
Let’s not descend to that level.
We can be better; we should be better; we must be better than that.
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You’ll have to forgive them; they’re a right-wing provocateur who’s posting ridiculous bullshit like that in the hopes of getting someone here to agree with/endorse their bullshit so they can go “look at the violent leftists trying to depose the government”.
Trump suurounds himself with incompetent toadies. Someone to blame when things go wrong. Next, I suppose Hegseth will get the blame for the war crimes being committed…
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Maybe, but I can’t help but notice something Noem and Bondi have in common that Hegseth doesn’t, and I’m thinking Gabbard’s probably next.
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Reminds me of how, for all the crimes committed by and in the orbit of Jeffrey Epstein, the only person alive who has been held responsible for those crimes is Ghislaine Maxwell.
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My thought exactly.
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Noem got canned for that $200mil ad contract that didn’t include a ‘Trump wets his beak’ clause. Dunno what Ms. Bondi got it for – probably something very similar that may come out soon.
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Scuttlebutt from across the political spectrum says Bondi got shitcanned for her (mis)handling of the Epstein files and her inability to secure successful prosecutions (and in many cases, indictments) of Trump’s political enemies. The only person who truly knows the reason is Trump, but given his obvious neurological issues, I don’t think even he knows for sure any more.
'Here's your new seat, pay no attention to the blood and flesh scraps...'
Every Trump toady is sure that no matter what happened to their predecessor(s), no matter how wet the metaphorical blood on their seat still is when they take it they are special, their face is not and will never be on the menu because unlike all those other meals they understand that all they need to do is be subservient and loyal enough and they’ll be safe from the leopards…
… And it never stops being funny when they inevitably find out how wrong they are and that there is in fact only one face not on the menu and it’s not theirs.
I love it when current events remind me Stalinist Russia. The disdain and politicization of expertise; the expansion of a secret police infrastructure; and the purging of the party elite are indicative of heady and exciting times ahead. My only qualm is the lack of Administrative talent, but I’m being kinda unfair. It’s tough to measure up to Stalin in that regard. He could really burn the candle at both ends, that guy ( probs helped he was one of the few with regular access to candles 😜).