The Pamage is Done
Pam Bondi degraded, dismantled, and demoralized the Justice Department, securing her spot (until her replacement gets rolling) as the worst attorney general in recent memory. But, alas, she wasn’t bad enough. So the president is bailing on Bondi and has told Pam to scram. Is there no justice? All that corruption, all that damage to the department and her own reputation in the name of loyalty—and what did it get her? A one-way ticket to eternal Pamnation. What were her faults? In the eyes of the president, even after using up enough black redacting ink to fill the Capitol Reflecting Pool, she wasn’t protective enough of Trump when it came to the Epstein files, she wasn’t effective enough when it came to securing “indictments of people he referred to as ‘scum’ during a speech in the department’s Great Hall about a year ago,” and she wasn’t very good at communicating on TV (and we can’t have the greatest crime of all being committed by the nation’s top lawyer). NYT (Gift Article): Trump Fires Pam Bondi as Attorney General. Like many before her, Pam Bondi soiled her reputation and sold her soul for the promise of a payment to be made later by a guy famous for never paying his bills. Todd Blanche will temporarily take over for Bondi until Trump appoints a replacement. The only thing we can be more sure of than loyalty to Trump being unrequited is replacements being worse than their predecessors. After all, in 2026, the only law that really has any standing is Murphy’s Law.
+ “She took steps that his first-term attorneys general had refused to take, including attempting to prosecute his perceived enemies and hunting for evidence that he beat former President Joe Biden in the 2020 election. Bondi oversaw the firings and forced departures of scores of prosecutors and other employees who investigated Trump and his allies in recent years. She even placed a large banner of Trump’s face on the outside of the Justice Department.” WSJ (Gift Article): At Justice Department, Bondi tried to deliver on president’s priorities but ultimately failed to appease him. In other words, at this point, you’d have to be crazy to take this job. And that’s exactly what we should all be worried about.
+ Trump polled advisers about replacing Tulsi Gabbard as intelligence chief. (Gabbard almost let out some of her actual core beliefs during her recent testimony on the Iran war).
