Attorney general was key part of effort to go after enemies but even she could not satisfy whims of mercurial president

Pam Bondi’s swift dismissal on Thursday underscores a reality that has met Trump loyalists from Jeff Sessions to Kristi Noem – no amount of loyalty is enough to save oneself from being dumped by Donald Trump.

Since the president assumed office last year, there have been few people more important to his effort to remake government than Bondi, his longtime friend.

Trump pledged that retribution would be the hallmark of his second term, and Bondi was the chief enforcer from her first day in office. As attorney general, she obliterated the longstanding norm that the justice department be apolitical and keep the White House at arm’s length. She oversaw purges of career employees who had been assigned to work on the criminal cases against Trump as well as scores of career lawyers with irreplaceable expertise. She also oversaw politically motivated prosecutions against Trump’s political enemies, including the former FBI director James Comey and New York attorney general, Letitia James.

  • Kushan@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    2 hours ago

    I am not convinced she was dumped. She’s walking directly into some cushy “private sector” role. She did the job that trump asked her to do and that’s her reward.

    She’s the fall guy for sure but that was entirely by design and I’m sure she’s well aware of that. But who cares if everyone hates you when you got your golden ticket.

    • pomegranatefern@sh.itjust.works
      1·
      2 hours ago

      I find myself wondering if her cushy “private sector” exit is a direct result of her having seen the fully unredacted Epstein Files. Trump knows he can’t piss her off enough to spill those beans.

  • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    5 hours ago

    You have to be a very special kind of dumbass not to realize this.

    I guess every single one of them thinks they are special, just before the rug pull by the malignant narcissist.

    • Ech@lemmy.ca
      3·
      5 hours ago

      Everyone under that toad gets sent under the bus sooner or later. But that he’s replaced them both with men? That says plenty.