In the months since assuming the office of U.S. attorney general, Pam Bondi has made it clear she is not our chief lawyer but serves the whims of President Donald Trump and the MAGA world.
This has been true throughout her reign. It includes her support of the mass pardons of the Jan. 6, 2021, rioters at the U.S. Capitol. The pardons took place just before she took office. She also helped militarize U.S. law enforcement in American cities, including the District of Columbia.
Far too often, Bondi’s application of her position, which is supposed to be serving the American people, has not followed the law and nakedly favored Trump’s lawless agenda.
Don Kusler
Under Bondi, parts of the Justice Department opened investigations and seek prosecutions for Trump’s and MAGA’s perceived enemies. Fueled mainly by Trump’s rage and dubious conspiracy theories, people such as former President Barack Obama, former FBI Director James Comey and former CIA Director John Brennan find themselves under the crosshairs of Bondi’s advocacy for Trump, not the American people. Former Trump national security adviser-turned Trump critic John Bolton just had his home raided by the FBI.
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Add to the list New York Attorney General Letitia James and senators Chuck Schumer and Adam Schiff, Democrats of New York and California.
Bondi is even carrying water for Trump against those who dared to serve the people, such as former Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Director Chris Krebs and former national security official Miles Taylor. Both worked in the first Trump administration, and their “crime,” as Trump and Bondi see it, is that they told the truth and did their jobs.
As the U.S. attorney general, Bondi oversees the workforce at the Department of Justice. Her tenure has seen the firing, pushing out and resignations of many experienced lawyers and investigators. This includes virtually anyone associated with probes into and prosecutions of Trump’s lawlessness.
Those who worked with Special Counsel Jack Smith on Trump prosecutions have been demoted or sent packing. The same is true for FBI leaders and agents who worked on investigations involving Trump. The Public Corruption Division got cleared out.
Many Justice officials have left in the wake of Bondi's unprofessional behavior. The result of these actions is not in the interest of justice, law enforcement or the American people.
Bondi’s “Justice” Department also dropped cases, often without explanation, against Trump, his friends and MAGA allies. She’s overseen dropping cases against Boeing related to the 737MAX crashes, New York City Mayor Eric Adams’ corruption, Voting Rights Act violations and cases about environmental law.
The militarization of federal law enforcement to appease Trump’s authoritarian tendencies, most recently in the District of Columbia but with apparent aims at other Democrat-run cities, is a dangerous step that terrorizes people and misdirects law enforcement resources.
Then there’s the Jeffrey Epstein case. Before and after taking over the Justice Department, Bondi talked about the Epstein case and related theories that the files contained information protecting influential people who may have been involved in sex trafficking. Bondi reportedly found out and then informed Trump his name appears in the files. Then, weeks later, instead of releasing the files as repeatedly promised, Bondi released already public information and declared the files did not contain anything new, and the work was finished.
We do not yet know what these files may have revealed about Trump or others, but it might have elements of a cover-up.
Dropping key criminal cases, running out “disloyal” employees, opening clearly political probes -- all to serve Trump and MAGA -- defies Bondi’s oath and job function.
Bondi is Trump’s top personal lawyer, putting revenge and MAGA conspiracies first, not the top lawyer for the American people.
