Non-Stick Pam

Pam Bondi is out as Attorney General.

Donald Trump fired her for numerous reasons one of them being her complete lack of media savviness.  The hearing in which she was forced to talk about the Epstein files and defended Trump by citing the Dow hitting 50,000 points (thanks to the Iran war, it's since gone way down for that) and referring to House members by their last names without salutations, made her like the fool she is, and even Trump understood that.  She just didn't look good on TV.

Seeing as how Trump wanted woman who was good  on television to serve as the nation's top law enforcement officer, I'm surprised he didn't appoint Pam Dawber.

But then that would make sense.  At least Pam Dawber could act like an Attorney General!

But there were a couple of other reasons Trump ousted Bondi.  No mater how corrupt she was at trying to shield Trump from the Epstein files and allowing him to break the law, she wasn't corrupt enough.  And even though she prosecuted many of Trump's enemies as part of his revenge against folks who tried to prosecute him - James Comey, Letitia James - the cases got thrown out of court.  She was not the sort of Attorney General who could successfully keep the Epstein files under wraps completely, and she did not have the necessary skills to make any cases against Trump's adversaries stick.  Now that she's gone, Trump hopes to find someone who can outdo her - and given how there are probably more federal judges out there who might make it easier for the Justice Department to prosecute Trump's enemies, like Aileen Cannon, than we might think, Trump might find the right Attorney General to do his dirty work.

For now, Trump has Assistant Attorney General Todd Blanche, one of his personal attorneys from the 2024 fraud trial, as acting Attorney General to ignore the law, and Environmental Protection Agency director Lee Zeldin, who has spent the past year and change ignoring the ecosystem, is the likeliest permanent successor to Bondi.  Whether either Blanche or Zeldin can cover up the Epstein files and fuck up Comey and James well enough to satisfy Trump remains to be seen.  (Zeldin graduated from Albany Law School, which, as far as I know, is like Ed's Law School on the late Tony Randall's eponymous late-seventies sitcom; when you have an Attorney General who holds a law degree from a school you'd never heard before he took office, expect amateur hour.)  As for Bondi, she can expect endless hours of testifying under oath once Democrats regain the House of Representatives and start investigating her and her old boss.   

And that Republican Party-friendly Italian-American group on Facebook that celebrated that Italian-American Bondi for becoming the first female attorney general appointed by a Republican President won't be talking so loudly about her in the future.