MS NOW host reveals one thing Pam Bondi's 'legally sick' DOJ couldn't destroy
The story of Attorney General Pam Bondi's rise, fall, and firing is the story of the Trump administration failing to bend the federal courts to their will, said MS NOW's Ari Melber on Friday — and taking it out on the woman given that impossible task.
"Washington is still absorbing Trump's firing of Attorney General Bondi yesterday after a brief 14 months on the job, and she was often overshadowed in terms of what her general duties required by her key failures on Epstein," said Melber. "As part of Trump's steady drip of frustrations with her, the journal reports, Bondi stoked expectations about releasing an Epstein client list. She raised the bar on herself and then later, basically all but conceded she was lying, just as she lied to MAGA influencers by handing them binders claiming to contain Epstein files, which did not a kind of fraud against your own base, daring them to speak out."
But Epstein was just the start of it, said Melber, because Bondi also oversaw "a DOJ that was losing in court."
"Now, that's often because Trump's demands are flatly illegal," said Melber. "Troops in the streets. Global tariffs without Congress. Abusing power to try to indict critics with no evidence. So Bondi's demise is also a story about the courts working, and sometimes the way these things go down and the way the Washington elites and some of the media, quite frankly, talk about it."
"We could miss that," he added. "We get into the personalities or what's happening next before making sure we understand that 14 months just went by. There was a lot of failures, you see, just a slight selection, handful of headlines about those failures on your screen. But this is a story as well about the courts working, albeit slowly. It's a story and a development about Trump losing, admitting it in public, having to replace his AG, and the rule of law holding."
"Bondi did not win a single case in Trump's vendetta to try to make the DOJ a sword against enemies, and Politico reports, that was part of Trump's decision to oust her," said Melber. "And the good news for the rule of law tonight is that Bondi's replacement faces the exact same judges, courts and rules of evidence that dealt her all of these losses in an almost absurdly long list of Trump enemies. We put this up before tonight. It has a new relevance. But over the 14 months they've opened all these cases, the green stamps show DOJ cases that already fell apart. Some others remain open as lawmakers are subpoenaed and harassed. Journalists and government vets awaiting trial."
"So let me be clear about what this news means," Melber concluded. "It's a sign of a legally sick DOJ that so many of these faltering and failed cases were ever opened at all. But it's also a sign of a reasonably healthy court system in America right now that we know the facts and the evidence basically kneecapped these plots, to Trump's great frustration."
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