Pam Bondi put her own career on death row — and should now rot in prison
It was always going to end like this for Pam Bondi, much like it does for everyone in Donald Trump’s orbit. Eventually, you do something to upset him and you’re sent packing precisely as she was on Thursday.
Bondi was just another useful idiot who somehow thought she was special. But they never are. She was handpicked to protect Trump from the Epstein Files, from his enemies, from himself. She destroyed her reputation and dismantled the Justice Department in his name. But then the machine she helped build turned on her and ate her alive.
But in this case, Pamela got what she deserved. Oh, did she ever. When you’re the guardian angel of pedophiles, no one is there to catch you when you fall. And man, did Bondi fall. She fell as hard as a human being can.
The ending was so poetic that it deserves to be its own musical: Bye Bye Bondi.
Kicked to the curb with only the vaguest of promises of some cushy private-sector landing spot, Bondi is said to have cried and begged the president to reconsider. But the monster she served so faithfully wouldn’t listen, even if his Truth Social farewell made it sound like she was being promoted:
“Pam Bondi is a Great American Patriot and a loyal friend, who faithfully served as my Attorney General over the past year. Pam did a tremendous job overseeing a massive crackdown in Crime across our Country, with Murders plummeting to their lowest level since 1900. We love Pam, and she will be transitioning to a much needed and important job in the private sector, to be announced at a date in the near future…”
Yes, this job is so “important” it’s unclear exactly what it is or when it’s happening.
But shed no tears for Bombastic Bondi. This was a woman who could not even be bothered to turn her head to look at the Epstein victims during her hearing before Congress. That photo will be the enduring image of her tenure, a lingering disgrace that vividly illustrated her loyalty was to neither the United States nor its citizens but to one man and one man only.
Bondi had to go because she wasn’t quite protective enough. The Epstein stench remained tied to Trump like secondhand smoke, and none of her smugly defiant bluster could make it go away. And so now she must go away, her humiliation complete. She chose to annihilate herself for a human being who was interested only in using her before spitting her out like so much chewed gum.
What Bondi seemed to forget was that her job had nothing to do with her fancy title. It was merely to serve/shield Trump and get even with his enemies who failed to properly bow down to The King. I’m talking specifically about James Comey and Letitia James, whose indictments were both tossed out by a federal judge. Seems that it’s tough to land indictments against people who haven’t come close to breaking the actual law. Who knew?
The Daily Mail in London also reported that Trump finally needed to dump Pernicious Pammy because she allegedly tipped off Congressman and California Gubernatorial candidate (and friend) Eric Swalwell about FBI documents related to his association with an alleged Chinese spy a few decades ago.
But in fact, her ouster seemed most tied to the way she mishandled the Epstein cover-up. It wasn’t that she participated in transparent criminality. That’s a gold star in the Trump sphere. No, it’s because she bungled the process so badly that it drew more attention and scrutiny and continued public pressure than the administration was comfortable fielding.
Bottom line: Bondi didn’t make the furor over the files (and Trump’s ongoing association with them) go away. So, Republicans in Congress privately lobbied for her to go and be replaced by a fresh lackey: the ultimate yes man, Todd Blanche.
In Trump’s universe, women are a necessary evil but in no way a respected piece of the presidential puzzle. They are inserted primarily to project the illusion that Trump values and respects women, when nothing could be further from the truth. When it’s time to purge, they are the first to go.
It’s no coincidence that they are now beginning to be shown the door en masse. First, it was Kristi Noem’s canning as Secretary of Homeland Security. Now, it’s Bondi. Next on the chopping block is likely to be Tulsi Gabbard, the Director of National Intelligence.
Much as the women in Trump’s personal life are disposable, so too are those in his work life. At the first sign of insubordination or not completely toeing the Trump line, they are informed of being on thin ice and ultimately summarily jettisoned.
This is not to say these three women in particular don’t deserve to be dumped. It’s just that the men do, too, but somehow get to stick around. I’m looking at you, Secretary of Defense Pete “Do It For Jesus” Hegseth, and FBI Director Kash “Party Hearty” Patel.
But back to Bondi.
She made her own bed. She incinerated the U.S. Constitution she took an oath to serve. She betrayed her country, her duty, her gender, and the law itself in the malicious service of a tyrant.
There has never been such a corrupt Attorney General in American history. And that’s quite a statement when you consider that John Mitchell – in service to President Richard Nixon and the Watergate scandal – went to prison for 19 months and was disbarred from practicing law.
At the very least, a similar fate should await Bondi.
It’s the rest of us who should be crying that the nation was subjected to Pam Bondi at all. She did everything in her power to obliterate democracy. Her reward should be confinement in a penitentiary.
Ray Richmond is a longtime journalist/author and an adjunct professor at Chapman University in Orange, CA.