Pam Bondi’s Many, Many, Many Failures |
Sometimes if both sides are angry at you, you’re doing something right. Other times, everyone simply agrees that you’re awful — as Pam Bondi has shown us throughout her historically disastrous tenure as attorney general.
Bondi’s ouster as AG marks a rare moment of bipartisan consensus. President Donald Trump plainly doesn’t see Bondi’s tenure as any kind of success as he ushers her out the door after just over a year on the job — the shortest of any confirmed AG since the Watergate era. Democrats (and others) cheered Trump’s decision to dispatch Bondi, though for widely varying reasons.
Partisans on both sides concur that Bondi’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein matter has been a debacle. The AG can blame herself for bringing the Epstein case back to wide public attention, as she strode into office promising to reveal shocking information about the notorious child sex trafficker and his network. In February 2025, when asked on Fox News about the Epstein “client list,” Bondi infamously boasted, “It’s sitting on my desk right now to review.” (She later claimed she meant some unspecified set of the Epstein documents and not necessarily a specific smoking-gun document.)
Then followed a whiplash-inducing series of fits and starts. Bondi........