Trump fired Bondi because he wants a more unjust Justice Department |
Trump fired Bondi because he wants a more unjust Justice Department
President Trump, who treats the Justice Department as if it were his personal law firm, fired Attorney General Pam Bondi because she failed to weaponize the department sufficiently. He wanted her to vindictively prosecute his enemies as effectively as he demanded, and she failed. She also failed to make the Jeffrey Epstein scandal go away.
Trump refuses to accept that the job of the attorney general is to represent the government and people of the U.S., upholding the law and the interests of justice on a nonpartisan basis, independent of the president.
The president insists that his attorney general launch politicized prosecutions and lawsuits that serve his interests, creating an unjust Justice Department.
Trump fired Attorney General Jeff Sessions in 2018 for not sufficiently corrupting the Justice Department. He has now fired Bondi for the same reason.
Bondi did her best to please Trump, carrying out his orders and frequently lavishing praise on him, bordering on buffoonery. Consider the time she absurdly called him “the greatest president in American history” at a House Judiciary Committee hearing in February.
To further curry favor with Trump, Bondi fired many experienced Justice Department lawyers whom she considered insufficiently loyal to the president or who had been involved in investigations of Trump under Special Counsel Jack Smith.
In addition, during Bondi’s first six months as attorney general the Justice Department dropped investigations of more than 23,000 criminal cases to focus instead on Trump’s obsession with immigration enforcement.
Similarly, FBI Director Kash Patel fired FBI agents who had worked on investigations of Trump and........