Pam Bondi’s swift dismissal on Thursday underscores a reality that has met Trump loyalists from Jeff Sessions to Kristi Noem – no amount of loyalty is enough to save oneself from being dumped by Donald Trump.
Since the president assumed office last year, there have been few people more important to his effort to remake government than Bondi, his longtime friend.
Trump pledged that retribution would be the hallmark of his second term, and Bondi was the chief enforcer from her first day in office. As attorney general, she obliterated the longstanding norm that the justice department be apolitical and keep the White House at arm’s length. She oversaw purges of career employees who had been assigned to work on the criminal cases against Trump as well as scores of career lawyers with irreplaceable expertise. She also oversaw politically motivated prosecutions against Trump’s political enemies, including the former FBI director James Comey and New York attorney general, Letitia James.
Money won’t buy you happiness, Corruption Barbie.
Oh, for sure. Their souls are so black that Anish Kapoor has exclusive rights.
But I wonder sometimes - if they are too stupid to not understand that money isn’t happiness, does it matter? If they wake up every day in that bed of money thinking, “Oh, I’m so glad. Integrity is for those woke morons. Their tears were the perfect seasoning for my caviar, creme fraiche and blini breakfast. Truly I made all the right choices, and was chosen by God,” then does it make a difference?
I know we’re probably not even putting them in a metal box in this lifetime, but dream with me for a moment: If somehow we were able to impose a punishment on them that included the duty to feel shame, we’d probably need to teach them what shame is before they could even serve their time.
Okay, that got a gut laugh out of me, I’ll have to use this one later on.
A bit esoteric for these plebeians and ne’er do wells.
You can’t make a blind person see.
The guy who wrote Trump’s ‘Art of the Deal’ for him made out like a bandit, and could have ridden the gravy train for years. Instead he left Trump’s orbit as soon as he could and spent the rest of his life regretting his choice to get involved in the first place.
When they are punished, they’ll tell you that it’s politics, and you’d have done exactly what they did.