BREAKING: Pam Bondi Reportedly to Be Ousted as AG ‘Imminently’
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She is supposed to testify about the Epstein files again on the 14th. Coincidence?
Also, there are blatant incompetents all over this administration. Notably Hegseth and Patel have both been rumored to be on the chopping block at various points. It's telling that so far only the women are being punished. And replaced with men.
And then so many con women will be as pikachu-faced as so many trad wives are right now..."wait? all that manly toxic bullshit I've been repeating as well is going to be applied to me, too?"
I'm convinced that some people are masochists.
*Nazis
Because the white bobbleheaded bimbos they put into visible positions of power were intended to be scapegoats from the beginning. You don't think this administration actually thinks women should be in politics or even respected as human beings, do you? The end goal is Handmaid's Tale.
I always view most of the females in his admin as a version of Serena.
When they show the "before times"; she is the one pitching all of the crazy; turns out she ends up just like today's trad wives seem to. The leopards ate her face....
"Women" is easier to type and doesn't make you look like a chud
that committee says she still needs to appear.
Looks like Lee Zeldin will fit right in, then
She already testified once about Epstein. Didn't amount to anything.
But this time the Dow is below 50,000. By Bondi's own rules, stuff matters again.
Seriously though, while there were no consequences for the administration other than looking dumb, she made them look really fucking dumb. She would have to answer new questions about the shady and sloppy redactions, the disappearing documents specifically related to Trump, and the fact that despite the order for full release, only around half of the files were ever made available. She already demonstrated that she can't handle pressure. I think they're worried that it could go even worse the next time.
I don't know, but I somewhat suspect that she let them, or someone, know that she's going to cover her own ass over Trump's. She'll eventually be held for contempt of Congess, whether it's while Trump is in office or after (assuming there is an after). Maybe she saw the writing on the wall that there will be consequences and got the fuck out while she could. If I'm in charge, she'd still face severe consequences, but I'm not, and I wouldn't be surprised if she faces next to none now.
Didn't amount to anything? Did you not see the DOW‽
(/s)
There was also Bovino who's been replaced. It's not been just women.
It may be nitpicking, but Bovino was just removed from leading the operation in Minneapolis. He kept his job and was allowed to retire. He was rumored to have been headed for retirement before the ops fuckups in MN. I'm sure that the administration hastened his timeline, but he was spared the indignity of a public firing.
I had forgotten how that went down exactly. Thank you for pointing that out.
The exception that proves the rule.
Aren't blondes his type though? You'd think he'd stack his administration with them, Like a bunch of Karoline Leavitt / Kayleigh Mcannany clones.
Next AG pick: Tomi Lahren
If he hires people that are incompetent, his followers won't notice he's demented and also incompetent.
Aaaaannnddd....
Shes gone. BBC News - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cd9gjwdw9ygt Pam Bondi out as Trump's attorney general - BBC News
The Dow is only at 46,000, you gotta go Pam.
I'm sure she can find a new career as a lot lizard somewhere on the gulf coast.
So... from professional lapses to prolapses?
Pam Blondi, Real Estate broker on duty.
Now I hope we can bring her to justice. She still needs to be held accountable.
THIS is the Thanks she gets for spending her ENTIRE CAREER defending Child Raping Pedophiles? TERRIBLE!
-Republican Voters!
A cushy private sector job and the ability to say fuck all about anything when she's supposed to be interviewed again less than 2 weeks from now? And gets to escape any accountability for treason?
These right wing ghouls always manage to stick around. They're like cockroaches. Look at how many of the exact same people who lied us into Iraq are still being featured in the news programs, this time selling the Iran war. Those people should have died in prison for the thousands of innocent lives they took. Instead they're still alive, free, and able to go out in public without people throwing rocks at them.
The thanks she is getting is failing upwards into a highly paid private sector job. I think she’ll be just fine
I have no idea how anyone, no matter how shitty they are, go to work for this asshole. They burn up any last shred of dignity or respect they may have had and almost all of them get thrown under the bus eventually anyway.
You have to be a special kind of terrible AND stupid to do anything for Taco.
It cannot be good for your sanity to write these several times a day my dude.
Nothing lost, and she’ll be replaced with another just like her, so nothing gained.
The snake has many heads.
The only way to defeat the hydra is with fire.
They will all be replaced, none of these clowns overthrowing the Republic will remain in their positions, they will all be replaced, one way, or backstabbing others. It's a nest of vipers.
Well, about the only catharsis we get is watching the most awful people stab each other in the back.
Bondi should be in jail. But Trump's complaints are incredible here. They were:
So the lesson to Zeldin (and Rubio and anyone else still trying to ride the power train) is: sycophancy isn't enough. It's not enough to swear on your life that the naked emperor has clothes and maintain the lie even in the face of basic grade-school knowledge.
No, Zeldin will be tasked to gouge out the eyes of anyone who might be able to see it.
Don't forget that Zeldin will be forced to wear ill-fitting Florsheims.....
I wonder if she gets to keep the burn book or any of her favorite Epstein files as a memento
And if so it would be a real shame if any of that were to leak. I mean it would serve him right for removing such an obviously competent and loyal AG.
But that would be unconscionable. Right?
Bondi's jail sentence could be until the DOW is back above 50 000. 🤣
Not a victory, he'll just scrape the barrel deeper for the next moron.
I do think it’s somewhat a victory. These types of jobs come with a lot of process knowledge that is very important to be effective. The more turnover in these roles, the more time they have to spend getting up to speed on how things work and the less they can accomplish. The less they can accomplish, the better off the country will be. I figure (guesstimate) that it impacts department productivity by at least 10% which is better than nothing.
Next stop - prosecution.
Then once convicted, execution for treason and sedition.
No. The state should not have the power to kill its own people.
An angry mob can do the job just fine.
oooh you talkin bout getting Ceaușescu'd?
Write that in a newspaper under your real name then, coward
this is a Wendy's
Sir, this a Lemmy's
USSR right?
I really hate the media reports of "Trump was upset of her handling of the Epstein files" as a reason.
Her Congressional testimony was weeks ago, Trump doesn't even remember that.
Yesterday, Trump had to watch his best prosecutor getting grilled by Gorsuch, who asked if Native Americans would be considered birthright citizens, and after some hemming and hawing, and offering up some very weak comebacks, the MAGA lawyer said he'd "have to give it some thought."
Shouldn't he have done that BEFORE appearing in front of SCOTUS? He didn't anticipate a question about Native American citizenship?
The day before, Trump had claimed that Birthright Citizenship was ONLY about giving citizenship to the black babies of black slaves (someone's been talking to PeeWee Himmler) even though they aren't mentioned at all in the actual text:
Even Alito was questioning whether it was composed to cover only those they were thinking of at the time, or everyone into the future, and since it doesn't mention slaves at all, the answer seems pretty obvious. If they wanted it to ONLY cover Slaves, they would have explicitly said so, and not completely ignored any language at all that would make it clear, relying on future Supreme Court justices to rely on trying to read the minds and intentions of long dead legislators.
Even between dozes, a dolt like Trump could see how poorly prepared they were to present his most important electoral issue to SCOTUS. Of course they were awful, the entire administration is virtuosically incompetent. He was hoping to intimidate the justices, but even Alito didn't seem to be on his side.
After, he and Bondi must have talked about it, and he hates confrontation except for media women, so he probably said everything was okay, judging by the chummy photos they took together. But when he got back to the White House, they probably let him know how bad it was, and he realized that it was as worse than he thought.
He watched his most important initiative tank, and he blamed her.
People are saying he'll fire Hegseth next, but he never will. When the time comes, Hegseth will enthusiastically order his troops to fire on American citizens. He'd even launch a nuke, if Trump wanted it. That kind of psychotic loyalty is too valuable for a Dictator to squander.
Bondi seemed to be there. She just never had any cards to actually implement the insane shit. Kegsbreath with a nuke doesn't have to convince judge/law to use it.
She's too old for Donald. Always was, but now his followers are cool with his pedophilia, he feels he no longer has to hide it.
One neo-Nazi Pedo Protector gets booted out and the next one is already lining up.
The next one is sidling up to pam with a hunting knife to slide it into her kidney. Welcome to fascism bitch!
Maybe her husband likes wearing fake tits too
I'll believe it when I see itok I see it
If only we lived in a better timeline where she leaked the Epstein Files as revenge.
I mean she still has time Edit nevermind
She was supposed to testify again soon.
This is them fucking with congress.
That’s all.
She still
hasis supposed to on the 14th. I'm 100% sire that she'll try some bullshit and almost as certain that this feckless and toothless congress will let it slide.It would be hilarious if she turns on Trump after being fired, but then she'd be admitting she lied in the first place. Plus she probably is a bit too cowardly to do it anyway.
If I were her I would demand a pardon, in my hand, before testifying anywhere.
Replaced by Todd Blanche who was a registered democrat until 2024
Todd, we need you to stop cosplaying and come back, we have some work for you.
Sent to a farm upstate. Er, the private sector.
Hopefully the DOW! is high enough for her to land work...probably attacking all things American while protecting pedophiles?
Another victim of the Dow dropping below 50,000.
Trump's dementia taking over? It must be bizarre taking orders from a guy who barely understand what is going on around him. Now that he starts lashing out at his own people, will they finally decide to remove him?
Bondi probably has the goods on Trump. Firing her isn't too smart...
Whoa. I'm actually legit surprised by this. She was Trump's fiercest advocate and seemed to me like perfect combination of spite and hate and snark that he would love in his AG
He surrounds himself with loyalists because he needs ablative armor.
And nothing of value was lost. Same result when this administration will finally be ousted. Same result when Trump dies. Same result when his family and all the MAGA morons fade into obscurity or die. I just hope I'm alive to see it happen and I will drink and dance when this nightmare is finally over.
Didn't even last a year. Thank God.
No, a bit more than a year. By my calculations, she lasted about 41 Mooches....
Ding! Dong! The Witch is dead! It's a great day in Munchkin Land!
womp womp.
What was her husband's surprise fetish or have they announced it yet
Nothing is progress according to lemmy.world
Some of you really need to go outside more often
You think replacing Bondi with Blanche is "progress"?
Reminder that Blanche was Trump's defense attorney in multiple trials, and Blanche was the one who interviewed Ghislane Maxwell last year before she got moved to the cushy puppy prison.
I do. Todd Blanche is nothing, just a jumped up criminal defense lawyer. You seem to be unaware that people of conscience walking out of Trump's administration on the justice side has already resulted in major losses for the administration, because he replaces them with talentless hacks whose sole qualification is loyalty to himself.
Two state AGs, Alina Habba and Lindsey Halligan, have been forced out of their illegally held positions as a result.
And at least two revenge prosecution cases near and dear to the orange pustule, those of James Comey and Letitia James, were also thrown out because of the sheer incompetence of the lackeys appointed to the positions vacated by people of conscience. But that hasn't stopped them from trying, except they're so incredibly shitty at what they do now they can't even get grand juries to indict.
I'm not even counting how almost all the career prosecutors walking out of the Minnesota AG office completely crippled the DoJ's goal of investigating and charging Renee Good's wife, as well as stopped in its tracks any hope of making that state a showpiece of legal retribution against its many activists and protesters, which is what investigating and (they hoped) charging Good's wife would have kicked off for them.
All gone, simply because the people with experience and a working conscience left and took their combined experience and institutional knowledge with them.
All of this, including Bondi's firing, is yet another stake in the heart of this administration's revenge prosecution program. And wherever it happens, high or low, it's a BIG step forward in making sure the fascists are crippled from using the courts as tools of control and retribution against the rest of us.
TL;DR: When all a "leader" values is loyalty and everything else is a distant third -- like prosecutorial expertise in a HIGHLY technical field such as criminal law -- they should expect their opposition to rejoice when they've fired someone even fractionally competent, because it's a complete own-goal that will pay off royally for anyone in opposition to the administration.
I totally agree that people of conscience resigning from DoJ and other positions of power is a good thing. I'm well aware of what you said, despite your condescending suggestion. I just don't see how that is relevent to the firing of Bondi.
What gives you the impression that Bondi is fractionally competent, and what gives you confidence that her replacement will be less competent?
She actually has experience, if not discernible skill, at heading a government legal agency: she was Florida AG 2011 - 2019. Before that she was a prosecutor with actual litigation experience who appears to have come up the ranks. She was also able to use her position to enrich herself and protect Trump, which may seem easy on the face of it, in Florida especially, but there are still various obstacles like competent judges, opposing attorneys, and state laws to navigate, which she did. She also argued against the appointments of both Habba and Halligan, which suggests she understood what a train wreck that was going to be, but was overruled by Trump.
That is a LOW fucking bar, lol. It's like asking if a cockroach can excel at limbo. So regardless of who is ultimately chosen, "Yes."
Are you suggesting otherwise? I don't share your faith that Bondi was too incompetent to be easily bested in incompetence by any replacement chosen. As I said above,
I said that because almost all of Trump's legal picks share a specific characteristic, and it's not smarts. And there's another thing to consider: this appointment may be different because he picks men when he "wants something done" and women when he wants a meat shield, but specifically when it comes to picking disposable attorneys, Trump evaluates legal talent with his eyes.
He's an interim appointment, Lee is the likely successor. And yes, failure in this administration on all levels is progress
Ha ha, ashes to ashes and dust to dust, your stupid fucking face is melting into pus. Go to hell bitch.