#TuckFrumpPam Bondi Proves That for Trump, You Can’t Debase Yourself Enough #MotherJones https://twp.ai/E6HGvC
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Of all the rot that flowed from Pam Bondi’s tenure leading the Justice Department under Donald Trump’s second term, the one that will be remembered beyond this political moment is likely to be her February 2026 hearing before the House Judiciary Committee. It was there that the attorney general, now former, approached congressional oversight like a vulgar cage fight. “You’re a washed-up, loser lawyer, [https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/09/trump-pam-bondi-justice-department-tom-homan-bribery/]” Bondi told Maryland Rep. Jamie Raskin, the top Democrat on the committee. “You’re not even a lawyer.” Coming from the highest law enforcement officer in the country, the taunt was absurd, the stuff of reality television theatrics intended to please our reality television president. And it was easy to see why. Bondi was testifying before Congress about the Justice Department’s handling of the Epstein files, a source of abject rage [https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/11/trump-epstein-vote-quiet-piggy/] for the president. And Bondi, who angered both Democrats and Republicans with her conduct over the files, couldn’t afford a bad performance. So there she was, effectively punching her way through a congressional hearing. “They are trying to deflect from all the great things Donald Trump has done,” Bondi snarled in another moment from the February hearing. None of which ended up boosting her favorability. On Thursday, two months after the hearing, Trump fired Bondi anyway, claiming in a Truth Social post that she was relocating to an “important job in the private sector.” The ouster comes almost exactly one month after the president fired Kristi Noem, another fierce loyalist, after the former Homeland Security Secretary reportedly pissed him off [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGpesbjUAwQ] with her own congressional performance. Together, the firings once again underscored a singular Trumpian truth: that you’re useful to Donald Trump until you’re not. That this is a man who does not hesitate to discard anyone, no matter how much they’ve contorted themselves for the job. For Bondi, those contortions came in the form of constant debasing, both of herself as a seasoned law enforcement official, and the Justice Department, where, in little over a year, she politicized the department to the point of transforming it into the president’s personal law firm [https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/09/trump-pam-bondi-justice-department-tom-homan-bribery/]. All while shredding her already thin credibility—she did, after all, serve in Trump’s defense team during his 2020 impeachment hearings—in the process. And for what? An “important job in the private sector,” it turns out. “You’re about as good of a lawyer today as you were when you tried to impeach President Trump,” Bondi told Rep. Dan Goldman (D-N.Y.) at the February hearing. It turns out that in Trumpworld, you’re only as good as your least bad congressional performance. — From Mother Jones [https://www.motherjones.com/] via this RSS feed [https://www.motherjones.com/feed/]
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