Bondi Gets Canned, But Lawmakers Want to Depose Her Over Epstein Files

If the yardstick for attorneys general is whether they impartially applied the law and insulated the Department of Justice from political influences, then Pam Bondi was probably the worst person ever to hold that position. In her brief tenure, she spearheaded an unprecedented weaponization of DOJ, purged the department of employees who helped prosecute Donald Trump, protected the president from embarrassing disclosures, and used flimsy pretexts to prosecute his perceived adversaries.

And it still wasn’t enough.

On Thursday, Trump announced in a social media post that he had fired his attorney general.

While he called Bondi a “great American patriot and a loyal friend,” the president reportedly got rid of her for failing to adequately, in his eyes, punish his nemeses. For example, high-profile cases against former FBI Director James Comey and New York’s Attorney General Letitia James went nowhere.

Bondi leaves behind a department in shambles.

She oversaw an exodus of career employees who didn’t want to be part of its weaponization, and DOJ, which usually boasts an outstanding success rate in court, keeps losing in court as it has to represent the most lawless administration in history.

Democrats celebrated the news of her dismissal.

“The attorney general has the best lawyer’s job in America. The mission is justice, and the clients are the American people,” said Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), the ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee. “But Pam Bondi abandoned that mission, indeed never accepted it. She never acted as anything but Donald Trump’s personal criminal defense and personal injury attorney, transforming the people’s Department of Justice into the President’s private instrument of vengeance, targeting his critics with a bureaucracy of vendetta while canceling out justice for his favored political friends and allies.”

The lawmaker also left no doubt that Bondi still owes Congress some answers about her (mis)handling of the Epstein files.

“Her firing today is long overdue, but it does not erase the damage done, and it does not absolve her of accountability,” Raskin stated. “Democrats in Congress will continue to investigate, expose, and hold Pam Bondi and others at DOJ accountable for their serial abuses of power and their betrayals of the Constitution.”

After being subpoenaed last month, Bondi is scheduled to sit for a deposition on April 14, and both Democrats and Republicans who want her to answer their questions under oath said on Thursday that they still expect her to appear.

“My subpoena still stands,” said Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC), one of a handful of GOP lawmakers who pushed for the release of the files related to the crimes and associates of Jeffrey Epstein. The lawmaker added that the House Oversight Committee subpoenaed Bondi by name and not by her title.

Democrats echoed her sentiments.

“Pam Bondi helped carry out the most egregious cover up in American history. That’s why I introduced Articles of Impeachment against her,” said Rep. Yassamin Ansari (D-AZ). “She may be fired, but she is not above the law. Bondi must still comply with our subpoena and testify before the Oversight Committee about her criminally botched Epstein Files release.”

We can only hope that lawmakers will continue to scrutinize her time as attorney general. The politicization of DOJ is one of the most egregious abuses of the Trump administration, which is saying something, and anybody involved should be held to account.

But not to worry; if Bondi were to be prosecuted and convicted, we know of a cushy minimum-security prison that allows VIPs to play with puppies.

Maybe she can become friends with Epstein confidante Ghislaine Maxwell, who was transferred there after meeting with Trump’s former attorney Todd Blanche.

Speaking of… Blanche will now head DOJ on an interim basis, which means that Bondi may not keep the title as worst attorney general in history for long.