'A Case Study in How Trump Treats His Friends'

(TPM) "Learning from her predecessors, ex-Attorney General Pam Bondi was the ultimate yes man."

"Perhaps unflagging sycophancy could protect her from the fate of Jeff Sessions, President Trump’s first Attorney General back in 2017, who provoked his rage by recusing himself from investigations into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. Trump forced him out, then put a coda on his political career by endorsing Tommy Tuberville in the 2020 Alabama Senate primary."

"Maybe full-throated commitment to Trump’s various conspiracy theories could convince him that she wasn’t another Bill Barr, Trump’s second Attorney General who turned on the President (sort of) after the Jan. 6 insurrection (despite calling Trump 'unfit,' Barr still endorsed him over Joe Biden)."

"Bondi had no such qualms. She was happy to go after Trump’s political enemies, even with laughably weak cases. She performed bombastically before congressional committees. Even on the Epstein files, often cited as her greatest blunder, she was following Trump’s (confusing) lead; she professed eagerness to release the files in early spring, at the same time Trump was promising that '100% of all of these documents are being delivered.' She attempted to backtrack with him from May onwards, around the time that Trump was reportedly informed that his name was in the files."

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