Pam Bondi is by far the worst, most corrupt, and rat-nastiest attorney general in U.S. history

Move over John Mitchell...

Here’s how Brittanica opens the entry for Richard Nixon’s attorney general, John Mitchell:

John Mitchell (born Sept. 15, 1913, Detroit, Mich., U.S.—died Nov. 9, 1988, Washington, D.C.) was the U.S. attorney general during the Nixon administration who served 19 months in prison (1977–79) for his participation in the Watergate Scandal.

And here are paragraphs four and five [emphases added]:

Appointed attorney general, Mitchell took office in January 1969 and remained there until March 1972, when he resigned to head Nixon’s reelection committee. During his tenure at the Justice Department, Mitchell became controversial for his backing of two of President Nixon’s nominees to the Supreme Court who were rejected as unqualified by the Senate, his approval of wiretaps without court authorization (declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court), his prosecutions of antiwar protesters, and his suit to block publication of the so-called Pentagon Papers (rejected by the Supreme Court).

Mitchell resigned as head of the Committee for the Reelection of the President in July 1972, shortly after the arrest of several men discovered burglarizing the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee in the Watergate apartment complex in Washington, D.C. In 1974 he was indicted on charges that he had conspired to plan the break-in and that he had obstructed justice and perjured himself during the subsequent cover-up of the affair. He was convicted in 1975 and sentenced to 2 1/2 to 8 years in prison; he entered prison in 1977 and was released on parole in 1979.

Despite the existence of those paragraphs and that history, allow me to predict that Pamela Jo Bondi will go down in history as the single most corrupt attorney general in the history of the United States.

Beyond that, she will be remembered as little more than a shrieking, nasty, inhumane, barbarous cur of a barely distinguishable human being, who never had any business being attorney general in the first place, due to her general corruption, cruelty, and complete disregard for the law, for the victims of the cruelest crimes imaginable, and for the constitution. Indeed, the one thing Pamela Jo Bondi does seem to care about, is the petting, coddling, defending, and ass kissing of Donald J. Trump.

Don’t believe me? Just watch her work.

There’s a reason Donald Trump tapped the former Florida attorney general and lobbyist for Qatar to be his second choice A.G. after his prior sullied pick, former congressman (and alleged teen girl sex pest) Matt Gaetz withdrew his own nomination rather than face the results of a congressional inquiry into federal teen sex trafficking allegations (which Gaetz has long denied.) She defended Trump during one of his two impeachments and even showed up to cheer him on during his New York criminal trial. And outside of loosely practicing law in Florida, she has built a virtual career being a professional Trump fanatic on Fox.

But even more important to our gangster president, like his other cabinet picks, Pamela Joe has just enough slime on her to keep her loyal. Corrupt leaders love to surround themselves with fellow corrupt people whose dirt they intimately know, because that ensures that the stooges stay loyal to the end. If one goes down, everybody goes down. And that makes Pam the perfect stooge to run the Trump Revenge and Injustice Department.

As Florida A.G. in 2013, she declined to proceed as other states like New York did, to investigate the fraud that was Trump University, after receiving a $25,000 donation for her re-election campaign. As. U.S. A.G. she signed off on Trump’s beyond corrupt acceptance of a $400 million luxury plane from her former client, the emirs of Qatar. And the deal just happens to also be of great financial benefit to the defense contractor who will retrofit the jet, whose lobbyist Pam happens to be a former principal of. It is Pam who will very likely also sign off on Trump’s $230 million gift of your tax money to himself, as she is expected to settle his $10 billion lawsuit against his own IRS for not stopping journalists from finding out he is a lifetime tax cheat — a conflict that was revealed in a hearing this week.

And despite vowing during her confirmation hearings to end what Republicans call the “weaponization of the Justice Department” (translation: Donald Trump getting caught committing crimes and doing an insurrection) she has quite eagerly done the opposite. She has leapt at the chance to accede to Trump’s demands that the DOJ try to prosecute anyone who has ever upset him, including New Jersey Congresswoman LaMonica McIver, for daring to try to do oversight over one of his privatized concentration camps; New York Attorney General Letitia James for catching him defrauding the state of New York; Jack Smith for catching him stealing classified documents and attempting a literal coup, Federal Reserve member Lisa Cook to punish the Fed for not levering interest rates when he says so; his own former national security adviser John Bolton for writing a book that was mean about him; James Comey for catching him playing footsie with Russia; a half dozen House and Senate Democrats for daring to make a PSA saying members of the military need not obey illegal orders (a case roundly rejected by a grand jury), and even commanding an investigation into Renee Good’s grieving widow, rather than the man who murdered the mother of three in cold blood then called her a f—king bitch (several prosecutors quit over that insanity.) Many of these attempted indictments have been thrown out by federal judges or prompted career DOJ officials to resign in disgust. But the humiliation of being rebuffed in the very courts she’s supposed to be an expert player in hasn’t slowed Pam down. She’s moved on to trying to prosecute journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort for covering a protest at a Minneapolis church in which seven also indicted Americans dared to object to the concept of an ICE pastor.

Pam and Trump’s failed former lawyers in the fraud case that made him a felon: Emil Bove and Todd Blanche (when he’s not having secret meetings with Ghislaine Maxwell) have collectively turned the DOJ into a mafia-style vengeance factory filled with unqualified incompetents. And they seem undeterred about doing blatantly illegal hires to put cronies like Alina Habba in place in blue states (so much for “merit.”) In effect, Bondi has turned the once respected Justice Department into a common, grimy, patronage hut. The one thing this crowd seems really reluctant to do, is release all of the Epstein Files, despite a law Trump was forced to sign that orders them to do so; and revealing and prosecuting the powerful men who abused children as part of Epstein’s sick circle.

Which brings us to Thursday’s House Judiciary Committee hearing, at which Bondi showed up to testify. To put it mildly, it was revealing. As Maryland congressman Jamie Raskin pointed out in his opening remarks, with Pamela Jo in office, Trump can order up prosecutions of his declared enemies “like ordering a pizza, and Pizza Pam always delivers. And what she delivered this week was an astonishing performance of screamy, dramatic yelling, accusatory shrieking, and embarrassingly vituperative caterwalling in obedient defense of Donald Trump; just the way he likes it.

And there was much more. During hearing, Pramila Jayapal exposed Bondi’s cold, soulless disrespect for the survivors of the world’s most notorious monster, Jeffrey Epstein:

This image will live forever in the history of this country and of this awful, awful woman:

During a February 10, 2026 House Judiciary hearing, Attorney General Pam Bondi refuses to acknowledge a group of Epstein survivors as they raise their hands behind her, indicating they have not had the opportunity to meet with her.

Later in the hearing, after a long windup, New York Congressman Jerry Nadler tried to get an answer to a very specific question: how many Epstein co-conspirators has Bondi’s DOJ prosecuted:

Again, consider that this was literally her answer:

Even right wing professional asshole Eric Erickson was duly disgusted.

Later in the hearing, Colorado Rep Joe Neguse exposed the fact that Bondi has hired an actual January 6 insurrectionist to work at DOJ and eliminated the entire division created to hunt for crimes in the crypocurrency world, where Trump is now enriching himself.

California Rep. Ted Lieu caught Bondi in an outright lie and potential perjury:

While Rep. Jasmine Crockett read Bondi for filth:

And Illinois Rep. Chuy Garcia got straight to the point:

Rep. Sydney Kamlager-Dove (D-CA) tried to get Pamela Jo to answer whether Trump is an honest man; and had a hard time getting an answer:

And Thomas Massie, the sole Republican to not use their time to suck up, got into a heated back and forth with Trump’s most corrupt enabler:

That’s pretty much how it went all morning. And much to the disgust of all but MAGA, it was a revelatory day in which we discovered that America has no Justice Department, as long as Pamela Jo and Trump are in charge.

Oh, and the committee chair, Jim Jordan (who has some issues of his own when it comes to questios about possibly covering up the sexual abuse of minors) did the Trump dance on Don Lemon:

Oh, and surprise surprise … Clarence is in the files….

Check it out

On a related note, I was on Stacey Abrams’ excellent podcast, Assembly Required this past week. Wanna hear it? Here it goes:

What to Reid

Robert Jones of PRRI has a new book coming, which dives into the risks that Christian nationalism poses to the nation, and to Christianity itself. Check out Backslide here.

And do check out this piece by Kerry Kennedy, in which she breaks down the threats to democracy inherent in the arrest of journalists like Don Lemon and Georgia Fort.

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