Below is my column on Fox.com on the removal of Attorney General Pam Bondi and the start of one of Washington’s favorite sports lines: the cabinet sweepstakes. The city is in a frenzy over who will replace Bondi in a job that has everything but job security.
Here is the column:
There is an old joke that scientists switched from lab rats to lawyers because you do not get as attached to lawyers. President Trump has shown the same tendency not to become attached to either private or public counsel. Attorney General Pam Bondi is only the latest in a long line of lawyers let go by a president made famous with the tagline “You’re fired.”
There is no evidence of bad blood between President Trump and Bondi. The Attorney General has been attacked over her loyalty to the President and has been by his side in some of the most precarious moments from his impeachment to his criminal defense. As his “apprentices” learned, this is not personal. It’s business.
Jeff Sessions. Rex Tillerson. Bill Barr. Mark Esper. Kristi Noem. Trump’s “cabinets” are known more for shelving than storage.
Indeed, being a cabinet member in a Trump administration is about as secure as being a quarterback on the Cleveland Browns.
Trump has always viewed terminations as a way to spur higher performance levels.
There is a reason why Trump may have wanted to move now in swapping out Attorneys General. There are growing predictions that the Republicans will lose the House and could also lose the Senate.
Democrats are running on pledges of unleashing a new spasm of investigations and impeachments, targeting not just President Trump but anyone who supports him.
Figures like Susan Rice, top policy adviser to both President Barack Obama and Joe Biden, have promised “revenge” against all those who pushed Democrats out of power and warned that “it’s not going to end well for them.”
Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) pledged that, as soon as they regain power, they will start throwing Trump people in jail when they retake Congress.
Democratic strategist James Carville previously threatened that “collaborators” may be treated in the same way as they were after World War II.
Trump has to decide who will be the best hand on the wheel in those coming choppy waters.
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche has the street cred that Trump values. An accomplished litigator and former prosecutor, Blanche is neither flashy nor gregarious. He is a lethal litigator who can gut you like a trout without breaking a sweat. He has been at the president’s side in and out of court. While he will be a lightning rod for Democrats who have attacked him for his role in the release of the Epstein files, his firmness in dealing with a hostile media likely appealed to the President.
Blanche offers a seamless transition for the Department. He literally only has to walk down the hallway to take the reins from Bondi.
Another name reportedly under consideration is EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin, who would likely be the easiest to confirm and the most popular with members of Congress. Zeldin transformed the EPA in short order, including clearing away barriers to increasing energy production. Almost elected governor of New York, Zeldin has cross-over appeal in Washington as someone who cut his teeth in this town.
Other candidates include state attorneys general, as well as wild cards like U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro, a former judge with a tough-as-nails reputation in Washington, D.C. It is a deep bench.
There will be no shortage of applicants for the job. The office of the Attorney General in the Trump Administration has everything that one could want in Washington. Everything, that is, except job security.
Jonathan Turley is a law professor and the best-selling author of “Rage and the Republic: The Unfinished Story of the American Revolution.”
“He is a lethal litigator who can gut you like a trout without breaking a sweat.” HIRE THAT MAN!
Saw you on t.v. this morning. Excellent, as usual. The thing that is so special about you, liberals and conservatives know you are right. You bring extraordinary credibility whenever you share your thoughts on legal matters. You don’t get rattled. Others may lose control, but you simply engage their arguments with well reasoned and keen insights, based on your scholarship, vast knowledge of the history the law and why decisions were made.
You should be our AG. Trump has too much confidence in what you bring to the table to fire you. He might even learn a thing or two about trust. You very well could be the source of reformation we desperately need.
Yeah, Turley should throw his name in the hat. After all he is a ‘well respected constitutional scholar’.
Turley wouldn’t last a month as Trump’s AG. Not with the majority of seasoned and experienced prosecutors already gone and only sycophants and incompetent noobs at his disposal.
and you have tried, so very hard, to sow seeds of doubt to discredit Turley. It backfired so badly that now we can so clearly see what an empty box you are.
Jonathan Turley’s characterization of Pam Bondi’s exit as a mere ‘personnel reset’ is a disingenuous sanitization of a Department in freefall. To treat this as a standard ‘apprentice’ moment ignores the objective wreckage left in her wake: a DOJ hollowed out by mass resignations and a string of humiliating losses in federal court.
While Turley frames the transition to Todd Blanche as a seamless handoff, he conveniently omits the exodus of career prosecutors who fled the Department under Bondi. This wasn’t ‘swamp draining’; it was a brain drain of non-partisan institutional knowledge that left the DOJ functionally crippled. These resignations weren’t protest statements—they were the direct result of a leadership that prioritized political optics over prosecutorial merit.
The proof of this incompetence isn’t just in the empty desks, but in the courtroom record. During Bondi’s tenure, the DOJ suffered a series of high-profile rebukes from federal judges who repeatedly threw out rushed, politically motivated filings for lack of evidence or procedural merit. By ignoring these legal defeats and the collapse of morale, Turley isn’t providing a critique; he’s providing cover. He portrays a ‘tough’ leader being swapped out, when the reality is a Department head being ousted after losing the confidence of both the courts and her own staff.
Bondi was a puppet.
Just pick a random sentence phrase from X/georgie, like “… DOJ suffered a series of high-profile rebukes from federal judges who repeatedly threw out rushed, politically motivated filings for lack of evidence or procedural merit.”
Then Google it.
Here is the opening sentence in Google AI’s reply: “… (DOJ) has faced several high-profile rebukes from federal judges, who have dismissed cases and criticized prosecutors for what they termed “profound investigative missteps,” “rushed” efforts, and lack of evidence.” Several other phrases, terms, and words also lifted and reworked into georgies posted “opinion.”
Throw in georgie’s use of “disingenuous” and “conveniently omitted” learned from this blog, and VOILA!
There is the packaged, shiny, original, X/George wrapped up for you!
Oh, you caught me! I actually had to use a search engine to find the ‘hidden’ information that thousands of federal prosecutors resigned or that federal judges repeatedly rejected Bondi’s attempts to prosecute political rivals. I know, it’s shocking that someone would use documented facts to form an opinion instead of just repeating whatever Jonathan Turley said on Fox News this morning.
oh oh. X/georgie has suffered several “high-profile rebukes” from people who rejected his Artificial Intelligence!
LOL. It is really quite a joy to watch these poor boobs attack Trump 24/7 as he does nothing but succeed.
To be fair, it is true however, that they too are billionaires, were POTUS at one time, married the most beautiful women in the world and destroyed a nation of terror (just blew down 30,000 of their own without hesitation) even as 7 presidents before him allowed them to menace the U.S. and the world for 47 years. Karoline Leavitt, single-handedly, crushes the biased press core, leaving them stunned with her superior intellect and brute courage to expose their unpatriotic motives to destroy this country. Tulsi Gabbard leaves the same anti-American, Russian collaborators speechless as she pursues convictions of Obama, Comey and the other traitors who failed to removed Don.
Nothing they do or have done for 10 years, impeded his mission to make us great again.
So was Biden… what’s your point ?Xlax. You move me…
Anyone who agrees to sit down at the table and play this game should already be familiar with the rules and be ready to be called and fold at any time during the hand. It is what it is and has always been.
I think there is a disconnect between employees of the swamp and its little cousins at state and local levels, the world of academia and unionized teachers, and professional talking heads in the media AND the real world where unless you are a nepo, your job is only as secure as your performance. Trump is a businessman and he treats his hires as he would in the real world, produce, don’t f*ck up, and don’t help the competition. So far, those who failed at those 3 points are gone, and for good reason. This is the real world, baby, and it doesn’t stand on tenure, party affiliation or connections unless it adds to the profit margin. I see this firing of Bondi far overdue but a good indication that Trump knows, from his previous administration, that you need to be at your top of performance to stay the course.
In your real world, I imagine your line of work was concentration camp guard.
College degree from the early 70s and private business creator owner now in its 3rd generation of ownership. What’s your line of work, boot-licking your communist masters? or cheeto-stained paid troll for the prog/left?
When Trump picked Bondi I thought it was an ok nomination and I was somewhat hopeful. However I wasn’t too impressed with her performance starting with the Epstein fiasco, and it surely was a fiasco. That was amateurish and harmful and it helped juice the whole Epstein files thing. Bondi was trying to appease the right wing nuts that have made the files a hill to die on, see Massie and MTG, and it backfired. Bad job.
I also wasn’t happy with Bondi’s appearances before Congress as I thought she was strident and off point many times. When folks like Rubio, Vance, Bessent and a few others counter aggressive partisan hacks they do so with aplomb, intelligence and surgical comebacks that are on point and effective. Bondi would instead not defeat the Democrat talking point with a great rebuttal but would turn to “why did you beat your wife” kind of rejoinders.
Of course Bondi also failed to get even one scalp legally and has been defeated over and over again by Trump’s enemies. Is Letitia James going to trial even though her crimes are more evident than anything Trump had to defend? How about Schiff? How about Swalwell? Meanwhile the Columbia University Jew hating, hamas supporting rabble rouser here on a green card IS STILL HERE and he is dining at the mayor of NYC’s home. Meanwhile MD dad is still here. Meanwhile Ilhan Omar hasn’t been charged. Tim Walz hasn’t been charged.
Nope sorry, Bondi had to go. Now after seeing how protected Joe Kent was it may be time for Tulsi to go as well.
I see someone has been watching YouTube videos…
Bondi didn’t do much for cleaning out the corruption. She did a great job at clarifying the law in the courts through lawfare measures leading to a more aggressive enforcement of federal laws. Yet Obama, Clinton, Comey, Brennan and a slew of others remain free and unscathed. We’re still fighting mail in ballot fraud six years after seeing the most openly corrupt president that stole an election subjecting us to another four years of leadership s/ by Obama and his psychopaths. No, Bondi didn’t fulfill the promise but she did good for Americans while mired in ro her head in garbage.
You nailed it. If he’s not here, he’s on Youtube. He always made refences to videos in his less than … comments. It was pretty obvious.
The only YouTube I watch is either music, comedy or billiards, I don’t need it to know what is happening in the world since I actually, you know…read. Try it, it will be hard at first but just mouth the words.
I don’t get your “YouTube” comment that was followed by what sounded like an agreement with me???
Oh, absolutely. It turns out that shouting “The Dow is at 50,000!” isn’t actually a valid legal motion to get a conviction. Who knew?
It’s almost as if Pam Bondi thought the Department of Justice was a daytime talk show where you win by having the loudest “why did you beat your wife” rejoinder, rather than, you know, evidence. She spent fourteen months promising “scalps” and all she delivered was a masterclass in how to lose in federal court three times in a row.
You have to admire the efficiency: she managed to alienate the “right-wing nuts” with her Epstein fumbles, get laughed out of court by Letitia James, and trigger a mass exodus of actual prosecutors—all while keeping her hair perfectly in place for the cameras. Turley calls it a “routine reset,” but most people call “failing to deport a single ‘rabble-rouser’ while losing every major case” a total collapse.
But hey, at least she was “loyal,” right? It’s just a shame that loyalty doesn’t translate into a successful indictment of Adam Schiff or a working knowledge of how to redact a document without accidentally exposing victims.
Turley floated Jeanine Pirro as a possible replacement, Really?! The same Pirro who succeeded in getting no-billed more times than any other DA, ever.
Trump’s DOJ is a bunch of hacks who barely understand what evidence is or proper court procedure. No replacement will fix that.
Trump Fired Bondi. Members of the House Oversight Committee Still Want Her to Testify.
The calls transcended party lines, with Republican Rep. Nancy Mace joining her Democratic colleagues to insist that the panel’s subpoena still stands.
By: Torrie Herrington ~ April 2, 2026
https://www.notus.org/congress/trump-fired-bondi-members-of-the-house-oversight-committee-still-want-her-to-testify
Re.: x.com/NancyMace
“My subpoena still stands. When the Oversight Committee moved to subpoena Bondi, I did it by name, not by or not as the sitting Attorney General of the U.S.,” Mace, who introduced the resolution to subpoena Bondi, posted on X.
https://x.com/NancyMace/status/2039765013884268739?s=20
Pam Bondi doesn’t want to become the next John Mitchell (Pres. Nixon’s AG)
John N. Mitchell was the 67th U.S. Attorney General (1969–1972) under President Richard Nixon and the only U.S. Attorney General to serve prison time. As a key Nixon ally, Mitchell was implicated in approving the Watergate break-in and directing the subsequent cover-up, leading to his 1975 conviction for conspiracy, obstruction of justice, and perjury.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_N._Mitchell
The Ghost of Epstein is haunting the White house.
I predict you will see Pam Bondi doing her own show soon after this.
The Megyn Kelly Show with Pam Bondi is also a possibility.
Megyn is not actually a big fan of Pam’s.
That figures, the Legal Media Space is highly competitive. It’s logical that the Megyn would not want to invite another competitor.
Gossip monger eh dude?
Yep! and I love it 💋
Daniel, watch how fast they become besties when someone offers them a multimillion dollar network deal…Siamese Twins joined at the black roots!
Pam Bondi has failed because she has not even come close to fulfilling a key campaign promise of President Trump, namely her inability to run a tenacious prosecution operation that would send a clear message to the leftist lawfare crowd. On the other hand in the democratic environment she didn*t find many associates who were actually committed to doing the mission.
“There is a reason why Trump may have wanted to move now in swapping out Attorneys General. There are growing predictions that the Republicans will lose the House and could also lose the Senate.”
Why are we feeding the media?
Nothing like telling a sports team, “There’s a good chance you’re going to lose, but go out there and put on a good show anyway.”
How motivating for Republican candidates!
Have you seen the numbers for the dems?
They are not looking good either.
Now, I have a few significant political disagreements with Donald Trump, although I think he has done a far better job as POTUS than the other 2024 option possibly could have done. In spite of those disagreements, I think that by far the biggest failure of his first administration was his apparent faith that every one of his cabinet and department heads was telling him the truth, and supporting him, when in far too many cases, they were career Deep State tools who were determined to undermine, and, if possible, remove him. He apparently learned that lesson pretty well. Good for him!
1. Bill Barr (recommended by “W”) who resigned on 12/14/20 was illoyal to President Trump.
2. Though 2020 Presidential Election was looming, general public was not aware that HB investigation was mot only slowwalked but FBI was also aware since 11/19 that “Laptop from Hell” was authentic.
3. Former spies drafted a letter specifically to give JB a talking point” for 2nd Presidential debate. On 10/220/20 “Politico” headlined: “Hunter Biden story is Russian disinfo, dozens of former intel officials say” JB lied to the audience when he claimed HBs abandoned laptop were “garbage” and a “Russian plant”.
Democrats are back to acting like it is the 1850’s. DEAD SET ON THE DESTRUCTION OF AMERICA
Democrats are CLEARLY FASCISTS
We need to Jail The Democrats by 1000’s!!!
1) Russian Hoax, Trump Persecution
2) Protecting bidens, other crimes, jail bad judges
3) Jan 6th entrapment
4) Vote Crimes
5) Helping Illegals & Stealing
6) Child endangerment
7) Who call for Violence
8) COVID
Confucius Say:
Woman who fly airplane upside down have crack up
You even misquote that kind of spurious nonsense. The correct version is “have hairy crack up”. At least that is true in the English version, if not in your native tongue…
In Politics, you’re an assets until you are’nt. Better to make a change 1 day early rather 2 days too late. The job changes and sometimes the person needs to change. Sort of like physicians. Once you’ve had the heart cath and the lesion has been determined then you needs the cardiac surgeon. It’s not personal, it’s business. The key is changing people but keeping the friend.
Is there an analogy in there, somewhere?
For you.
“Is there an analogy in there, somewhere?” Well how is this, once you are declared brain dead, stop talking?
Its Dumb and Dumber…So dumb that they couldn’t understand the comment. One claims to be a lawyer, claims supreme court level stuff – really. The other with multiple “collage” degrees. Even claims he’s an MD,. His vocabulary is just 3 words. Not making this up folks.
Come On Man! EVERYONE knows when you accept a JOB from DJT it is Temp Help and any given Day Of The Week is your last! Suzy the Whisperer is the Grim Reaper for these Boy and Girl FRIDAY types! But not to worry as there are ALWAYS a parade of buffoons 10-deep for these jobs!!!
isn’t every job? Well except democrat government jobs by being a terrible college professor, etc?
In contrast you have absolute partisan hacks who rode the entire Biden regime, like Alejandro Mayorkas, who lied to Congress as well as media outlets, but whose job was quite secure because he was doing the bidding of leftwing extremists in leaving the border wide open. There are people like Eric Holder, who described himself as being Obama’s “wingman” who certainly did not put the nation’s interests first, but those of his “boy” Barack. Trump certainly deserves to have cabinet officials around him he trusts and relies on.
” There are people like Eric Holder,”
You forgot his title, Chief Gun Runner Eric Holder. FIFY
You have to give Trump at least partial credit. He is less concerned with; How does this look vs Yeah that was a mistake. When was the last time that a President fired the Attorney General that he appointed? Never. You can argue that’s because every other President hired “good” AGs but I’d argue that Trump cares less about appearances and more about getting the job done. Just another reminder that Trump is not a politician, he’s a leader.
One could argue the best politicians are those who are not so perceived.
“When was the last time that a President fired the Attorney General that he appointed? Never. ”
If you’re not going to count forced resignations as firings, you’re relying on a technicality. Donald Trump demanded that Jeff Sessions resign. Richard Nixon forced John Mitchell, Richard Kleindienst, and Elliot Richardson to resign. Mitchell was later convicted for his role in Watergate and Richardson pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor. Bondi may soon join them in the ranks of those found to have broken the law at the behest in this case of someone who SCOTUS says is immune to prosecution.
Premise for your scf-fi novel?
Are you trying to suggest Pam Bondi was doing a good job and didn’t deserve to be fired? You would have to be a clown or a Democrat that committed a federal crime to say that. People have been calling for Bondi’s firing since ‘the files are on my desk right now’.
Bondi was given more than enough chances and did nothing but appear on Fox TV and try to look cute. Her firing was totally justified. That is how it is in the real world not politics. Being a Democratic politician are the only jobs in the world were doing a terrible job doesn’t get you fired but allows you to fail up.
These were asked to resign and being asked to resign is just a way to give the person a chance to save face while being fired. President Trump on the other hand doesn’t screw around.
Notable Instances of Resignation Requests:
Presidents Who Requested Resignations
President Attorney General Year Reason for Resignation Request
Harry S. Truman Howard McGrath 1952 McGrath was involved in controversies regarding the Justice Depart.
Richard Nixon Elliot Richardson 1973 Richardson refused to fire the Watergate special prosecutor, leading his firing from the Justice Dept.
Jimmy Carter Griffin Bell 1979 Carter requested resignations from his entire Cabinet, including Bell.
How many pages are in the files? How fast do you read words per minute and at what retention. statement files are on desk was imo I’m aware.
I would never suggest Bondi was doing a good job. She tried doing everything the president asked of her, she just couldn’t get grand juries, judges and juries to agree with her.
..The big problem with your analysis is that Bondi did not break the law.. in fact.. she was determined to run an impartial DOJ… which would have been OK if she had 20 years to show results…
Bodi’s Justice Department has been found to have violated hundreds of judicial orders, mostly related to immigration. The clearest example of braking the law would be the Epstein Transparency Act where they missed every deadline and made up their own rules in opposition to what the law says as to what they would disclose. There are still millions of withheld documents in violation of what the law said.
… NO.. It’s not because ‘every other President hired “good” AG’s…’ but because they hired AG’s who Exclusively served the President’s interests, like Garland. Bondi, whom POTUS really liked, got caught trying to do that while trying to run an ‘impartial DOJ’ Can’t walk in 2 DIrections at the same time…..
Let me suggest that what Trump does NOT need as AG is someone perceived as an avenging angel. He does need someone highly competent, experienced, likeable and who is considered fair. One model for this person is J. Turley.
Avenging angel… isn’t that what MAGA demanded of him? Changing the game plan makes no difference. The dems will scream bloody murder no matter what, don’t you think?
No they demand justice for the federal politicians, judges and employees who committed federal crimes, and their is plenty of proof in those who are guilty’s own records. This is not the made up crimes they charge Trump and his associates with, which making up crimes and prosecuting them is both false prosecution and violation of civil rights.
I know liberal troll clowns will never be able to see the difference.
The Neville Chamberlain school of being nice to FASCISTS is a lesson!
Democrats throw republicans in jail by the 1000’s….you don’t win by being nice to people.
Who openly have thrown republicans in jail and state they will again. Who CLEARLY don’t want borders! Who openly scam EVERY Government program.
The Democrat Party is a criminal organization and should be abolished FOR THEIR 2nd Civil War!
“Let me suggest that what Trump does NOT need as AG is someone perceived as an avenging angel. ”
I’m not 100% sure of what he needs, or wants, wrt his AG. There is no way to find out for certain, but nevertheless I think it would be very interesting to know if the differences were that Bondi was only willing to pursue cases that in her judgement were winnable in court, while Trump wanted her to very publicly go after all of the wrongdoers, regardless of the likely legal outcome.
“Democrats will lose the House and could now lose the Senate.” — this should be corrected.
to the ‘Anon’ backing the MSM Fake News and Fake Polls predictions.. would u like to put your name on that instead of hiding behind the ‘Anon’ mask?
Everyone should leave the jurisdiction. Those who can help help the crippled, ill, poor to leave. To where is the question. Who wants them. It’s wicked.
Here’s your kingdom ..Barry…slime
Fare thee well