In a nutshell, President Trump fired Attorney General Pam Bondi for failing to execute the impossible mission he had given her. But it’s not as if she didn’t try.

From the president’s standpoint, lawfare — the leveraging of the government’s law enforcement apparatus against political enemies and for partisan ends — is a strategy that must be used because it was used against him. It is immaterial to him that there may be insufficient evidence to bring cases against his targets — James Comey,........

© National Review