Pam Bondi was fired last week because she deserved to be. I know she’s popular among some, but she was not popular with President Donald Trump, and that’s all that really mattered. The leadership in the Justice Department, including the FBI, has been horrible and feckless. Now that she’s gone, someone has to say that former Attorney General Bondi deserved to lose her job.

If you watched the Sunday shows, all the stories were about how Bondi “failed to go after Trump’s enemies,” and that’s why she was fired. I don’t know if she failed to go after them or failed in going after them – people like James Comey are corrupt piles of garbage and if they broke the law, I want the book, the Barnes and Noble and the library thrown at them.

But Bondi couldn’t even get charges filed in a way that didn’t get them tossed on procedural grounds, which is some sort of accomplishment, maybe even a record.

Competence matters, or should.

What were the “victories” of the Justice Department under Pam Bondi and the current/former leadership at the FBI? There aren’t any; it’s been a complete waste of time.

They touted arrests, but that is a meaningless statistic. If you don’t get convictions or guilty pleas, arrests are nothing. They arrested an........

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