As attorney general, Pam Bondi lied for President Donald Trump. She hurled insults at Democrats for him. She tried to shield him from the Jeffrey Epstein files. She groveled and doused him with praise in Cabinet meetings.

But in the end, doing everything the president wanted, selling her soul and whatever shards of dignity she had left, just wasn’t enough. Trump fired Bondi on April 2, making her the second female Cabinet member Trump has dispatched as his presidency spirals. The first was Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, whom Trump canned and then named “a special envoy for the Shield of the Americas,” which I’m still not convinced is a real thing.

I assume Bondi will now become assistant to the regional special envoy for the Shield of the Americas. Or maybe she and Noem can start a podcast. Whatever.

Pam Bondi just couldn't be as terrible as Trump needed her to be

The thing that matters here is that Bondi has no one to blame but herself. She forgot the mantra all Trump loyalists must follow: Always lie........

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