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“[Jerome Powell] is a terrible Fed chair. I was surprised he was appointed.”
— Donald Trump, last week, setting the stage to fire the Fed Chair he himself appointed
Engulfed in the throes of a scandal that threatens to unravel the very fabric that stitches together the cult that keeps him in power, Donald Trump is stanning Attorney General Pam Bondi, the most perfectly positioned and most desperately needed fall gal he’s ever had. This from a man who has always — ALWAYS — viewed even his closest underlings as expendable and loyalty as a one-way street.
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Remember Chiefs of Staff Reince Priebus or John Kelly? How about campaign strategists turned White House aides Sean Spicer and Steve Bannon? Do former Attorneys General and cover-up engineers Jeff Sessions or Bill Barr ring a bell? Ok, perhaps you recall would-be hanging victim, Mike Pence?
Trump threw all of them under the bus the millisecond it was advantageous for him to do so. There are hundreds more of “the best people” who Trump squeezed every ounce of loyalty from before leaping at the chance to summarily fire, publicly disparage, and heap blame for any number of his own ample personal failings on them. Yet, Pam Bondi is still standing.
Trump has eaten his own not only as practice but as philosophy. For decades, Trump trudged forward without fear of consequence because he knew, even in business, there would always be an underling to leave holding the bag (see Michael Cohen, Allan Weiselberg, and so on). Yet, Pam Bondi still stands.
And today, when he needs it most — as old evidence of his close friendship with deceased sex trafficker and serial rapist, Jeffrey Epstein, comes under new scrutiny and new information comes to light almost daily — it’s never been easier or more convenient for him to point the finger at an underling. After all, it was Bondi, not Trump, who told the world she had a list of Epstein’s clients he now claims doesn’t exist; Bondi, not Trump, who hyped and distributed an Epstein dossier to MAGA influencers that turned out to be a red hat nothingburger.
How incredibly easy and in character would it be to skirt blame by just calling her a liar who made it all up to seize the spotlight? But…he hasn’t and he won’t.
Instead, he is protecting her in ways he has never before shielded a would-be scapegoat, publicly standing by her with social media posts like:
But he isn’t just defending his perfect sacrificial lamb — consider who he’s targeting instead. He is insulting and attacking his own supporters, the very people he needs the most, trashing them as “some stupid Republicans and foolish Republicans.” And to be clear, this is not some inconsequential minority of his base. According to YouGov and The Economist, 75% of Republicans want the release of the Epstein files, and 50% say the government is covering up the situation.
So to avoid doing what he has always done (just saying Pam lied), Trump is taking an unprecedented public beating and calling the majority of his base stupid and foolish.
There is only one explanation for why Trump would suddenly depart so drastically from his decades-long pattern and practice of self-preservation at all costs.
He’s protecting Pam because she’s protecting him, and turning on her would give her reason to turn on him — and she’s got the goods. Whatever she has in her possession is worse for Trump than what he’s going through now. There is simply no other explanation.
The evidence of Trump and Epstein’s bromance was already overwhelming, but his behavior over the past week, has told us all both that he is guilty and that Bondi possesses the evidence to confirm it. There is no longer reasonable doubt.
Now, Republicans must decide: will they do the right thing and hold their leader accountable? Or will they move forward as the party of sex traffic and rape?
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