More Cabinet Firings Could Follow Bondi – The Friday AM Quickie 4/3/26
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THE BIG NEWS
Trump Fires His Attorney General Because She Didn't Lock Up Enough of His Opponents
As expected, Donald Trump fired brown-nosing Attorney General Pam Bondi yesterday, in what could be the first of a series of cabinet reshuffles. True to form, Trump continues to blame subordinates for problems of his own making.
Bondi has been replaced, for now, with another former personal attorney of Trump's, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche. Trump is expected to nominate Lee Zeldin, currently director of the Environmental Protection Agency, as Bondi's permanent replacement. According to the Washington Post, other possible candidates include Utah Republican Sen. Mike Lee; Harmeet Dhillon, who's been busy gutting the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division; and Jeanine Pirro, the "not drunk" former Fox News host-turned-US attorney for Washington, DC, who has tried and repeatedly failed to prosecute Trump's enemies.
It was Trump's unquenchable thirst for vengeance that was Bondi's ultimate downfall, news reports suggest. According to the Wall Street Journal, Trump was "incensed that she had not successfully prosecuted a number of his political enemies." In particular, the New York Times reports, Trump was angry that Bondi hadn't put New York Attorney General Letitia James and former FBI director James Comey in prison as revenge for investigating Trump's crimes. Also, per Politico, "the prosecution of several congressional Democrats who urged the military to disobey illegal orders, charges against his longtime nemesis Sen. Adam Schiff and pardoned members of the Jan. 6 committee — have stalled or failed to get past the starting line" under Bondi.
Bondi may be gone from the Department of Justice, but she could still be called to testify on the botched and incomplete release of the Department's files on the late elite sex trafficker and Trump pal Jeffrey Epstein. Her mishandling of the public release of those files also reportedly frustrated Trump. Presumably he didn't care that survivors' names were mistakenly made public, but was rather mad that some of the released files implicated him in Epstein's abuse network.
It must be said, Bondi's so-called failures to carry out Trump's priorities are a good thing. Attorneys General are supposed to uphold the law and democratic principles, not seek to imprison critics of the president and cover up his crimes. "No one can be loyal enough. No one can punish Trump’s enemies fast enough," Public Citizen co-president Lisa Gilbert, who testified against Bondi’s confirmation, said yesterday, per HuffPost. "Pam Bondi took the DOJ in a lawless, non-independent, shameful direction, and the institution of justice has suffered as a result." We can only hope that Trump's next Attorney General is as incompetent as his last one.
MORE STORIES TO WATCH
War on Iran: Children Recruited to Defend Against US Ground Invasion
- Pete Hegseth Fires Top Army General; Tulsi Gabbard Could Be Next to Go Meanwhile, the Defense Secretary "has taken steps to block or delay promotions for more than a dozen Black and female senior officers across all four branches of the military, some of whom are seen as having been targeted because of their race, gender or perceived affiliation with Biden administration policies or officials." via the Washington Post, the Guardian, and NBC News.
- Trump Sons' Drone Company Pitches Interceptors to Gulf Countries Hit By Iran "'These countries are under enormous pressure to buy from the sons of the president so he will do what they want,' said Richard Painter, a former chief White House ethics lawyer under President George W. Bush. 'This is going to be the first family of a president to make a lot of money off war — a war he didn’t get the consent of Congress for.'" via the Associated Press.
- Pentagon Covers Up US Casualty Figures Some 750 US servicemembers have been killed or injured in the Middle East since Oct. 2023, and almost 12,900 military contractors were injured in 2024 alone. via The Intercept, the New York Times, and NBC News.
- France Joins Russia and China to Block UN Security Council Authorization of Military Force to Open Strait of Hormuz French President Emmanuel Macron is beefing on a personal level with Donald Trump, who's been publicly mocking him and his wife in a faux French accent. via the New York Times, the Guardian, and the AP.
Trump's Führerbunker Is Under Construction
The National Capital Planning Commission, a group stacked with Donald Trump's appointees, yesterday signed off on Trump's plans for a ginormous White House ballroom over the rubble of the demolished East Wing. The bureaucratic step doesn't change a judge's ruling this week that says Congress must approve for the project, but construction is likely to continue regardless. What may be more interesting, though, is what's happening underground.
The New York Times reports that work crews have torn out the subsurface World War II-era Presidential Emergency Operations Center as the White House plans for a much larger underground bunker for Trump and future presidents. Trump can't stop bragging about the secure facility, which he says will have "have biodefense all over" plus bomb shelters, secure telecommunications, and a hospital. How nice for him and Dr. Strangelove.
QUICKEST QUICKIES
- Artemis II Astronauts Fix Busted Space Toilet, Briefly Lose Contact With Ground Control "A third issue that cropped up may feel the most relatable to many people on Earth: While the astronauts were setting up their computers, they requested tech support from Mission Control. The culprit? Microsoft Outlook." via NBC News and Space.com.
- Floundering Mike Johnson Reverses Support for GOP Homeland Security Funding Plan Backed By Trump "This is pretty pathetic," says one Republican member of Congress who was on a call with the Budding Theocrat House Speaker yesterday. via the New York Times, Politico, and the Associated Press.
- Civil Society Groups Protest ICE Arrest of Islamic Society of Milwaukee President Salah Sarsour "A lawful permanent resident, he had lived in the US for 32 years, according to the letter, and his wife and children are all US citizens." via Al Jazeera, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, and the Guardian.
- Cuban Government Pardons More Than 2,010 Prisoners Meanwhile, the "resources and attention" demanded by Donald Trump's war on Iran have convinced him and his aides that now is not the right time to attempt regime change on Cuba. via the AP and Politico.
SOME NUMBER
43 percent
That's the share of heavy social media users -- defined as those who spend five or more hours a day on the apps -- who disagree with the statement that democracy is the best form of government, according to a new Gallup poll. The figure is only 27 percent among those who spend an hour or less on social media. Heavy social media users are also more likely to believe that the government should dictate the news.
"A certain kind of person is opting into spending a lot of time on social media, and they may be people who are more disaffected to start with," Jaime Settle, an associate professor of government at the College of William & Mary, tells the Washington Post.
ON THE SHOW TODAY
4/3: Sam and Emma will be in studio; the guest will be Heather 'Digby' Parton, columnist at Salon and proprietor of the Hullabaloo blog.
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PARTING WORDS
"I was just talking to the president."
-- Golf legend Tiger Woods, speaking to a Martin County, Florida Sheriff’s Deputy after crashing his Land Rover late last month, as shown in newly released body camera footage. Woods is a "very close friend of" Donald Trump and is dating Vanessa Trump, who was formerly married to Don Jr. The golfer failed a field sobriety test but told police he was not drunk, but rather on prescription medication. Trump has said he spoke to Woods after the arrest but the White House is declining comment on whether the two men spoke during the arrest.
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