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 autistic guy for allegedly planting pipe bombs. Did he do it? I have no idea, nor do I really care. Honestly, I never really cared all that much. Fake or failed pipe bombs outside the DNC and RNC were the least interesting part of January 6th. I’d rather know who and how many people on the FBI or CIA payroll, if any, were out there that day. I’m also sick of Democrats lying about it, so I don’t really care because of that, too.
I’m much more interested in who funds the BLM/ANTIFA goons – their travel, their lawyers, their bail, everything – and getting them ensnared in a massive and wildly important RICO case that exposes the left-wing industrial complex and wipes it out completely. Where is that investigation?
FBI Director Kash Patel promised in February, “Wait until you see what's coming in the next month or two on the funding streams related to this.” OK, it’s time – put up, or shut up. Also, don’t do a suck-up interview with someone who has as much to cover up in failure as you scramble to keep your job.
The FBI leadership has let down the American people, too. They’ve just been shielded behind the incompetence of the Attorney General.
We’ve had “ultimatums” which weren’t followed through on because of egos, the absolute embarrassment and failure of the release of the Epstein files, for which there has been almost no accountability. All three in the leadership posts had promised to “get to the bottom” of that case and, as “social media stars,” lied to their audiences about having information of a damning nature about all aspects of the case and then…nothing. Zip.
One “leader” swore to their followers that an “unimpeachable source” in the Secret Service saw shady things involving Bill Clinton and young girls. Then, once they were in a position to actually do something about that, nothing. So, either the “source,” if they existed (I mean, people addicted to the dopamine of social media success do make things up all the time), was impeachable and lied, or the Secret Service is in the habit of covering up the rape of young girls. The only other option is that the person lied, which is probably the most likely.
The President should not hire from the green room at Fox – he got lucky with Pete Hegseth, who has been very competent and successful, despite the attempts to assassinate his character – and Jeanine Pirro, who has impressed as the US Attorney for the District of Columbia – but everyone else has disappointed.
Being “good” on TV or a podcast does not require competence; it doesn’t even require honesty or good character (both of which could hinder your career), it is performance art. Making unchallenged declarations will endear you to an audience, especially when it’s exactly what they want to hear. Doing those things, however, or proving them in a court of law, is a whole different ball of wax.
Whoever the President appoints to be the next Attorney General, I hope I’ve never seen them on TV. There’s competence at the FBI now that the first-ever co-number two is in that position alone, so I hope they’re matched with a new AG who’ll spend less of their time talking and more of it doing. There is a limited amount of time in which anyone can go after that Left-Wing industrial complex and we’ve wasted too much of it already. Get someone in the job who’ll hit the ground running and not let up, no matter who calls to book them on their show.
Derek Hunter is the host of the Derek Hunter Show on WMAL in Washington, DC, and has a free daily podcast (subscribe!) and author of the book, Outrage, INC., which exposes how liberals use fear and hatred to manipulate the masses, and host of the weekly “Week in F*cking Review” podcast where the news is spoken about the way it deserves to be. Follow him on Twitter at @DerekAHunter.