Attorney General Pam Bondi has sparked fury from within the MAGA sphere for suggesting that the Justice Department, under her direction, may criminally prosecute business owners who refuse to print material in honor of slain right-wing influencer Charlie Kirk.
On Sunday, a video went viral on social media that appears to depict an Office Depot employee refusing to print a poster for a vigil for Kirk, who was killed last week while speaking at Utah Valley University. Bondi, speaking with Fox News Sunday night, issued a warning to business owners engaged in similar behavior.
“Businesses cannot discriminate!” Bondi said. “If you want to go in and print posters with Charlie’s pictures on them for a vigil, you have to let them do that; we can prosecute you for that! I have Harmeet Dhillon right now in our Civil Rights unit looking at that.”
Right-wing political commentator Matt Walsh, a staple in the right-wing ecosystem, fired off on Bondi for her comments, and demanded the Trump administration “get rid of her, today.”
“Conservatives have fought for decades for the right to refuse service to anyone; we won that fight,” Walsh wrote on X to his nearly four million followers.
“Now Pam Bondi wants to roll it all back for no reason. The employee who didn’t print the flyer was already fired by his employer. This stuff is being handled successfully through free speech and free markets. This is totally gratuitous and pointless. We need the AG focused on bringing down the left-wing terror cells, not prosecuting Office Depot for God’s sake.”
Walsh has been a strong proponent of the idea that business owners should be free to refuse service for any reason, including sexual orientation, having condemned critics of the Masterpiece Cakeshop’s 2012 decision to deny service to a same-sex couple, a decision that landed the cake shop a lawsuit that went all the way up to the Supreme Court.
“Until I see proof otherwise I will believe Pam Bondi is lying to us and will try to enforce laws making it illegal to use hate speech, ie ‘offensive’ speech,” wrote Rob Noerr, a self-described “populist conservative” on X to his more than 7,400 followers.
“She needs to resign or be fired, and if it doesn’t happen everything this incompetent moron does should be directly blamed on Trump.”
Get rid of her. Today. This is insane. Conservatives have fought for decades for the right to refuse service to anyone. We won that fight. Now Pam Bondi wants to roll it all back for no reason. The employee who didn’t print the flyer was already fired by his employer. This stuff… https://t.co/Ry7PEUz1ca
— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) September 16, 2025