Pam Bondi's constant defense of Donald Trump may be her undoing, according to a political analyst — who believes a single issue will unravel this year.
The US Attorney General has been a hard line supporter of Trump during his second term in office, but Stephanie McCrummen believes this dedication will mean Bondi's time in the White House is coming to an end. Writing in The Atlantic, McCrummen suggested the staggered release of the Epstein files could be Bondi's sword to fall on.
McCrummen wrote, "At this point, there is little mystery about who Pam Bondi has become. She is an attorney general who does not tell Trump no."
"During the first year of her tenure, Bondi has carried out the most stunning transformation of the Justice Department in modern American history, turning an autonomous agency charged with upholding the U.S. Constitution into one where the rule of law is secondary to the wishes of the president."
"It has meant providing a legal justification for the extrajudicial killings of at least 123 people suspected of smuggling drugs, and for the operation to capture the Venezuelan president, an action that opens the door to a world in which the only law is power. And it has meant becoming the face of the Epstein-files scandal, a position that could ultimately be Bondi’s undoing."
Though Trump previously had "loyalists" in the position of Attorney General, he has not had someone like Bondi in position before, according to McCrummen.
"Jeff Sessions recused himself from the Russia investigation, citing ethics concerns; Bill Barr refused to say that the 2020 election had been stolen," she wrote. "Bondi’s willingness to do what Trump wants appears to be boundless, and yet that still might not be enough for him.
"Trump has reportedly been complaining in recent weeks that Bondi has not been moving as fast as he’d like in pursuing cases against his political opponents."
But it could be more than Trump's wrath that Bondi incurs with her actions over the Epstein files. McCrummen said. "His [Trump's] frustration extends to her handling of the Epstein files, a political disaster for him that could mean legal jeopardy for her.
"Bondi has so far failed to comply with a federal law that required the release of all the unclassified Epstein files by December 19 —millions of investigative documents known to contain not only references to Trump but potentially compromising information about some of the most powerful men in the world."