Pam Bondi's loyalty to Trump wasn't enough to keep her job. Here's why
CBC
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For more than a year, Pam Bondi violated the norms of independence expected from a U.S. attorney general and forced Department of Justice attorneys to do the bidding of President Donald Trump.
Yet her loyalty and willingness to turn the department into a weapon of retribution for Trump weren't enough to satisfy the president.
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- Pam Bondi’s extreme political loyalty to Trump wasn’t enough to save her job The Conversation —
- Trump news at a glance: president gives his loyal enforcer the boot The Guardian —
- Attorney General Pam Bondi was always on the ropes but thought she was finally on safer footing. She wasn’t. Wall Street Journal —
- What's next for the Justice Department after Bondi's firing PBS —