Trump fires Pam Bondi as attorney general (cnn.com)

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[−] Noaidi 43d ago
I guess the Dow is not at 50,000 anymore?
[−] barney54 43d ago
I don't know why you are getting downvoted for this comment. Bondi's promoting the DOW during a hearing was bizarre.
[−] jsbisviewtiful 43d ago
It was also indefensible. A few years back she campaigned on prosecuting pedophiles and, well, as AG she refused to do that. She went as far as protecting them.
[−] hyperhello 43d ago
Republicans simply don’t use words the same way others do. If you say you like flowers in the garden you mean they should be there. If they say they like flowers in the garden, they mean they would like to be paid to control whether they are there.
[−] ffsm8 43d ago
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[−] elzbardico 43d ago
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[−] hyperhello 43d ago
We’re not that deep. One is bad enough. Biden was not senile or a pedophile. That was an obvious attempt to rub smear off of Trump. We do comprehend the existence of propaganda, it’s just that we can’t do anything about it anymore than you can.
[−] elzbardico 41d ago
The insistence that Biden was not senile amounts to gaslighting.
[−] fhdkweig 43d ago

> two senile pedophiles as president in sequnce

two? Who was the one other than Trump? (Which we don't even know that one for sure. We just know he protects them from prosecution)

[−] Tadpole9181 42d ago
Trump openly stated one of the perks of running an underage beauty pageant was being able to walk in on them in the dressing room.

He has himself admitted to being a pedophile...

[−] fhdkweig 42d ago
I can't believe you are making me defend this guy.

It is creepy as shit and I wouldn't allow him near my kids, but there is a very specific legal definition of pedophile and looking isn't the same as touching. It dilutes the term when you use it the wrong way.

[−] Tadpole9181 42d ago
No clue what you're on about:

> Pedophilia is defined as a sexual interest in prepubescent children.

When they touch them they're not a pedophile, they're a pedophile molester or a pedophile rapist. It has adds an additional word.

He likes looking at children in states of undress. He's a pedophile.

And, if dozens of people are to be believed across multiple lawsuits and 30,000 files at the FBI he's going to literal war to hide, he's a pedophile rapist too.

[−] krapp 42d ago

>It is creepy as shit and I wouldn't allow him near my kids, but there is a very specific legal definition of pedophile and looking isn't the same as touching. It dilutes the term when you use it the wrong way.

Then why wouldn't you allow him near your kids? If he isn't legally speaking a pedophile, what would you be worried about?

If it were the case that "looking isn't the same as touching", child porn wouldn't be illegal. Trump is a pedophile because he's attracted to underage girls, he isn't not a pedophile if he looks but doesn't touch.

And there is a mountain of (granted circumstantial) evidence from the Epstein files that have been released to suggest he's probably done more than just look.

[−] thrance 43d ago
Republicans have been following their overtly pro-pedophilia agenda for a while now. Bondi didn't hear from any victim, she failed to protect them and censor their informations in the files, while putting extra care in hiding the pedophile oligarchs that abused them.
[−] helterskelter 43d ago
Let's hope she doesn't get a pardon before he leaves office.
[−] fhdkweig 43d ago
If she broke any state laws anywhere, that won't help her. Presidential pardons don't affect state crimes, and state pardons don't affect federal crimes. It is the closest thing to a check and balance on the power.
[−] threatofrain 43d ago
It's not like state laws couldn't pertain to Pam Bondi, but the dominant framing around her is going to be federal officer exercising her powers, rightly or wrongly, over a federal office and while under the direction of the president.
[−] DANmode 43d ago

> Presidential pardons don't affect state crimes

What good has this done in any of the hundreds of scumbag drug and human trafficker cases that have been let free via Presidential pardons?!

Did a State come step in afterwards, in any, ever?

[−] John23832 43d ago
While not directly connected to Jan 5, a surprising amount of the rioters ended up with state crimes.

It’s almost as if they were criminals all along.

[−] DANmode 42d ago
What’s this got to do with what I said,

or Pam Bondi?

[−] happytoexplain 43d ago
Trump's abuse of the presidential pardon is so hideous, I wouldn't be surprised if this power granted by the original US Constitution is amended after he leaves, in response to his unprecedented lack of respect for it. However, I also wouldn't be surprised if nobody in power ever possesses the strength of character or simple morality to do so.
[−] burnt-resistor 43d ago
Giuliani selling them was the chef's kiss of ultimate, naked transactional prerogative exploitation of a traditional mechanism for exceptional humanitarian redress.
[−] salawat 43d ago
I don't think we should change it. I think we as a nation need to understand the person we put in that office has that power, and choose accordingly. It's there for a reason. Sometimes, it's perfectly acceptable for the President to say "fuck this shit" for the good of the Nation. With that power though, comes the responsibility to wield it with respect. This country put the man abusing it in power. No one had second bloody thoughts. No one listened. No one looked ahead. Changing the system won't fix that. Only changing ourselves will. Now you have an undeniable example of the destructive potential of a truly, unrepentantly, criminally inclined President. Consider yourselves lucky if we actually have a peaceful transition of power out of this Administration. Then don't fuck up again. The stakes of statecraft are high. It's about damn time we started acting like it.
[−] nondrool 42d ago
How so? Serious question too, as last I heard of any pardons it was Biden giving his son, and others, blanket pardons going back to 2014. Didn't even think that was possible to just willy nilly give pardons on anything and everything for a whole decade.
[−] ricksunny 43d ago
I would imagine that’s SOP at this point.
[−] burnt-resistor 43d ago
Nawh, they don't think that far ahead. Instead, she got a consolation-prize invented demotion job to keep her loyal to Mafia Don.
[−] nabbed 43d ago
I guess I wasn't paying enough attention, for what would she get charged? I know about the illegal appointments of US attorneys, the vindictive attempted prosecutions against Trump's perceived enemies, and some problems with the Epstein file releases, but I thought all those were under the category of "incompetency". Did she lie to congress or something like that?
[−] metalman 43d ago
I wonder what she refused to do?
[−] Simulacra 43d ago
I support this. We should prosecute these people and Bondi's excuse that the economy would collapse was so ridiculous as to be insulting. If crimes were committed the perpetrators must be prosecuted no matter who they are.
[−] josefritzishere 43d ago
If there are still history books in the future... what will they think of all this?
[−] cosmicgadget 43d ago
The timing coincides with her office getting embarrassed in front of the Supreme Court, with Trump in artendance.

P2025 had a plan but it was always going to struggle against the president's personality issues.

[−] hackerbeat 43d ago
"Pam Bondi? Hardly knew her, never met her. Terrible person."
[−] jamesgill 43d ago
The bus is always idling at the curb; Trump cronies never seem to realize that eventually, everyone gets thrown under it.
[−] shevy-java 43d ago
This means the Epstein connection must be much deeper than we already knew. We kind of need a global movement here that investigates all of those party-goers. Invading another country also serves as an ideal distraction.
[−] moshegramovsky 43d ago
I heard it's because she wouldn't settle his 10 billion lawsuit grift.
[−] coumbaya 43d ago
I hate this administration as much as the next (european) guy, but what has this got to do with hackernews ?
[−] jeremie_strand 42d ago
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