The Korea Times
Farewell to U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi, who was fired Thursday, joining the pantheon of President Donald Trump’s awful cabinet secretaries who learned the hard way that there’s no pleasing a fundamentally unreasonable person. As terrible as Bondi was, her ultimate failing was that she didn’t go far enough for Trump in trashing the rule of law in America. So while it may be tempting to celebrate her departure, her firing bodes ill for the state of our democracy. Whoever comes next could likely be a bigger threat. The one-time Florida AG was narrowly confirmed as Trump’s second choice to lead the DOJ after it became clear that his first pick, the horrible Matt Gaetz, would not make it through a confirmation process even with a pliant Republican Senate filled with lackeys and the weak-willed. Bondi wasn’t as outlandish as Gaetz; her scandal was that she was never a credible steward of the impartial rule of law and this nation’s potent law enforcement apparatus, something she proved many times over during her short sojourn. In the end, her greatest transgression in Trump’s
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