Pam Bondi unmasked a dark truth about the Trump admin with theatrics: analysis
A new analysis claims Attorney General Pam Bondi just pulled back the curtain on the Trump administration's whole sordid operation.
During her congressional hearing this week, Epstein survivors sat behind Bondi "unacknowledged and irrelevant to her purposes" as she performed for the cameras. That's according to Dahlia Lithwick in a scathing analysis in Slate, in which Lithwick said her testimony wasn't about justice or accountability.
"... Blond woman who knows she must seek and maintain protection from this administration’s simulacrum of justice crows about the Dow Jones for the cameras, because she understands that if she doesn’t, she will be left behind, asking to be respected, like the masses of women behind her," wrote Lithwick.
Lithwick tore into Bondi and stressed that what she's doing isn't "law" by any stretch of the imagination.
"What Bondi, and Donald Trump, and [Commerce Secretary Howard] Lutnick, and Todd Blanche are doing under the banner of law and law enforcement and pardons and immunity and impunity is an operatic performance of a single truth: The 'law' will now protect those who are within the network of favors and privilege and secrets and side-eyes and snickers and abuse of young girls, and the 'law' will also abandon those who are not," she wrote.
Instead, Lithwick likened Bondi's theatrics during her combative House hearing to a criminal "protection racket" that "preys on everyone who refuses to buckle."
Bondi's real job, Lithwick argues, isn't enforcing the law. It's enforcing a two-tiered system where the connected skate free while everyone else gets hammered.
"We should probably stop calling this law and call it simply 'power.' Just as we could stop calling Bondi the AG and call her Trump’s constitutional Roomba. We should almost certainly stop calling the Epstein survivors anything other than the legal heroes and dreamers they