Ex-Trump official singles out telling remark from Pam Bondi: 'Creepier than you think'
Attorney General Pam Bondi made headlines this week after her explosive testimony before the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday, but one remark stood out to former Trump official Miles Taylor, who called it “creepier than you think” and emblematic of what he described as President Donald Trump’s “new America.”
The remark in question was uttered by Bondi during a heated exchange with Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), where she described Trump, unprompted, as “the greatest president in American history,” a remark that sparked the room to erupt in laughter.
While no shortage exists of Trump officials lavishing praise on the president, it was the “reflexive” manner in which Bondi made the claim that stood out to Taylor, who previously served as a Homeland Security official under the first Trump administration.
“It wasn’t part of a pre-planned speech. She was a pull-string doll on a loop, programmed to say what she needed to say to survive,” Taylor wrote on his Substack “Defiance News” in an analysis published Friday.
“That’s because Bondi knows something that many of us don’t. To stay afloat and thrive in this new America, you must love the leader and love him loudly, just in case he’s watching. Attorney General Pam Bondi showed us all the new pledge of allegiance.”
Trump has offered himself no shortage of praise as well, having branded himself as a monarch, and declaring himself to be a “better” president than Abraham Lincoln and George Washington. In Trump’s “new America,” however, Taylor noted that it was a matter of survival that the president’s top officials trip over themselves in seeing who can praise their boss the most, a reality he said was demonstrated clearly with Bondi’s reflexive praise.
“As Bondi knows, even insufficient enthusiasm carries real consequences – from loss of access and influence to potential dismissal and even persecution,” Taylor wrote.
“That’s why Trump’s cabinet meetings have turned into bizarre, self-aggrandizing spectacles, with each senior official trying to outdo the next in their glorification of the president’s greatness, while he nods off comfortably, knowing that he’s not only captured the attention of his minions but also their souls.”