Bondi's Loyalty Didn't Save Her
- John-Michael (Jean-Michel) Valat De Cordova
- 6 days ago
- 7 min read
In the politics of the modern Republican Party, there has been a view that loyalty to
Trump has been of utmost importance, especially since 2020. After his loss in the 2020 election
The Republican Party, now more than ever, has become a cut of personality, and with his reentry
into the White House, there has been the view that you must remain 100% loyal to the President
to hold your position, be that in the Cabinet, Congress, or at the state level with the Republican Party
Governors and State Legislatures. This belief that loyalty will save you is showing its failure
through the recent shakeups at the federal level, with most recently the firing of Pam Bondi, but
also can be seen with Kristi Noem and her subordinate Greg Bovino’s removal. This shows one
contradicting issue within this administration: for Trump, you must follow his orders no
matter the backlash, but if you incur backlash, he will show no loyalty to you.
Pam Bondi has been a loyal ally to Trump; it can even be argued that she was a supporter
even before his arrival in the White House at the end of 2016. In 2013, when she was Attorney
General of Florida, she received donations from Trump amounting to 25,000 dollars. This may
not seem out of the ordinary, but this was in the midst of complaints related to Trump
University. Unsurprisingly, at this time, Bondi decided not to join in on a lawsuit against Trump
University. Presumably, donations to Bondi’s career were more of a boon than this initial legal
victory for him, as in the 2016 primary, she would endorse him before the Florida primary vote.
This donation would end up not solely being a positive for Trump and his political career, as it would be a factor in Trump’s legal challenges to his foundation, which ended in the foundation
being dissolved with 2 million in damages needing to be paid.
Pam Bondi would be attorney general until 2019, when she became a lobbyist at
Ballard Partners, which does lobbying work for Trump, would additionally register as a foreign
agent for Qatar with a Kuwait firm. She would, however, end this work to defend Trump in the
2019 impeachment case. She became a strident defender of Trump during the case and attacked
Democrats are using the claims about Hunter Biden’s work in Ukraine. Additionally, in 2020, she
was a speaker at the 2020 Republican National Convention and would later support the claims
made by Trump of fraud in Pennsylvania, Georgia, and Wisconsin, and, when on Fox News,
claimed that Pennsylvania was won by Trump. She would additionally be nominated by Trump
in the lame duck session to the board of trustees at the Kennedy Center. This all shows that
Trump, even before his period out of office, understood the loyalty Bondi had to him and showed
the benefits of it, that when you prove loyal to Trump and do not fail in his eye,s he will reward
you with patronage.
When Trump returned to the White House, her rise on his coattails would reach its
climax. After Trump’s short-lived effort to make Matt Gaetz the Attorney General, he would turn
to his Floridian sycophant, Pam Bondi. She would go on to have two hearings and in the judiciary
committee get through 12-10 and by the senate 54-46, with the sole Democrat yes vote being
John Fetterman. Once she became Attorney General, she took moves unsurprising for this
administration but still unfortunate, such as shutting down a task force that would enforce Russian
sanctions and cutting back on regulating foreign agents, which she had only stopped being one shortly before becoming Attorney General. Despite cutting back in some areas, she pushed forward in
others, such as establishing a task force meant to seek justice for victims of October Seventh and attempting to prosecute any individuals or organizations that support Hamas and Iranian proxies.
Besides working to support the foreign aims of the administration, she also helped protect the
administration’s members from scrutiny, such as not investigating the leaked “small Houthi
groupchat”. After the death of Iryna Zarutska, she also sought to use the politicized death to
increase her popularity in right-wing circles, so outraged by it that she sought the death penalty for the perpetrator. In late 2025, with the growing politicization of the Justice Department, she defended
it at a committee hearing, which got much support from the Republican members of the
committee.
She was additionally involved in the most well-known and most controversial
policy of the administration; the issue of deportation. The controversial(to say the least)
deportations of immigrants to Nicaragua were stopped by a court order, but when it came time to
enforce this, Pam Bondi ended up sticking with Trump and refusing to enforce it by allowing the
flights to continue. In March, when confronted with the lack of enforcement, she defended it and
would go on to claim that these judges cannot actually enforce these court orders and
In her words, no right to be “meddling in our government”. She would then go on to defend the
actions by her office under Trump with the vigor of a North Korean newscaster declaring that
Their actions saved 258 million lives from fentanyl deaths, and with her characteristic brown
Noting at a cabinet meeting, she claimed that Trump had the most successful “hundred days” of
any president.
In August 2025, she would be a part of another major controversy of the Trump
administration, this time in foreign policy, when she doubled the previous bounty of 25 million to
a 50 million dollar bounty on Nicholas Maduro. As supportive of this as many of his
endeavors, she would go on to accuse Maduro of working with Tren De Aragua, the Sinaloa Cartel, and the Cartel of the Suns. She is also in support of Trump’s political campaign against
Maduro indicted him, claiming that he is a so-called “Narco-Terrorist” along with former
members of FARC.
This loyal foot soldier of Trump would also take up his obsession with the belief that the
The 2020 election was stolen, and attempted to “investigate” the voter rolls of California. This would
lead to a legal battle between Bondi and the government of California, as they refused. This case
would, in the end, be dismissed by the courts. In this project, she would end up attempting to
pressure Governor Tim Walz of Minnesota to release their voter rolls during the ICE operations
in Minneapolis, but much like their attempts in California, this too would come to nothing. The
last effort was in Fulton County, Georgia, a place that, since the 2020 election, Trump was
obsessed with the idea that there was fraud in Fulton County. This, too, would lead to a judge
dismissing her attempts.
Despite all these issues, the effort that would define Pam Bondi’s time as attorney general
would be defined by the issue of the Epstein files. Before Trump achieved the presidency, many
of his supporters constantly discussed the need to release the Epstein files, and members of the
admin like Kash Patel would promise to do so. Then, as they were in office despite Pam Bondi
early on claiming it was on her desk, people such as Kash Patel in the FBI would shut down this
effort. Pam Bondi, being the loyal foot soldier she is, would follow suit and attempt to shut down
the discussion. This effort by the administration would face heavy backlash, not just by the
opponents of the administration, such as Democrats, but by some Republicans like Thomas
Massie as well. As this backlash hardened, Trump began pushing harder for his cabinet to defend
him. Bondi was an ardent defender of him at this time. This additionally led to backlash, beginning to focus their anger on Pam Bondi. When Congress eventually passed legislation to force the release of the files, it led to Bondi stalling on it. She did the bare minimum, and once the
release date came, the majority of it was blacked out to prevent Trump’s involvement from being
found out.
Despite all the efforts to cover up what is in the files and only releasing 2% the sloppy
efforts led to many people figuring it out. Part of this is due to the loss of access to the
software they usually use for blackout, which meant that people were able to uncover some of what was covered. The anger over the Epstein files would end up having its conclusion in a
congressional hearing that Pam Bondi had over the handling of the files. When questioned over this,
she went on the attack, blaming Democrats and attempting to distract by bringing up the DOW is
over 50,000 and that the S&P is almost 7,000. This would be mocked online over her use of the
economy to distract from pedophilia.
It was clear that Bondi was losing favor with Trump, with the possibility of being fired.
Then, on April 2nd, Bondi would be fired by Trump. Reportedly, she begged for her job, and
afterwards, he decided to fire her. Reportedly, this is due to not Epstein(or at least not mainly) but rather her apparent slow speed to go after his political enemies, with specific mention to Eric
Swalwell, a candidate for governor in California.
This career is like many Republicans of the Trump era in that their loyalty brings them to
the centers of power, but also that this means that the slightest failure or appearance of being
weak can make Trump look bad and could lead to their fall from power. Pam Bondi exemplifies
this as she was a loyal attack dog and ardent supporter of the President, but his impatience and
her perceived slowness in his eyes meant she was on the chopping block. It also shows the flaw
in loyalty to Trump. He lacks loyalty to any of his own subordinates, which means there is no
long-term security in this loyalty. It additionally shows the necessary caution that many in
politics should hold as the Trump administration continues. Trump’s popularity continues to decline, and while within the party, this may protect many from challengers or opposition, it will
not isolate you from defeat, as you are reliant on the favor of one man. Many, while having
Trump’s support, still aren’t isolated, such as Senator Cornyn, who has been a loyal vote for Trump
in the Senate due to him being perceived as moderate by the public and wanting to keep the
filibuster, placing him on the chopping block. This is now a major part of modern American
Republicanism, where all are opportunists, and nobody has loyalty to each other.
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