The Bondi Principal (Hint There Ain’t None)

Bondi Is Trump’s Girl in More Ways Than One

Pam Bondi now controls American justice, and that should terrify anyone who believes the law exists for something other than the highest bidder's convenience. As the nation's 86th Attorney General, the woman who once sold out fraud victims for $25,000 now oversees the very department that investigated her corruption—a bit like appointing the fox not just to guard the henhouse, but to rewrite the definition of what constitutes a chicken.

The defining moment of her career arrived in 2013 with all the subtlety of a Floridian thunderstorm. As Attorney General, Bondi faced a prosecutor's dream: 22 fraud complaints against Trump University, that magnificently brazen con job masquerading as higher education. The evidence was damning, the victims heartbreaking, the law crystalline in its clarity. It was exactly the sort of case that makes careers and restores faith in justice.

Instead, Bondi reached for her phone—not to coordinate with fellow attorneys general building their case, but to dial …