Trump's Revenge Squad: How Kash Patel and Pam Bondi Are Torching the Justice System

The FBI Director and Attorney General's Congressional testimonies confirmed every fear about Trump's cabinet picks—these aren't public servants, they're his and they might be unstoppable.

The spectacle of Kash Patel and Pam Bondi before Congress these past weeks has settled, once and for all, any lingering doubts about the appropriateness of Donald Trump’s cabinet selections. If there were still pollyannas out there clinging to the notion that Trump might surround himself with serious people, that he might choose competence over loyalty, that he might prioritize the nation’s interests over his own pathological need for supplication—well, these two have obliterated those fantasies with the efficiency of a wrecking ball through tissue paper. This is what happens when a vindictive man-child with autocratic impulses gets to staff the Justice Department: you get a failed podcaster and a Florida political hack transforming congressional oversight into a carnival of lies, evasion, and jaw-dropping incompetence.

Patel and Bondi aren’t aberrations in Trump’s cabinet—they’re the purest expression of it. They’re what you get when the only qualification that matters is willingness …