Here's the Real Reason Pam Bondi is Returning to the Trump Regime

Glenn Kirschner breaks it down

On Wednesday, we learned that fired Attorney General Pam Bondi was returning to work for the Trump regime. However, this time no longer as the corrupt administration’s top attorney but as a member of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) that will focus on Artificial Intelligence.

We then saw top Trump officials praise Bondi for taking this new role. For example, Vice President JD Vance—in a statement released by the White House—remarked, “Pam has been an enormously valuable asset to the president’s team, and I’m thrilled for her and for all of us that she’s going to remain involved in confronting some of the most important issues the administration faces.” David Sacks, the co-chair of the council that includes oligarchs like the head of Oracle, Nvidia and META, also praised Bondi writing, “no one is better positioned to support PCAST and to advise the president on legal and regulatory matters” than Bondi.

But why would Bondi—who has no experience in the AI area—be appointed to this board by Trump and get a hero’s welcome?! Well former prosecutor Glenn Kirschner has a theory—and it’s one that resonates with me.

Glenn’s view it’s likely two reasons. First, “This is probably a wonderful opportunity to grift Should someone be interested in doing just that,” Kirschner commented.

And second—and this is the big one—”Pam Bondi knows where all the Epstein bodies are buried and Trump wants to keep her close.” Ding! Ding! Ding! That sounds like a winner. This is especially true given Bondi will testify Friday, May 29 before the House Oversight committee. (Obviously, the timing of the new gig is not a coincidence!)

And as I have written about in the past, Bondi served as Florida’s Attorney General from 2011 to 2019 at the very time Epstein was operating his massive child rape and women sex trafficking ring in that very state. Yet Bondi NEVER investigated Epstein despite there being more one thousand victims. That was clearly a decision by her in an effort to protect Trump and other powerful men.

Bondi taking this new Trump gig is also good for her—at least if she wants to stay out of prison. Bondi clearly wants--and likely needs-- a presidential pardon and by staying in Trump’s good graces that increases the chances.

As Glenn noted, Bondi appeared to have lied in the past to Congress to protect Trump and other powerful men as part of the Epstein cover up. Bondi knows that there is a five-year statute of limitation on this type of crime meaning if Democrats win in 2028, the next Democratic AG will likely investigate her and others in Trump world. Bondi gets that only a pardon can protect her from being prosecuted.

We also discussed Trump DOJ’s latest actions to cover up the Jan. 6 crimes. This comes in the form of Acting AG Todd Blanche deleting a massive number of Jan. 6 related files from the DOJ website about the people charged and convicted of crimes—including those who brutally beat up police officers like Michael Fanone.

Some of the records Blanche deleted--as NPR reported— include:

• Daniel Rodriguez, who pleaded guilty to driving an electroshock device into the neck of former Washington, D.C., Metropolitan Police Department officer Michael Fanone, and who was sentenced to more than 12 years in prison.

• Thomas Webster, who was convicted by a jury of assaulting law enforcement with a metal flagpole, tackling a police officer to the ground and trying to remove the officer’s gas mask. Webster was sentenced to 10 years in prison.

• Peter Schwartz, who was convicted by a jury of assaulting police officers with pepper spray and throwing a metal chair at law enforcement. Schwartz was sentenced to 14 years in prison.

And DOJ is bragging about this erasure of records saying in a statement they are “proud” to strip the “DOJ's website of partisan propaganda.” The goal in deleting these records is not just part of the effort to rewrite Jan. 6. It’s also to make it more difficult for the media and public to uncover the crimes committed by Trump’s followers—especially since he is on the verge of giving them a huge pay day with his $1.8 billion terrorist slush fund.

Glenn explained that these deletions could expose Blanche himself to criminal charges if the purge of records was done “corruptly” (in bad faith.) Again, it appears that Blanche like his predecessor Bondi will need a pardon.

Trump’s Jan. 6 terrorist slush fund was also a topic of conversation and recent reporting on the corruption and incompetence of Trump’s DOJ that was laid out by the NY Times. Overall, the US has not seen this level of DOJ abuse since Richard Nixon—but in the case of Trump it’s actually far more extensive.

Hope you check out our conversation:

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