To Comfort The Afflicted
And Afflict The Comfortable

To Comfort The Afflicted And Afflict The Comfortable

Saturday, March 29, 2025

Observercast

How Trump Corrupted Pam Bondi

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Newspaper profiles of Pamela Bondi – subbed in as President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for U.S. attorney general following the scandalous implosion of Matt Gaetz – often describe her with a phrase like “longtime loyalist.” The former Florida attorney general’s unwavering fealty dates back to September 2013, when a political committee supporting her re-election campaign received a $25,000 check from the Trump Foundation. And the story behind that check foreshadows four more years of exceptionally corrupt […]

Joe Conason
Joe Conason
Joe Conason is an American journalist, author and liberal political commentator. He writes a column for Salon.com and has written a number of books, including Big Lies, which addresses what he says are myths spread about liberals by conservatives.