Campaign Update: The Epstein Fiasco Bodes Ill For Bondi

I’ve written and talked at length about why the single most important appointment for Donald Trump to finally, at long last get right in this second administration was the attorney general job. It’s a job on which he screwed the pooch, as we like to say in Texas, twice during his first term, and that failure to get it right cost him and the country quite dearly.

Of all the cabinet level jobs in the federal structure, the job of AG is too important to mess up. As the chief law enforcement officer in the land, the AG possesses an unrivaled ability to drive a president’s priorities via either action or inaction, whichever suits their purposes.

Take the terrible reign of Merrick Garland as a prime example: His studious inaction on child and drug trafficking, violent crimes committed by illegal aliens, and the activities of the Biden crime family led to massive national epidemics in the first two issues and the continued enrichment of a family of grifters for four long years.