Bondi Confirms The Obvious: She’s No Firewall Against Trump
A great deal of things occurred. Here are a few of the important things. This is TPM's Morning Memo. Registerfor the e-mail variationA Dark And Foreboding HearingThe verification hearing of Pam Bondi for chief law officer was more disconcerting and foreboding than I had actually anticipated. Beforehand, I believed she would install enough of a defense of Justice Department self-reliance and the guideline of law to offer a fig leaf of cover for her real goals and those of Donald Trump, making it harder for less advanced observers to translucent the charade. That would have been troublesome in its own right, however the option ended up being even worse.Rather, Bondi was brazen in providing nods to conservative conspiracies, Fox News talking points, and Trump ego-stroking. Whatever she did to...