How to reduce the rule of law to absurdity

It is so obvious that Pam Bondi's job was mainly to cover up the Epstein scandal... Foto: DonkeyHotey / Wikimedia Commons / CC-BY-SA 2.0

(KL) – Last Friday, former US Attorney General Pam “Blondi” Bondi was summoned before an Oversight Committee, where she was to testify under oath as to why there has been no real investigation into the Epstein scandal to date, why the names of the perpetrators in Epstein’s abuse ring were redacted, and why the names of the victims, along with their personal data, were released by her department. It was a subpoena, not just any appointment. What followed was serious.

Bondi appeared and immediately refused to take the oath, with her lawyer stating that she had appeared voluntarily and therefore did not have to testify under oath. Bondi had thus avoided perjury, but things were about to get even worse.

Because Bondi refused to answer even a single question about Donald Trump or other members of the Trump administration, which was basically nothing else than an admission that Trump and other members of the administration are up to their necks in this scandal.

After all, as recently as February 2025, she had publicly stated that the list of perpetrators was on her desk, which she later denied, and she also no longer wanted to remember her statement that “if everything becomes public, the whole system will collapse.”

It is now obvious that the main task of this “Attorney General” was to protect her president, who is so deeply involved in this scandal (and not to protect the victims and the Constitution), and at the same time to pursue Trump’s political opponents as a distraction. None of this has anything to do with the rule of law anymore.

Then she declared that she had nothing to do with the Epstein files at all, but that her acting successor, Todd Blanche, was responsible for everything. It’s a good thing for her that she didn’t testify under oath, because the way Bondi gets caught up in contradictions, that would have actually been perjury.

However, her silence on questions about Trump is almost like an admission of the president’s guilt, as he is even starting wars to divert attention from this Epstein scandal.

Bondi’s appearance before this committee clearly showed that it was Bondi’s job to sweep everything with Trump’s name on it under the rug. But Pam Bondi shouldn’t celebrate too soon. She will only be protected from prosecution and prison for as long as Trump is in office, and that may no longer be the case in the foreseeable future. Then Bondi will be left alone, like Attorney General John Newton Mitchell in 1977, who went to prison for his attempts to cover up the “Watergate scandal” of then-President Richard Nixon.

Pam Bondi could suffer the same fate, because it is so obvious that this attorney general has bent the justice system to protect her criminal president. All of this will only work as long as Trump can stay in office, and the whole world can see that his position is getting weaker and weaker from week to week, from scandal to scandal. Without the presidential protection, Bondi would likely become acquainted with a correctional facility relatively quickly. From the inside.

It is difficult to say how long it will take for the US to become a functioning democracy again after Trump, Bondi, Vance, Hegseth, and company. But it could take a few decades for the US to regain its pre-Trump status. However, even more astonishing than the criminal activities of this administration is the fact that there are still about a third of Americans who worship this already convicted criminal almost religiously. Only the MAGA disciples themselves know how to so consistently ignore the obvious and the proven.