A bombshell report from The New York Times suggests that despite her title, Attorney General Pam Bondi is hardly running the show at the Department of Justice.

According to the Times, Bondi “sees her role as that of a surrogate, a faithful executor and high-volume messenger, compelled to cede ground to empowered players in the West Wing.”

“The decisions are being made at the White House, and then they’re being pushed down to the Department of Justice, which is very, very atypical,” observed DOJ alum Elizabeth Oyer. “It feels like she is just performing a part. She is like an actor, in a way.”

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    Duh? You don’t think a Fox News host is actually running the DOD either right? Or Naomi DHS?

    This has been transparent from the start.

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      Been transparent that this is how the GOP governs since they had an actor with dementia play “President” in the 80s.

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    Am I surprised a Stasi looking pedophile is in charge? Nope.

    Am I surprised a bottle blonde Barbie bobblehead is a token figurehead? Nope.

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    This is how you get past the problem of Senate confirmation hearings when the person you want to appoint is so horrible that the process could expose things like how they’re less of a Nazi sympathizer and more of an actual Nazi.

    Similarly, Trump’s team has repeatedly denied that Elon Musk was the head of DOGE in order to reduce the amount of congressional oversight that he receives.

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    Yeah, this is why they’ve been spamming social media(including lemmy) with the whole “Kakistocracy” thing recently.

    They really want you to think the idiots are in charge, that way you don’t try to dig deeper as the idiots chop off everything they see and some parts they’re told. Just look at the Librarian of Congress thing. People were making jokes about librarians, meanwhile she was basically in charge of defining DMCA and digital copyright.

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    She’s too busy delivering 747s from her “former” bosses to her “current” boss to be bothered with much else.

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      OBVIOUSLY, she was the conduit for this entire deal. Qatar had already paid her a fortune for her lobbying services, she would have been the first phone call they made to set up the deal.