Pam Bondi's Portrait Ends Up In The Trash Bin At DOJ

A fitting end to a sordid career.

Source: MSNow

Within hours of the news that President Donald Trump had fired Pam Bondi as attorney general, images began circulating of her framed portrait, unceremoniously removed from its place of honor near the president and vice president on the walls of Justice Department offices.

One photo obtained by MS NOW showed Bondi’s portrait in a trash bin.

Current and former DOJ officials said it’s a reflection of how deeply unpopular Bondi was with career officials and agents, thousands of whom left the department rather than follow her orders. Dozens more were forced out.

One of Bondi's first acts as Attorney General was to remove the acting national security head from his post hours after Attorney General Pam Bondi saw a portrait of former President Joe Biden continuing to hang in the division’s front office, according to people familiar with the situation.

She will not be missed.

BREAKING: Pam Bondi’s portrait has been thrown into the garbage bins at the Department of Justice. pic.twitter.com/hGGHL4g3rQ

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Heritage Flack: Europe Using Iran War To Push Climate Agenda

Heaven forbid the EU energy commissioner is making recommendations for Europeans to try to conserve energy following the crisis created by Trump and Israel attacking Iran.

Top Brussels Official Urges Europeans To Work From Home, Drive Less As Energy Crisis Deepens:

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Watters Lashes Out At NATO: 'We Saved Them Twice From World Wars'

Note to Jesse Watters: NATO was founded in 1949. World War II ended in 1945. The Marshall Plan served US interests as well as the Europeans, and helped prevent Soviet expansion. And NATO is supposed to be for defensive purposes, not to help Trump and Bibi with their war of aggression against Iran.

But hey, why should anyone on Fox let a few facts get in the way of one of their rants?

Here's Watters on this Wednesday's The Five doing Putin's bidding by justifying Trump's constant attacks on NATO.

WATTERS: He has a lot of options. I have no clue what he's going to do.

NATO. Let's just say I'm very disappointed. Need we go through how much they owe us? We saved them twice from World Wars. We bailed them out with the Marshall Plan.

We even lowered our tariffs to zero so they could recover for decades. And then we helped them out with Ukraine. And all we want is a base. All we want is airspace for a little bit to knock out the world's number one sponsor of terror.

They can't give us that. These missiles are in range of their capitals, not ours. They get their oil from that strait. We don't. The least they could do is say okay and deal with the domestic blowback.

But to say no, well, like their economy is kind of murdered because they can't even sustain four weeks from an oil supply shock. Like come on, you're not going to send one vessel to the strait? You're going to wait till the hostilities are over?

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The record quarterly fundraise was largely fueled four mega-deals into OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, and Waymo. But it also indicates a generally hot market.

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Trump Threatens To Pull Out Of NATO

Frustrated that our NATO allies refused to help his sneak attack on Iran, Trump told Reuters he is absolutely considering withdrawing the US from the NATO alliance.

"I'll be discussing my disgust with NATO," he said of the speech. ​Asked if he was thinking about pulling out of NATO, he said: "Oh, absolutely without question. Wouldn't you do that if you were me?"

If Trump actually tried to withdraw from NATO, he would face serious legal challenges because, under the Constitution, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization was ratified by the Senate and requires Senate approval to withdraw. In 2023, Congress passed a law that a president cannot withdraw from NATO unless two-thirds of the Senate approves.

We know Trump hates the US Constitution and all its restrictions on executive power, so it will not surprise anyone if he ignores the law to indulge his petulance.

The NATO Alliance was formed in 1949 to thwart any aggression from Russia. It has been a staple of security for all the member nations since then.

NATO was not formed as an attack mechanism so that a member nation could unceremoniously and aggressively attack another country, and then demand aid and assistance from the members.

It has been successful up until today.

Trump is like a spoiled child who pitches a fit when his mommy refuses to give him candy at bedtime. It is a worldwide embarrassment.

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