Bless her heart, Pam Bondi is the very definition of anti-gravitas. The harder she tries to sound authoritative and combative, the more she sounds like a cheerleader in a cat fight.
Howard Lutnick is another one. He may be smart as a whip about some things like building businesses, but he comes across as pure bootlicker in general. And completely unbelievable about his supposedly hands-off relationship with next-door-neighbor Epstein.
For some reason President Trump seems to love these cartoonish kinds of people. No doubt it has to do with their over-the-top praise of “the greatest President ever,” but he is smarter than that. Smarter than an average palooka’s ability to understand why he ultimately would include such clowns in his administration, especially alongside genuine standouts like Scott Bessent, Marco Rubio, and J.D. Vance.
Perhaps the mystery is explained by other characters of dubious worth that Trump tolerates in his inner circle, those like chief of staff Susie Wiles or Justice Department traffic cop Todd Blanche. They are smart for sure, far ahead of the Bondis or Lutnicks, but any fool can tell they are less than loyal. They seem to be agents of the Club and quite likely are the ones who champion the lesser lights to Trump.
Though Bondi and Lutnick hold higher positions, they are easy for a clever Svengali to control as is shown by Trump’s often coming late to the table on saboteurs within his own party (thanks to Wiles’ controlling who has access to him); and by the lack of arrests by another cartoon figurehead, Kash Patel (and what arrests have been made are built on sand when there is plenty of rock available).
These are the kinds of problems you have when you’ve made a deal with the devil. Once you make that Faustian compromise, you are at best just the lesser of any given two evils. It is because your house is divided against itself. Lincoln warned what happens in that case. For all the good Trump has done to strengthen the border, remove the illegals, get boys out of girls’ sports and locker rooms and dresses in general, raise America’s stature in the world once again, and all the rest, he cannot shake the Achilles heel of the deal he made.
One need only see what is happening in Virginia to find evidence of what is coming. Trump came into office like a diesel locomotive on full rich but his progress is faltering thanks to a fractured Congress and a party with just enough snakes to get nothing done legislatively, whereas the shape-shifter Spanberger captured the governor’s chair in Virginia by pretending to be middle-of-the-road and now she is the locomotive, pushing radical left policies at blinding speed.
And meanwhile Trump is hobnailed by the cartoon characters and the Svengalis. So for the upcoming Congressional elections which will determine whether we return to the Obiden morass or move forward, MAGA is dispirited and the standard Trump hoists is at best, the lesser of two evils. One can only hope that Americans will recognize the lesser of the evils, and vote in big numbers. But we know where that has gotten us with the likes of McCain and Romney since the Obama era. And with electoral fraud still the norm without voter I.D….
The market success that Bondi put up this week as some sort of defense for the bungling of the Epstein issues will not survive losses in November. It’s probably a good idea to buy gold right about now once again, even at the currently high price.
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