It is Saturday, April 4th. I'm Ali Valsh. You've probably heard by now, but the Trump

mega loyalist and personal lawyer Pam Bondi is out as Attorney General. Some people are celebrating,

pointing to her chaotic tenure that turned the Justice Department into Trump's personal vendetta machine.

But one shouldn't get too comfortable.

Donald Trump's reported shortlist to replace Bondi doesn't suggest that either reform or order is coming to the Justice Department.

In fact, quite the opposite.

You see, Pam Bondi was all about fealty,

but it seems that fealty to Donald Trump itself is no longer enough in this administration.

What Trump wants in an attorney general is a fixer. Blind fealty is just the starting point.

The ceiling is how far you're willing to go. Bondi's downfall wasn't because she broke with Trump or grew a spine or struggled with a sense of

justice in an administration that always seems to be skirting the law.

It's not even that she pushed back, even a little.

It seems Pam Bondi is gone because she didn't go far enough in protecting Donald Trump.

She didn't run enough

interference. She hadn't apparently gone hard enough against his enemies. As the old saying goes,

she did a poor job of burying the bodies. Now, one might think this is about the Epstein files,

which were central to her job since the day she was appointed. But a growing number of sources

suggested that while she blundered her way

through that central scandal, which may still ultimately be the undoing of this administration,

her failure in Trump's eyes was actually more basic. Bondi simply couldn't deliver on

persecuting and prosecuting Donald Trump's perceived enemies. On one hand, Bondi had fueled expectations that she

couldn't meet, publicly claiming on Fox News last February that an Epstein client list was sitting

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