The Times‘ Tyler Pager had previously reported that “President Trump has discussed firing Attorney General Pam Bondi in recent days as he grows frustrated with her leadership at the Justice Department and her handling of the Epstein files” on Wednesday. “Among his top complaints is Ms. Bondi’s handling of the Epstein files, which has become a political liability for Mr. Trump among his supporters. He has also complained about her shortcomings as a communicator and vented about what he sees as the department’s lack of aggressiveness in going after his foes, according to people who have spoken to him recently.”

Well, about the only catharsis we get is watching the most awful people stab each other in the back.

Bondi should be in jail. But Trump’s complaints are incredible here. They were:

• the Epstein files? So apparently Bondi released files where his name appears over a million times instead of the original probably three million+, but not the desired zero.
• her communication? She was already criminally non-responsive in congressional testimony, which is to say, utterly and completely sycophantic and combative - how much more can he even ask.
• not going after his foes? No attorneys save freaking Habba and Halligan would even sign onto ultimately frivolous, grand-jury-rejected indictments.

So the lesson to Zeldin (and Rubio and anyone else still trying to ride the power train) is: sycophancy isn’t enough. It’s not enough to swear on your life that the emperor has no clothes and maintain the lie even in the face of basic grade-school knowledge.

No, Zeldin will be tasked to gouge out the eyes of anyone who might be able to see it.