Bench bandit: Did Jeanine Pirro orchestrate Pam Bondi’s ouster in a ruthless bid for total control?

ICE Barbie has been iced out, Pam Bondi just got shown the door, and the MAGA purge is in full swing. But in a weird reversal of rats abandoning the sinking ship, even more weirdos are lining up to take the newly-open positions in the Tr*mp administration, starting with Jeanine Pirro.

A few weeks ago, 74-year-old Pirro gave an award-winning performance as a judge royally PO’ed over a quashed investigation into Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s totally fabricated charges of wrongdoing.

Powell, a Tr*mp enemy, has been holding his own against the despot’s desire to lower interest rates for certain billionaires, and it’s pissing off Tr*mp. More importantly, it’s pissing off Pirro, who might just be waiting in the wings to take over as AG in light of Pam Bondi’s ousting.

According to CNN anchor Paula Reid, Pirro’s show of disgust at Powell’s exoneration was an “audition for the top job in the Justice Department.”

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Back in February, Bondi was lipsyncing for her life during congressional hearings concerning the DOJ’s disastrous handling of the Epstein files rollout. She managed to say a whole lot of nothing when pressed by democrats about just why the DOJ took their sweet time in releasing the files and redacting information to protect powerful people, rather than victims.

But Pirro’s fiery speech over Powell might have been a way to distinguish herself from the milquetoast Bondi, according to more than a few commentators.

“People who know Pirro say she wants the job of attorney general,” writes Ben Terris in a New York Magazine Pirro profile published this morning. According to one source, “she’d been trying to put the knife in Bondi, saying she’s not a prosecutor and doesn’t have control of the building.”

Though Tr*mp staffer and lawyer Todd Blanche is the acting AG for the time being, it’s clear that Pirro’s Fox News credentials could prove an intriguing counterpoint to Bondi’s know-nothing tactics.

She’s also cut from the same cloth as Tr*mp, who called her “sexy as hell” as a source for a NY Mag article from 1999. The next year, Pirro’s husband Al Pirro Jr. was caught in a tax scandal that undercut the power couple’s empire.

Maybe that’s why Pirro has such an axe to grind with Jerome Powell over his refusal to capitulate to lowered interest rates?

Or maybe she’s just sucking up to Daddy Tr*mp?

Writer Lisa DePaulo, who profiled Pirro for NY Mag all those years ago, sees Pirro’s recent shift as entirely Tr*mp oriented. In 2015, when DePaulo collaborated with Pirro over coverage of the reignited Robert Durst case, DePaulo can see signs of Pirro “evolving into the Trumper she is now.” That evolution led to a contentious break between the two. Now, DePaulo wonders: Did Pirro “sell out for Trump, or did the inner Jeanine emerge?”

We know that proximity to Tr*mp has the curious effect of transforming formerly sane people into power-hungry lunatics, so the case seems pretty cut and dried. But if Pirro thinks Tr*mp is going to repay her loyalty, she’s in for a rude awakening. On the shortlist for permanent Bondi replacements are former Republican rep Lee Zeldin and Utah senator Mike Lee—not Jeanine Pirro.

That could, of course, end up being an even luckier break for Pirro. With MAGA on its way out and most ex-Tr*mp employees failing to find future employment (for obvious reasons!) Pirro could have a clear path back to her old job at Fox News…unless she manages to embarrass herself even more in the coming months.

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