What I wouldn’t give to hear Pam Bondi argue this in a legal pleading or even on a law school exam. I got a thumbs up in legal writing class when I wrote on a test that a golf club, while not inherently an instrument of violence, could be used to inflict serious bodily injury. That was considered a valid legal argument on the facts given that day. So I would like to see Attorney General Pam Bondi argue that a molotov cocktail is a weapon of mass destruction — which is what she’s alleging. A “weapon of mass destruction” is “a weapon designed to cause widespread death, injury, or severe destruction, typically including nuclear, radiological, chemical, or biological weapons.”
Now Bondi knows damn good and well that if she tried to argue this on paper, or in court, she would be laughed out of the profession. People would be going to dinner on this stupid remark for months. But because she’s on Fox News, and trying this in the court of public opinion, then anything goes, no matter how stupid. Still and all, watching the actual attorney general of the country say something this moronic makes me cringe.
Bondi claims people are using "weapons of mass destruction" against Teslas 🙃 pic.twitter.com/n5fKCxb1dT
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 23, 2025
And of course it gets worse. This is Trump 2.0, where only two things are guaranteed: 1. Spectacle and 2. Whatever idiocy we’re talking about at the moment, just wait. It will get more idiotic.
here's footage of AG Bondi warning Jasmine Crockett today to "tread very carefully" with her anti-Elon Musk rhetoric pic.twitter.com/yZG1lnyoBA
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 24, 2025
Crockett has said bring it on. I’m pretty sure that Bondi is just blowing hot air here, but maybe she is stupid enough to elevate Jasmine Crockett to mythical status with some frivolous lawsuit. After all, if there is one thing that Donald Trump is renowned for, it is frivolous lawsuits. One would expect his attorney general to be the adult in the room, but there are no adults in this second administration. Oil and water are a better mix than responsibility and Trump.
Underscoring this theme, just earlier today Trump named Alina Habba to yet another post. She’s not only White House counsel, she is now the U.S. Attorney for the State of New Jersey. Good luck, New Jersey, with a lawyer with this kind of track record fighting for your side. If memory serves, she represented Trump in two civil cases in New York, the Trump Organization case, which was lost to the tune of $450,000,000 and the other lost to E. Jean Carroll for $83,000,000.
But hey, win some lose some, right New Jersey? And how Habba is going to show up both at the White House to render her erudite legal opinion on how Trump should protect the office of the president (because that’s the job description, protecting the office, not the personal interests of the person in the office) and be in New Jersey handling that case load, has not yet been disclosed.
But common sense decrees that in any event, New Jersey is without a U.S. Attorney because whether Habba is physically present or not is the least of her drawbacks.
The true tragedy here is that there are so many qualified lawyers in this country but Trump has chosen to surround himself with “TV lawyers” because that’s all he knows about the profession. Plus, he’s busy taking on legitimate lawyers and seeking to destroy the profession from the top down.
This is going to be an amazing four years. I don’t even want to speculate what the political or legal landscape will look like when Trump is through. But be of good cheer: Trump surrounds himself with incompetents and if the good lawyers of the country stand up to him, he can’t win. And right now it looks like that is the contest that Trump is arranging. He sees himself as the Emperor, who tries all cases with a thumbs up or a thumbs down and television is his coliseum. We’ll see, Donald. We’ll see.
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How did Bleached Blondi ever graduate from.law school?
At any other time in our history, Habba being appointed as US attorney to New Jersey would have all tongues wagging. These days it’s just Tuesday.
Bondi should be reminded that her threats carry no weight just yet, we haven’t quite descended completely into the dystopian nightmare her boss is trying to create.