Pam Bondi Declares the Epstein Files Meaningless Because the Dow Jones Industrial Average Has Surpassed 50,000 Points.

This is what happens when you give children the keys to the family car, you get distractions, along with dented fenders. And Donald Trump has done that across his entire Cabinet. Forget the Epstein Story for just a moment (which is what she intended) while we reflect upon competencies.

· Marco Rubio, Secretary of State: At 55 years old, Marco Rubio is not incompetent, but a B player, willing to adjust his principals to his president’s liking, and far more politician than counselor. His position as Sec State and acting National Security Adviser is only the second time those positions have been held by one man since Henry Kissinger. This illustrates as well as anything, how ambition, when subservient to incompetent leadership, works to undermine Rubio’s international reputation.

· Scott Bessent, Secretary of the Treasury, is unknown except on Wall Street and entirely insulated from any social consequences (as is most of the investor class) of the systems he both manages and profits from. Head of his own hedge fund, he has enormous economic influence, exercised without the slightest public accountability.

· Pete Hegseth, oh my. Secretary of Defense, an unmitigated disaster, ass-kissing his way to control of the world’s most powerful military. A recovering alcoholic, experienced only as a FOX News host, his misjudgments are legion.

· Pam Bondi, Attorney General. Her mishandling of the Epstein material was criticized as largely a ‘political stunt’ with heavily redacted or unhelpful releases, a failure to provide real transparency or new substantive information, and a missed opportunity to restore trust. Incompetent, with no appropriate legal background to hold the position.

· Kristi Noem, Secretary of Homeland Security. The entire ‘masked and blacked out’ DHS operation under her management has been an unmitigated disaster of citizen kidnappings, violent deaths and deportations without legal counsel. More Gestapo than Security.

· Tulsi Gabbard, Director of National Intelligence. Goes without saying that intelligence is required. Gabbard fails to check that box.

As for the rest of them, as Vice President John (Cactus Jack) Garner once said about his own vice-presidency, “it ain’t worth a bucket of warm spit.” Politicians were plain speakers in those times, and we were the better for it.

We can look forward to such Epstein distractions until the mid-terms, if we are actually allowed to have mid-terms.

The illegal Venezuelan kidnapping of their legally elected president worked for a few weeks, then fizzled. Immigrant attacks in Minneapolis were becoming more, and more, negative for Trump, so he attacked Iran, without a plan. The possibility of that becoming a far wider conflict is likely, but thus far it’s only another illegal war in a Congress that dares not stand up for its constitutional right to declare wars.

Trump is not the only president to break that rule. America has not bothered to properly declare a war since World War Two. We have proven ourselves perfectly content to lose undeclared wars, a record five of which we have lost to car-bombs and insurgents.

But Bondi’s Dow Jones excuse is a slippery-slope when combined with an (illegal) attack on Iran, and the worldwide chaos Trump initiated with his (again illegal) tariff policies.

That’s a very long (and possibly muddy) road.

How about repaying those multi-billion-dollar tariffs?

Have you discussed any of this with Vladimir?

If Greenland is not available for occupation, there’s always Cuba. Marco Rubio is Cuban by parentage. He might have a view on that. I’m almost positive that your view would be his view.

After all, that’s what Cabinet Officers are there for.