Trump Should Have Fired Bondi and Carr on the Spot for their Outrageous Comments
Pam Bondi said the Justice Department would absolutely target you and go after you if you’re targeting anyone with hate speech. That’s what she declared on Katie Miller’s podcast, right after the killing of Charlie Kirk, claiming there’s free speech and then there’s hate speech with no place in society. She should have been fired on the spot for those remarks. Having the head of the Justice Department who doesn’t know in her bones that hate speech is purely constitutional— as clearly stated by the Supreme Court, protected by the First Amendment unless it incites violence or true threats—is beyond the pale. Bondi’s either clueless or itching to weaponize the DOJ against dissent, and her lame backtrack the next day, saying she only meant violent threats, doesn’t erase the chill she cast on free expression. Trump letting her slide shows he’s either blind or bought in.
Brendan Carr said he is going to use his position as FCC chair to go after Trump’s media enemies, warning stations they better serve the public interest or face the consequences—like when he threatened Jimmy Kimmel’s show with “we can do this the easy way or the hard way” over critical jokes. He needed to be fired on the spot for saying that. Anybody using their role in a regulatory body for partisan hits, pressuring networks and affiliates to silence critics, is a straight-up abuse of power. The FCC exists to protect broadcast freedom, not to play enforcer for the White House. Carr’s threats have already forced suspensions and scared off deals, turning a watchdog into an attack dog—and Trump’s praise of him as a “patriot with courage” only fuels the fire.
Trump should have fired both Bondi and Carr immediately, but his inaction screams complicity or worse—he’s egging them on. When pressed on Bondi’s hate speech nonsense, he didn’t defend the First Amendment; he threatened reporters right back, saying he’d go after outlets like ABC for “unfair” coverage. That’s not leading—it’s leading a charge against liberty. By keeping these two in power, Trump’s greenlighting a slide into authoritarian tactics, where government muscle crushes speech he doesn’t like. Whether he’s directing the hits or disinclined to stop them, this betrayal erodes the core of American freedom and warns of darker days ahead if it doesn’t end now.