Phang: Bloomberg is reporting that AG Bondi fired her personal ethics adviser on Friday. A career DOJ attorney, spent nearly 20 years at the DOJ. What harm is there in having an ethics guru? If you’re not doing anything wrong, you shouldn’t have a problem with that man being there.
Full video from Katie Phang’s YouTube channel here: youtu.be/OhfYmfSwOvQ
She's a real piece of work, such a snob!!
BEN PEN BEN PEN!
If you are covering up the Epstein’s file and violating the basic rights of migrants and Americans alike, this is exactly what you would do - fire the person who could tell you in your face that you are a criminal.
If you took a bribe from Trump to ignore the Trump University case when you were AG of Florida then you really don't have any ethics
Ethics? Isn't that something like DEI? So #woke!
We have no ethics in America. I don’t think we ever did!
Survival goes back billions of years. ROL about 5000 years. Democracy about 2500 years. Civilization is still evolving. Maslow theory seems to abandon ethics for rich. Shameful! 🤑🥺☹👨👩👦🤧🤒
It is quite the situation in America. I watch so many documentaries & thought I knew a lot, but I see I’ve just scratched the surface.🤨 Esp the documentaries comin outta FL, that state has always been, how shall I say, judgmental🫣 to say the least😡 I have to be snarky; I have limited coping skills😉
I’m not convinced there was an ethical bone to be found in the Trump Administration.
What clout does a personal ethics adviser carry? Offer suggestions, advise, offer recommendations? Or the authority to supersede actions and /or to rectify unethical actions? What actual threat would a personal ethics adviser present?
Tyrant and his wicked corrupt cronies regime need to be purged.
WHY DO SO MANY PEOPLE BUY INTO TRUMP'S PROMISES OF GRANDEUR JUST TO BE STABBED IN THE BACK AND GOING TO PRISON OR RUINATION OF ALL YOU'VE WORKED FOR IN YOUR CAREER AND LIFE?
“In our case, the truth will not set us free! It will land us in jail!”
A rather minor blip with respect to all the other crap they've been up to. I remember way back when they fired all the inspectors general.
You should, it was only a couple months ago.
That was 2,586 scandals ago, so it seems like years.
Is that all? It feels like more, way more
That's the plan. They flood the zone so much that we just become numb to it all.
Katie is GREAT 👍
None of his admin want anyone watching over them or telling them what to do, when they do wrong. They think when out of power, spread lows, get people going, when in power, target people who are "your enemies" and don't look like the orange man. I think you were all wrong who voted for him
She wasn’t utilizing him.
You should be pleased to have an ethics adviser if you have nothing to hide or crime??
🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
IF you’re not doing anything wrong. Key word: IF.
I'm guessing Hitler didn't have an ethics adviser either.
😡
It's basically ditching her conscious. The only surprise is it took her this long. Ethics is not the forte of this administration.
The position became obsolete! Like the constitutional law adviser... Why pay someone you don't need or use...
I can’t wait for the day we get to fire all these outlaws!
And then give them their fair trial for crimes against humanity.
Amen!
And the American tribunals begin!
*fire at
The message is clear...Bondi is not going to let ethics get in the way of her ambitions.
Or … why have an ethics advisor when every ethics professor in law school would give you an “F”?
There's no need for an ethics guide if you aren't concerned about ethics. It's obvious to anyone with half a brain that the executive branch isn't interested in doing what's right.
She works with a diaper wearing orange blob, that is a rapist criminal. Why waste money on an ethics advisor when you have no ethics? History will remember them.
She already knows she’s unethical, why keep someone around just to state the obvious?
Evil lurks at the DOJ
She got tired of being told, by someone who knew what they were doing, that every decision she made was unethical, improper or illegal. Her shrivelled conscience couldn’t take it any more.
Just throw a bucket of water on her and watch her melt.
Sorry no ethics or morals allowed in this administration.
I know this is SERIOUS. But hot damn, the irony. And hypocrisy. I hesitate to say aloud, Trump picks a lot of blonde bimbos for high power jobs. Isn't THAT DEI?
They believe ethics is a liberal plot.
Easier to hear the devil on the right shoulder without the angel on left interrupting all the time.
Bondi has little Ethics to boot
Miss you on television Katie, you should have a spot
Come on people you really need to get your head out of your ass. This is all public record. Where are the journalists the real journalists. You people are all shams.
Come on Katie look at the way the country has gone people can’t add, they can’t subtract they can’t do anything anymore. It’s horrible. Everything about the government is horrible. I’m glad they let go of the education and brought it back to the states, Biden bloated the Gov.
She most assuredly got tired of him telling her she was acting unethically !
There are no ethics in this entire trump administration in congress in the senate and the supreme court court they are all grifters theives, liars, and incompetent sicophants all in service to the orange dick tater
Well she is doing lots of unethical things so?
Ethics schmethics... we're self-policing. We're good 👍
It seems that ethics in the legal profession was one of those pesky things that Bondi never grasped while studying law because she never cared about others but herself. She was merely that blond that could grand stand, thus strongly felt she deserved a law degree.
Working for this administration, it's inconvenient having a conscience, either your own or one by proxy.
Before Bondi claims she "didn't know" there was an ethical issue in the future, she should be reminded that ignorance of the law is no excuse.
Supreme court wont take the case, trump will pardon her. She doesnt need to claim ignorance. She can be fully, blatantly evil and its okay.
"We don' need no steenkin ETHICS!"
Ethics?? What an outdated concept!
Bondi was Florida AG during Epstein trials. No elected official slid things under the rug for what should have been Trump/Epstein verdict the way she did. Bondi knows exactly what (and who) is in those files, and she has fired ethics advisor the same week she announces Epstein files don't exist.
Consciousness of guilt. She wants to minimize what he might say, later. To a grand jury, for example…
She despicable 🤡🤡🤡🤡
But if you're always right, and your boss is always right, and it's impossible for you to have any potential ethical conflicts that must be weighed before you take action, then why would you need an ethics adviser? Just keep hiring attorneys for each case whenever you're being investigated or sued.
Kristi Noem was running out of costumes to dress up in. Ethics advisor was one of the few that was left.
As an attorney she should want to have someone counsel her on what’s ethical behavior / ethical / conflicts. All firms have ethics counsel on staff or otherwise available. Of course if she has no intent to act ethically and doesn’t care about avoiding conflicts ….. she should be disbarred
Shitcanned for no reason after 20 years!?🤬🤬
Hopefully he didn’t have to sign an NDA on his way out. I’d really love to hear how that went down!
I suppose once she got brought onboard by Trump, she realized she no longer needed any sort of ethics guru.
But not surprising 😕
Well, that’s a useless job now. Republicans, particularly the evangelicals, don’t have ethics.
When you have no ethics why would you need an ethics advisor??? Magat reasoning!
Sounds more like a deep state puppeteer & she didn't want to have strings pulled to force her to say what they wished. those that control "ethics" can control what can & can't be said aka censorship or propagandist. it's a trick Nazi's once used, but we all know is as controlling wrong think.
Also 20 years might also mean they might have had ties with Jeffrey Epstein too. That is a big might without all the info here. but if you take that though to it's next step, I think Bloomberg is in on all this Pro Nazi take over of the USA & is helping covering it all up.
But when has the Media ever lied or omitted Info/Data to cover-up something? (Never, Right? cause only Nazi Omits or cover-up info to make there group or power structures look good)
WE KNOW WHAT THE PROBLEM IS!!!
No more Ethics?🫤
Guess you’d fire your fashion consultant if you insist upon wearing Crocs too.
Unemploy Pam Bondi and her assistants. Rehire their ethics adviser!
She didn't fire Joseph. Apparently, she fired some guy named Jospeh. 🤷♀️🤦♀️
Ethics gurus in DC are going to have a hard time finding work with the most criminal and treasonous administration in US history is destroying the country.
What's the point of having an ethics advisor when all that you do, all that you're allowed to do, is exactly what Trump, a felon, tells you.
Foxx must be the most loathsome person ever to ‘serve’ in a public office.
Does no one see the irony of bondi having a personal ethics anything?
She got sick of hearing him tell her that's unethical! So YOUR FIRED!
It’s all to do with plausible deniability - an ethics advisor paper trail is not helpful when they get investigated
Nah. . .don't need oversight. . .
Ethics—-> integrity ——> justice. Honestly this person must have been doing a bad job. For more than 6 months now I see none of this from the current DOJ
she fired him because she can not spell the word let alone it's meaning
She is threatened by anyone who is confident in their job. So what does she do? She fires them and everything falls apart.
Didn’t Blondie have a baby, with her SENIOR personal ethics advisor ???! That’s how she got the job, in the first place !!!
Remember Epstein was in jail because he was indicted on sex trafficking charges, awaiting trial & denied bail. Federal charges! Conclusion: there *is* a file, there *is* ceased evidence & it *is* ethical to release it. Unless it is politically disadvantageous to release it. Kind of unethical.
I'm pretty sure he was pushing back hard on all her bullshit and she couldn't stand it anymore so she fired him.
There was too much truth telling and not enough ass kissing?
But Katie, you're being unfair. Bondi is just trying to save taxpayer dollars but firing her ethics advisor. She knows all her (and the other department heads) actions are going to be totally unethical, political, etc. and she knows they wouldn't follow the advisors advise, so why waste the money.
Truth hurts them
She is so corrupt it’s sickening
What "ethics?"
She'll try to blame him for the Epstein files and convince MAGA he was behind the cover up while the documents still aren't released.
Seems like something a very unethical person would do.
Maybe this will lead to an opportunity for her disbarment?
Fecking trump regime needs to be REMOVED!!!!!
Makes sense. She had no need for ethics.
She HAD a “personal ethics” advisor…?
Why did she need an ethics guru in the first place when everybody knows Florida lawmakers can't find ethics in Black's Law Dictionary?
Ethics, morals, what are those?
Who was her ethics advisor, Cersie Lannister?
She’s just gotten tired of him saying ‘DON’T DO IT”
Of course, if you think that you never do anything wrong, you don’t need an ethics advisor then either.
Bondi has hired a new replacement (Charlie Manson). Fact that he's also dead is just a plus as he won't admonish her.
My god, what would she have done up until now WITHOUT an ethics advisor 😳
Ethics, schmethics. Who needs 'em. Certainly no one in the trump administration.
“Pam—“ “Don’t say it, Fred, I swear to GOD.” “But Pam—“ “OUT! You’re DONE! If I wanted to be ethical, don’t you think I would? There’s NO ROOM for ethics in this regime.”
Let’s be clear from what we’ve observed Bondi and the Trump regime couldn’t be less interested in being ethical.
When will she be disbarred?
So, who is there to answer your ordinary everyday ethics questions? (Nevermind the policy-level ethics dilemnas!)
rules? where they're going they don't need rules!
AG bodibis a crooked person also and most likely trying to cover up some facts perhaps of Trump's involvement s with Epstein etc?????
Mega would be screaming for her execution if she were a Democrat.
She is very dumb and they will fire anyone questions their authority or their stupid Trump.
Then I'd have to assume she and others had or were going too, break the law, and didn't want anybody to know what was going on.
They don’t care if we know what’s going on! It’s obvious! When you say you’re cutting federal jobs 2 curb spending but spend billions on prisons, starve children & secretly give MUSK💰2 shut him up & he took it- a 3rd Party my ass, get real nepo baby #Epstein (boys&girls) Welcome 2 THE GOLDEN AGE
More like the Bronze age.
We really need to unite as a people and start to get serious.The sycophants have no ethics. They are having people yanked out of their daily lives, off the streets and throwing them into these horrific tent camps where they are in cages, and other detention centers, with no due process. Lawless.
That’s right
Bondi is a criminal, like her criminal felon boss, can’t have someone with ethics looking over their shoulder, now can they
She got rid of him so she can do illegal things and you are correct if you’re doing legal things, there’s no problem having an ethics advisor!!!! But yet we know that this whole administration has no ethics that is why they got rid of all the IG’s!!!
But #Bondi has absolutely no ethics, why would she need an advisor?
Pam Perjury Blondi thinks she's above the law. Just as the whole regime does. Reeking of corruption while they burn the place down. KKKSC6 has no ethics, Blondi doesn't want any either. Maybe she was offered a plane too & doesn't want to disclose it. Surely she's trying to cover up her illegality.
I’m surprised she didn’t fire him her first day….we’re talking about her and the felon and the rest of the regime who have absolutely no ethics,and at this point who’s going to stop them? The SCOTUS? It’s all laughable at this point and all you can say is WTAF
WTAF Day after day and it just keeps coming! Again WTAF! Is there any sane, honorable Politician that will stand up for the rule of Law/ CONSTITUTION??????
Sorry. NO NADA
He, or she, is probably relieved! Handling ethical issues for Bondi would require 24/7 attention 🧌
Bondi has a lot to hide. She appears to be a career criminal like Orange Shitler, just not as experienced.
Someone needs to remind Bondi that ignorance of the law is not an effective legal defense
nor is orange-ass-kissing
I think Pam Bondi forgot to pack her ethics and morals when she moved to Washington DC
Ethics and morals are hard to find inside the beltway.
It appears she didn’t have any to pack.
That would be my take on it. She is, after all, the person who accepted a $25k bribe -err, campaign contribution - during Chump's 1st run for president to drop Florida's investigation into Chump University.
Well put.
Ethics? Who needs Stinkin Ethics?
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She lost her moral compass
I mean, this might be the most ethical thing Pam’s ever done… Ethics is on life support under this administration—imagine the advisor.
The guy actually raised an ethics question regarding the Epstein files and was fired. The US has become a lawless immoral cesspool. It is has gone full maffia state where government and crime have merged into one big ‘piovra’. The US is doomed.
No smart people will ever work for the federal government again for the same reason our NATO allies will never trust us again: the American people cannot be trusted to not re-elect lunatics.
Pam Bond, TACO’s lapdog, NOT America’s Attorney General. She should probably be impeached along with Donnie. (Can she be impeached?).
Ethics and “Blondi”? Haha ha ha ha ha ha😂😂😂 trumps “different kind of hooker” wouldn’t know ethics if they introduced themselves to her. She is as crooked as dog’s hind leg and the justice department is an oxymoron under her non leadership. Would be better suited to waiting tables at Mara lago
He just doesn’t fit in the Klan’s plan.
I’m sure he failed to display “appropriate enthusiasm for the president’s program.” Human slime who have no problem with deporting child citizens with cancer and sending innocent people to life in a concentration camp really don’t have any use for an ethics guru, do they?
Pan must be setting up a child trafficking ring out of the DOJ, now that Trump has gotten away with raping children.
It’s so completely obvious, what a joke she is, especially in such a powerful position!
speaking of Dept of Justice . . . The Dept. of Justice is useless for those seeking JUSTICE
She's hiring a new one, he's Epstein's former ethics advisor.
Every day, more outrageous news involving Trumps team!!
one does not require an ethics advisor when one does not possess a conscience
These people getting fired need to spill their guts.
Why hasn't Bondi been disbarred?
She don’t need no damn ethics adviser…she needs a f*king soul. #wayoverherhead
She's the female equivalent of trump. Only the best people, right?
Too bad about another job loss. SO...ethics are out?
We don’t need no stinking ethics!
The GOP motto!
No ethics = no ethics advisor needed
forgive me for using all caps, but, SHE DOESN'T WANT AN ETHICS ADVISOR, BECAUSE SHE HAS ZERO ETHICS!!
She had a WHAT?
Trump and his Pack of Criminals
She had never had any ethics!!!
Why pay an ethics advisor if you don’t plan on doing anything ethical regardless of what they say?
A hopeful distraction from Epsteingate.
Problem is...Bondi has no ethics and doesn't care to.
The only way to erase history and cover your tracks is to remove it's barriers. Fire the Ethics counsel. How long will this letter stay posted on the site? www.justice.gov/ag/media/139...
Proving the existence
As a lawyer, can confirm that ethics is a HUGE part of our job and many State Bar associations have ethics hotlines that we can call when we have an ethics question. AGs don’t have a week to wait for an ethics hotline to get back w/an answer, which is why they need an ethics expert on-hand.
The Daily Beans podcast does a segment called “good trouble”- something the listeners can do every day to try to hold this regime accountable. About a month ago, the “assignment” was to call the Florida state bar association & report Bondi. Maybe this request needs to be repeated….again & again!
When you have no ethics you don’t need an advisor! Get them on Rachel Maddow!
She wasn't going to listen to them anyway.
And, she could have just ignored him, which she obviously was already doing.
Ethics is not part of the Trump regime
He must have told someone no for idk a big plane or other cool stuff…
Gee, maybe they are doing something unethical, you think?
... WTF! 🤨 her personal ethics adviser. Why have one now. She never needed one as AG with Alexander Acosta ...
Bitch!
MAGA don’t do “ethics”.
Nobody in this administration has any use for ethics or morality. They are soulless trash.
If she’s just going to ignore him, why not save the salary?
Now she should speak out!!
Love you Katie! I so appreciate the perfect amount of snark carefully woven into the important news stories you give us!
She’s so unethical
Well if you have no use for or respect for ethics, why bother?? this WH is the ultimate grift, it's a bed of nails for the people of the US
It should be much harder to fire people - except presidents.
@katiephang.bsky.social call him up and interview him asap!!!
Bondi has plenty of ethics problems.
Fish lips needs to go!
This regime wants NO witnesses.
Phang nailed it. This is an awful look for Bondi, but given the company she keeps, this isn't shocking.
Probably fired for doing a poor job
After 20 years, I doubt it. For you to even say is embarrassing.
Indirect reference to Bondi not known for having any morals
The harm for her is that she doesn’t want anyone telling her “no, you can’t do that”. She’s as crooked as a dogs hind leg and her arrogance is way beyond comprehension. Just like all the others in the administration.
Maybe she'll get herself in such a mess, even Roberts can't get her out!
She has ethics? Surprise to me. No one in that entire Cabinet has ethics. Nor the VP or you know who with initials DT
Surprised it wasn’t her first firing. #pinks
He likely made the mistake of doing his job correctly
Everything good about the United States and Our Government is being destroyed by Trump and his Accomplices. This must be stopped now, because if Trump is not stopped now there will be nothing left, nothing to save!
Well they obviously were not up to the job were they ? Shocked she even had one !!!
Blondi figured out she doesn't need an ethics advisor because she has no ethics
My sense is that Bondi’s ethics advisor was fired for advising Bondi on ethics.
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Lesson learned (or not?): Don't get government job in US.
If you don’t care about ethics & don’t plan on following through with what might be ethical, why have an advisor?
Who complains about fact-checking during a debate? A liar. Don't these people understand this? Self-awareness 101. Duh.
What ethical roadblock did he put in front of Pam?
www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/07...
One would need to have ethics to value an ethics adviser.
This. 👆
No ethics in this regime anyway.
She's frustrated at the moment. Bongo is giving her flack, and she felt the need to flex. There's no better demonstration of power (in their minds) than in firing someone.
Somebody acting "ethical" makes Bondi look bad.
Pretty much everything they do is unethical, and now they can keep doing it because there is no one looking over their shoulders. Just like they did with the military!
They think We the People are either ignorant or not paying attention.
Bondi only plays a Lawyer on TV.
She would need to be ethical in the first place, a skill set she's incapable of holding.
Pam Bonghit must go.
I get it. I just fired my dog walker. Turns out, I don’t have a dog.
Prudent people might suspect: If you fire honest AGs, it's because you intend to commit crimes. If you fire honorable staff lawyers, it's because you intend to lie to courts. If you fire ethics advisors, it's because you intend to violate ethics rules.
obviously the ethics advisor advised her that her ethics were unethical.
He needs to write a book ASAP
It's not like he'll talk or sue or anything . . . .
If you have no ethics then an ethics adviser is superfluous.
Crap employer
Bondi has no ethics.
Blondie ACTUALLY HAD AN ETHICS ADVISOR??? What could possibly have been their conversations? She was probably sick and tired of hearing the same thing over and over, and had to fire somebody to scapegoat blame for all the MAGA heat. It won’t make their idiotic Epstein fetish go away.