Joe Scarborough Says Bondi Ended Up ‘Like Every Other’ Trump ‘Sycophant’ – ‘Thrown Under the Bus’

Joe Scarborough reflected that former Attorney General Pam Bondi ended up “just like every other sycophant” in President Donald Trump’s orbit: “fired,” “humiliated,” and “thrown under the bus.”

Bondi became the second cabinet official to be fired by Trump on Thursday, days after the ouster of Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, when the president took to Truth Social to announce she would be leaving her role for a gig in the private sector.

In his post, Trump thanked her as “a Great American Patriot and a loyal friend.”

Opening Friday’s Morning Joe, the crew reflected on the news, noting that Bondi’s difficulty in delivering on prosecutions against the president’s perceived opponents and her widely criticized handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files release.

Scarborough, however, claimed Bondi’s downfall could have been predicted from the start as he warned “being a sycophant doesn’t work at the end.”

“We remember it was maybe back in September of last year where the president frantically sent a direct message, what he thought was a direct message on Truth Social to Pam Bondi, when in fact it was read by the entire world, where he said, ‘Quick, hurry up, time’s running out.’ And then suggested she start prosecuting his political enemies,” he said.

He continued: “That would have been a great time for her to actually take a stand against Donald Trump. I have, obviously, I’ve known him for a long time, and I’ve explained to House speakers, I’ve explained the incoming agency heads, I’ve explained to anybody who asks me: Listen, being a sycophant doesn’t work. At the end, if you’re a sycophant, you end up just like every other sycophant that’s come in and gone out of that office. You get fired, you get humiliated, you get thrown under the bus.”

The host said that perhaps someone will get fired for standing up to the president, at some point. He added: “Much better to be fired for being a truth teller than being fired by being a sycophant who can’t prosecute political enemies, because the court’s just not going to allow [Bondi] or any other attorney general to do that.”

After presidential historian and MS NOW contributor Jon Meacham noted that this was an active decision for many in the Trump administration, which he likened to a “king’s court,” Scarborough again rounded on Bondi’s attempts to show fealty to the president during congressional hearings.

“She was, as The Washington Post said, a sycophant from day one, giving just over the top flowery praise of Donald Trump that having that performance in the Judiciary Committee, that was cringeworthy even for Republican members of the House and Senate,” he said.

He continued, arguing the former attorney general brought some of the ire on herself: “But Pam Bondi also did other things that, you know, offended the base – ‘I’ve got the [Epstein] files on my desk.’ Then when the Epstein files are finally released, she doesn’t release enough to please the MAGA base, and she releases too much for the Republican president, right? So, she gets it both ways.”

“And then finally, all of these lawfare episodes, just the most preposterous charges, so preposterous that you not only have courts stopping it, you have grand juries doing something grand juries hardly ever do and refusing to indict. So yeah, a lot of things were out of her hands and her control, but certainly she didn’t make things easier on herself from day one,” he concluded.

Watch above via MS NOW.

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