Former officials say Pam Bondi’s firing reflects a fundamental limit: as Mary McCord notes, prosecutions require real evidence and grand juries that won’t simply deliver politically driven indictments. “That's not going to change because somebody else is then in the position of the Attorney General,” she says. George Conway adds that working for Trump presents its own challenge: “It’s very difficult to be evil enough, and depraved enough, and corrupt enough, and grifting enough for Donald Trump.”

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