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LetMyPeopleVote

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Mon Jul 14, 2025, 07:40 PM Monday

In apparent desperation, AG Pam Bondi drops a closely watched criminal case

The attorney general intervened in a case important to the far-right fringe just as she was looking to improve her standing with the far-right fringe.

AG Pam Bondi intervened in a trial important to the far-right fringe — before jurors could consider evidence — just as she was looking to improve her standing with the far-right fringe.

Her decision to drop the criminal case against Kirk Moore deserves to be seen as a scandal unto itself.

Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2025-07-14T18:54:23.746Z

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/ag-pam-bondi-drops-closely-watched-criminal-case-plastic-surgeon-utah-rcna218687

It’s against this backdrop that the struggling AG made a striking announcement over the weekend. The Associated Press reported:

The federal government on Saturday dismissed charges against a Utah plastic surgeon accused of throwing away Covid-19 vaccines, giving children saline shots instead of the vaccine and selling faked vaccination cards. U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi said in a post on the social media platform X that charges against Dr. Michael Kirk Moore, of Midvale, Utah, were dismissed at her direction.


For those who aren’t mired in far-right fever swamps, Moore’s name is probably unfamiliar. But in some right-wing circles, he and the case against him have become a subject of intense interest lately.

The criminal case against Moore was relatively straightforward. The Utah-based plastic surgeon, according to evidence compiled by federal prosecutors, allegedly destroyed over $28 million worth of government-provided Covid vaccines, issued fraudulent vaccination record cards — in some instances, in exchange for cash — and administered saline shots to children instead of the Covid vaccine.....

It was around this time when Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia embraced Moore’s case as a rallying cry, asking the Justice Department to abandon the case.

Five days later, Bondi did exactly that, insisting that the Utah doctor did not “deserve” the prison sentence he was facing. The attorney general specifically credited Greene, one of the most right-wing members of Congress in recent memory, for bringing the case to her attention and for having been a “warrior for Dr. Moore.”

To be sure, it’s possible that Bondi would’ve intervened in the case even if many MAGA activists weren’t calling for her ouster, but it’s quite a coincidence that the attorney general scrambled to intervene in a case important to the far-right fringe just as she was looking to improve her standing with the far-right fringe.

As for the larger context, the nation’s chief law enforcement officer effectively declared that those who commit professional fraud, on purpose, can expect to get away with overt criminal misconduct if (a) conservatives approve of the motivation behind the fraud; (b) the attorney general is feeling politically desperate; or (c) some combination of the two.
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In apparent desperation, AG Pam Bondi drops a closely watched criminal case (Original Post) LetMyPeopleVote Monday OP
Or she thinks she's recruiting a base for a Prez run roflmao!!.... I use "thinks" quite loosely ;) n/t Cheezoholic Monday #1
So incredibly corrupt. Baitball Blogger Monday #2
Trump America where nothing is illegal Johonny Monday #3
Bondi is probably the worst attorney general in U.S. history. dalton99a Monday #4
Easily the most corrupt. GoodRaisin Monday #5

Cheezoholic

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1. Or she thinks she's recruiting a base for a Prez run roflmao!!.... I use "thinks" quite loosely ;) n/t
Mon Jul 14, 2025, 07:56 PM
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Johonny

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3. Trump America where nothing is illegal
Mon Jul 14, 2025, 10:11 PM
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And everything is illegal, it just depends on the whims of the state.

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