P am Bondi should’ve known it would come to this. The president — the man who put her in office as attorney general of the United States and now can remove her — insists on indictments of his political enemies, evidence be damned. The attorney general is in an impossible bind, and she put herself there when she took the job.

It marked instead the latest step in an escalating pressure campaign by President Trump to more aggressively target his political enemies.

Trump has escalated moves to consolidate power in his second administration and root out those who have spoken out against him.