Journalist and political strategist Christopher Armitage expressed frustration Monday over a “very illegal act” allegedly committed by ex-Attorney General Pam Bondi, as well as how holding her to account remained “a single subpoena” away.
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The act in question was Bondi’s sale of Trump media securities in April of 2025 – sales that she made just “hours” before Trump announced his so-called reciprocal tariffs that immediately “sank the stock she had just left,” Armitage wrote in an analysis published Monday on his Substack, The Existentialist Republic.
According to Armitage, Bondi sold “as much as $5.5 million” worth of Trump media securities, and as of August, 14 months after the incident, no case has been opened against Bondi on suspicion of insider trading.
“Martha Stewart went to federal prison for something smaller than this. Her case grew out of a stock sale worth $45,673,” Armitage wrote.
“She sold her ImClone shares in December 2001, one day before bad news about the company went public, and the government convicted her in 2004, not for the trade itself but for lying to the investigators who questioned her about it. She served five months. Stewart was no ordinary citizen either. She was rich, famous, and connected, and none of it stopped the prosecution.”
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Bondi’s disclosure forms document her sale of as much as $5.5 million worth of Trump securities, but only include a broad range of the amount of shares sold and the sale date. As argued by Armitage, other telling details of the sale could be obtained with a single legal maneuver.
“Her disclosure form records the date of the sale and nothing else. It does not record the time, the price, or what she knew,” Armitage wrote. “Broker execution records answer the first two, and the first two are evidence of the third. A single subpoena would produce them. The federal government has not issued that subpoena.”
Furthermore, state officials are also capable of probing Bondi’s stock trades for evidence of insider trading, a tool that can circumvent potential stonewalling by the Trump administration, Armitage argued.
“New York State can still charge this,” he wrote. “No pardon can stop it, no attorney general can quash it.”
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