The Cult Lieutenant and the Cost to Every Girl Watching

In authoritarian systems, power depends on loyalty—not truth.

This is the essence of a cult of personality: where the leader is untouchable, and those around him rise or fall based on how well they serve his image.

In this system, there are no public servants—only enablers.

Pam Bondi, once Florida’s attorney general and now the U.S. Attorney General under Donald, has become the ultimate cult lieutenant: a woman who uses her platform not to protect the people, but to protect the man.

Under oath at her confirmation hearing, Bondi swore:

“If I thought that [being pressured by the White House] would happen, I would not be sitting here today. That will not happen.”

But it did happen. She promised independence, and then did the opposite—deflecting for Donald, shielding him from accountability, and weaponizing the Department of Justice against his critics.

She may not have committed perjury in the legal sense, but the ethical betrayal is undeniable.

This isn’t just about politics. It’s about the cost of watching a woman in power betray everything power is supposed to protect.

As Attorney General of the United States of America, Pam Bondi hasn’t just been betraying justice—she’s been betraying every little girl who ever looked to a woman in power and hoped to be protected.

Every survivor. Every woman who ever fought her way out of an abusive relationship, looked a narcissist in the eye, and said:

No more.

She stood there—before the largest audience the world has ever seen—not as a lawyer, not as a public servant, not as a woman of conscience.

She stood there as a cult lieutenant.

Not just selling out the country.

But selling out herself.

Selling out the soul of what it means to be a protector, a truth-teller, a woman with power.

And that’s what makes her so dangerous—not just to me, but to women and girls everywhere.

When a woman in power uses her position to protect predators and punish truth-tellers, she doesn’t just betray her oath—she betrays every woman who’s ever been silenced.

She becomes a weapon in the hands of the most dangerous man alive.

And the ones who pay the highest price are the young girls—teens, tweens—just starting to understand who they are.

That’s when the damage was done to me.

And even now, after years of fighting, learning, healing—I still carry it.

Because that kind of betrayal—by a woman standing beside the most powerful man in the world—cuts the deepest and creates irreparable harm not just to individual women, but to the entire cultural fabric of what it means to be safe, to speak up, to survive—as a woman in the United States of America.

And boys are watching too—learning from her example that loyalty matters more than truth, that power is permission, and that real men are the ones who demand submission from the women around them.

Because when a woman like that pledges loyalty to a man like Donald—over children, over truth, over victims—she’s not just making a political decision.

She’s making a statement to every girl who’s ever been harmed:

You don’t matter.

I will stand beside your abuser if it benefits me.

That’s not just complicity.

That’s modeling submission as virtue.

That’s teaching a whole new generation that if you’re pretty enough, loyal enough, and cruel enough, you too can rise—so long as you never challenge the king.

Right, Alina Habba?

As a woman who has survived abuse myself—emotional, psychological, physical, and spiritual—I can tell you this: watching Pam Bondi isn’t just upsetting.

It’s triggering. It’s retraumatizing.

It’s a reminder of how deep the cult goes. How hard it is to escape.

And how easy it is to be punished for trying.

She doesn’t need to sell her body—she sells her integrity.

She prostitutes her power for favor, protection, and a place at the feet of the man who breaks everything he touches.

And every girl watching learns what it costs to survive in a man’s world.

There is no redemption in obedience to a tyrant.

There is no honor in loyalty to a lie.

And there is nothing—nothing—feminine or powerful about being used.

What Can We Do?

If you’re feeling as discouraged as I am, you’re not alone.

But here’s where we start:

• Talk to your daughters—and your sons.

Tell them why what Bondi is modeling is not power, not loyalty, not strength. It is surrender disguised as success.

• Name it.

Don’t let this moment pass in silence. When public figures betray the vulnerable, we have to speak it aloud—clearly, morally, and often.

• Demand accountability.

Write to your representatives. Ask what oversight exists for the Attorney General’s conduct. Ask if Congress is watching.

• Support survivors.

If you know someone harmed by abuse or silence, tell them you believe them. Stand with them. Say their truth matters more than any title ever could.

• Refuse to raise the next generation in this mold.

Be louder than the cult. Be clearer than the lie. Be braver than the performance of power. Show what real integrity looks like.

Because no matter how high the pedestal, no woman who betrays other women deserves to stand unchallenged.