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How Tied In Is Pam Bondi to Scientology? What Did She Do for Pfizer?

By John Zmirak Published on July 15, 2025

Many of President Donald Trump’s most fervent supporters are deeply frustrated by the feds’ slug-like progress in cleaning up federal law enforcement and decontaminating our fascist, rogue Deep State. Consider that on Day One of his administration, President Barack Obama both demanded and got the resignation of every U.S. attorney in the country. He moved swiftly to purge conservatives from federal bureaus and fill up the ranks of the permanent government with carefully vetted loyalists — many of whom are still in place, despite this being the second Trump administration.

Those apparatchiks colluded with anti-Trump Republicans, including Senators Lindsay Graham and John McCain, to concoct the Russia collusion hoax that led to Trump’s first fake impeachment. They also tried to imprison General Mike Flynn, among other Trump supporters they targeted. The same coalition drove the narrative that the January 6 election integrity protest, hijacked by FBI infiltrators, was the worst attack on America since September 11, 2001, or perhaps even Pearl Harbor.

The Swamp remains undrained, and many of those spooks and hacks are still prosecuting good people. For instance, the Department of Justice was hunting COVID panic hero Dr. Kirk Moore, who helped patients evade immoral vaccine mandates, until last week. It took the heroic activism of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Green to pressure Attorney General Pam Bondi into dropping this Biden-era case; Bondi claimed she’d actually been unaware of the prosecution. Do we think the Obama or Biden team would have taken seven months to halt a comparable Republican witch hunt?

However, there have been some good developments of late:

  • In the past week, Bondi fired 20 of the worst Justice Department officials who hunted peaceful January 6 protestors and other Trump supporters.
  • Last week, someone leaked to Fox News that former CIA Director John Brennan and ex-FBI Director James Comey face a criminal investigation for their lies to Congress concerning the Russia collusion hoax. Will Bondi move forward with such a prosecution? Trump supporters worry that she won’t, and that these Deep State conspirators will just go on writing self-serving memoirs and making paid appearances on MSNBC — even as Trump supporters imprisoned for trespassing try to rebuild the ruins of their lives.
  • The Trump administration is continuing to dig into the autopen scandal to find out if Joe Biden actually authorized all of the late-night pardons White House officials granted to the likes of COVID creator Dr. Anthony Fauci, every member of the corrupt and politicized January 6 Committee in the House of Representatives, and a Chinese national who admitted to having 47,000 child pornography images on his computer.

The Epstein Scandal Won’t Go Away

All the above is welcome, if long overdue and only the tip of a deep, dirty iceberg. But the Trump administration’s catastrophic mishandling of the Jeffrey Epstein scandal — especially Pam Bondi’s role in first touting transparency, then claiming that no Epstein client lists even exist — continues to hemorrhage trust within the MAGA base. Last week, well-informed gadfly Laura Loomer reported on powerful tensions inside Trump’s own team:


Since then, Julie Kelly has reported on a possible rapprochement:

Bondi’s Pfizer Ties Should Trouble Us

I don’t claim to know whether Bondi’s days as Attorney General are numbered. Was she simply following the president’s orders, and would her firing amount to sacrificing a scapegoat? Some argue that’s the case. However, I think that as we consider the prospect she might be leaving, we ought to consider some issues that should have arisen during her confirmation hearings — or better yet, in the vetting process before Trump settled on her as his replacement for the worthy, if unconfirmable, Matt Gaetz.

The first is Bondi’s past work for Pfizer — the Big Pharma company responsible for one of the worst mRNA “vaccines.” Pfizer is now widely accused of covering up adverse reactions among early recipients, including thousands of miscarriages. The Miami Herald reports:

For the past several years, pharmaceutical giant Pfizer has been under investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice for potential foreign corruption violations related to its activities in China and Mexico, according to the company’s financial filings. But that appears to have changed after the Trump administration tapped Pam Bondi — previously an outside legal counsel for Pfizer — to lead the Justice Department as attorney general.

In the company’s most recent annual report, filed three weeks after Bondi took office in early February, there was no longer any reference to the Justice Department investigations into the company’s potential violation of the Foreign Corrupt Practice Act. A quarterly report in May also contains no reference to these investigations.

To my mind, any ties to Pfizer should have been disqualifying. But as we contemplate the murky depths of the Epstein scandal and its epically incompetent handling by this administration, our thoughts should turn to another organization every bit as evil as Pfizer with which Bondi has linked herself: Scientology.

A Mind-Control Cult

As Newsweek reported in 2024:

Donald Trump’s nominee for Attorney General Pam Bondi has held ties to the Church of Scientology at various points throughout her career.

Bondi made history in 2010 when she was elected as Florida’s first female attorney general, a job she held until 2019.

During her tenure she accepted campaign contributions from Scientologists and attended multiple fundraisers organized by prominent members of the church.

A fundraiser for Bondi’s reelection campaign in 2014 in Clearwater, Florida, was organized by six prominent Scientologists, the Tampa Bay Times reported at the time. Christina Johnson, Bondi’s campaign spokeswoman, told the newspaper that Bondi was aware that Scientologists were staging the event.

Scientology is a metaphysical movement which charges members many thousands of dollars for astral insights about alien space lords that it doles out in dribs and drabs. It has been widely accused of mind control, blackmail, legal harassment, physical abuse of members, and witch-hunt persecutions of those who leave its clutches. Saturday Night Live performed a skit that parodies an infamous Scientology recruitment video from the 1990s, highting the kind of complaints ex-members have made about the highly profitable “church”:

That’s all in good fun. But what do we know about the founder of Scientology, L. Ron Hubbard (1911-1986), the author of its founding text, Dianetics? In the past, whole books have been written about this former science fiction novelist who claimed to have discovered the secret to maximizing human potential. Currently, whole teams of attorneys work for the Church of Scientology, discouraging public criticism of its prophet. So I’ll stick to what’s indisputably on the public record.

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In 1945, after a checkered military career, Hubbard moved into the home of rocketry pioneer Jack Parsons, inventor of solid fuel and founder of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory near Pasadena, California. For all his scientific interests, Parsons was also a longtime Satanist — a friend of the infamous occultist Aleister Crowley. Summarizing a biography of Parsons, Sex and Rockets: The Occult World of Jack Parsons, Gizmodo reports:

A war veteran who told crazy stories and eagerly lapped up Crowley’s spiritualism, Hubbard became Parson’s great ally in the scientist’s quest to incarnate the goddess Babalon on Earth. Babalon would be a bewitching redhead, who would eventually give birth to the Antichrist. In his book about Parsons, Carson describes Hubbard and Parsons’s joint rituals in great detail. Since Babalon was a sensual entity, raising her required Parsons to masturbate repeatedly, releasing his seed on a parchment while Hubbard chanted rituals and took notes. Often, Parson’s own notes on these rituals make mention of “invoking” with a “wand.” [emphasis added] …

For those familiar with the basic outlines of Scientology, it will sound quite similar to [Aleister Crowley’s occult activities]. To achieve enlightenment, one ascended through many numerical “steps” on the way, gaining access to more secrets and rituals from Crowley as the apprenticeship went on. Giving money to Crowley was a good way to get more of his secrets, most of which involved achieving mystical power over one’s body and the physical world.

Scientology’s adherents likewise ascend through many steps on the path to cross the Void and become “clear,” which Hubbard promised would make them invulnerable to disease and capable of controlling other people’s actions. To achieve “clear,” however, Scientologists must give money and enact a number of rituals.

So that’s the guy who founded this particular church. While it’s drawn in many a starry-eyed Hollywood star over the years (including Tom Cruise and Leah Remini), one generally expects more from those hired by a pragmatist like Donald Trump.

 

John Zmirak is a senior editor at The Stream and author or coauthor of 14 books, including The Politically Incorrect Guide to Immigration and The Politically Incorrect Guide to Catholicism. His newest book is No Second Amendment, No First.