Attorney General Rob Bonta is a busy man these days. When he’s not filing frivolously woke lawfare against the Trump administration, he’s uh being very “responsive” to a criminal investigation that just might affect him.

Attorney General Rob Bonta’s political prospects hit a slight bump in the road when he was forced to disclose spending $468,000 in campaign funds on lawyers due to, what he claims is, being a witness in a federal bribery investigation. Bonta explained that “the attorneys that I have had been working around the clock, to be responsive, to be efficient, to be comprehensive, to be completely forthcoming in all of our information that we were providing in an effort to assist and help.”

Bonta’s problems began when the Duong family got raided along with Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao (now former mayor) who was accused of accepting kickbacks from the Duongs. The Duongs gave the Bontas over $172,000 which included tens of thousands to AG Bonta’s wife, Assemblywoman Mia Bonta, and since Bonta had to get rid of the money and has since spent nearly half a million on extremely “forthcoming” “around the clock” lawyers.

According to AG Bonta, the feds reached out to him as a “victim”, but the Mercury reported that the (nearly assassinated) witness warned that the Duongs had a recording of the attorney general in “a compromising position” and that they had blackmail recordings of various politicians that involved “illicit activities, including the use (of) drugs among other matters.”

“That is not true. There is no video and that is false,” Bonta denied.

There’s no video and there’s no gubernatorial race, the LA Times reveals in an article in which the state Attorney General claims that he’s just too busy with the sacred work of fighting Trump to even take the time out to breathe or run for governor.

California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta announced Sunday that he would not run for California governor, a decision he said was grounded in his belief that his legal efforts combating the Trump administration as the state’s top prosecutor are paramount at this time in history.

“In this moment, my place is here, on the front lines, in the trenches, serving as a bulwark, creating a protection around our state and our people, our values and our progress in the face of these vicious, inhumane, unlawful, cruel attacks from the Trump administration,” Bonta said in an interview Sunday night.

The LA Times does not get around to mentioning the minor fact of the Duong investigation until the last three paragraphs of the article.

Why? Because the LA Times is to journalism what Bonta is to upholding the law.