Trump ousts Bondi as attorney general

President Trump announced Thursday he has fired Attorney General Pam Bondi.

“Pam Bondi is a Great American Patriot and a loyal friend, who faithfully served as my Attorney General over the past year. Pam did a tremendous job overseeing a massive crackdown in Crime across our Country, with Murders plummeting to their lowest level since 1900,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.

“We love Pam, and she will be transitioning to a much needed and important new job in the private sector, to be announced at a date in the near future, and our Deputy Attorney General, and a very talented and respected Legal Mind, Todd Blanche, will step in to serve as Acting Attorney General.”

The Justice Department has not responded to a request for comment.

Bondi, a fierce defender of the president, has been under increasing scrutiny due to her handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files.

Under her leadership, the Justice Department has also experienced a string of embarrassing losses as prosecutors have failed to successfully mount cases against a number of foes of Trump.

Early in her tenure, Bondi sparked the wrath of the GOP base in organizing a White House meeting to discuss the Epstein files, where she largely released information already available to the public.

She later claimed to have a so-called client list of Epstein’s sitting on her desk, with the Justice Department then swiftly reversing. The department released a memo saying they had no such list while asserting evidence indicated the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein killed himself.

Even Trump’s chief of staff, Susie Wiles, told Vanity Fair in a series of wide-ranging interviews published last December that Bondi had botched the issue.

“I think she completely whiffed on appreciating that that was the very targeted group that cared about this,” Wiles said at the time.

The matter has captured the attention of lawmakers who have launched a bipartisan investigation that has come to dominate Congress, including a recent decision by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee to subpoena Bondi, a vote that secured the backing of five Republicans.

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