Donald Trump has sacked Attorney General Pam Bondi, making her the second cabinet official to be dumped within weeks.
The president has chosen Bondi’s deputy Todd Blanche—Trump’s former personal lawyer—as her interim replacement.
The former Trump attorney interviewed Ghislaine Maxwell and oversaw her sweetheart prison deal, and has also been publicly prosecuting the case to not release all the files in the department’s possession.
But Bondi has been under fire for months over everything from her handling of the Epstein files and her lack of “deep state” prosecutions to her epic meltdown at a Congressional hearing last month.
While Trump had publicly praised Bondi as doing a “good job”, the president had become increasingly frustrated with his top law enforcer in recent weeks, complaining about her ability as a communicator and what he sees as the Justice Department’s lack of aggressiveness in going after his enemies.
Bondi’s departure comes less than a month after Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem was also fired following a string of scandals, from a taxpayer-funded luxury jet to her alleged affair with her adviser, Corey Lewandowski.
“Pam Bondi is a Great American Patriot and a loyal friend, who faithfully served as my Attorney General over the past year,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
Pam Bondi’s firing puts her one step closer to accountability, and that is something we should all celebrate, but not before we ensure every Democrat in the Senate votes against confirming Trump’s next Attorney General. Fascist collaborators don’t deserve an inch and any Democrat that bends should just leave the party at this point.
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