Trump fires Pam Bondi as attorney general
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Trump has been increasingly frustrated with Bondi in recent days, sources told NBC News.

Attorney General Pam Bondi has been fired, a senior administration official and a source familiar with the matter told NBC News. 

Donald Trump had grown “more and more frustrated”  with Bondi in recent days, a person familiar with White House deliberations said, adding that while he likes her as a person, he doesn’t think she has “executed on his vision” in the way that he wants. 

According to a source familiar with the decision, Todd Blanche will be the acting attorney general, effective immediately.

  • phoenixarise@lemmy.world
    45·
    4 months ago

    Hahaha all that bellowing about the Dow for nothing. 😂😂

    I hope the British government holds her accountable for not releasing information about Andy’s behavior.

    • TheTechnician27@lemmy.worldEnglish
      15·
      4 months ago

      Hahaha all that bellowing about the Dow for nothing.

      Well the DJI is below 50,000 now, so she’s out of defenses for him; she’s worn out her usefulness.

  • NoiseColor @lemmy.world
    23·
    4 months ago

    Don’t celebrate. She did her part, and there’s little doubt she’ll be rewarded with an extremely well-paying job and a political future.

    • waigl@lemmy.world
      13·
      4 months ago

      Eh, knowing Trump, the reward may stay a pipe dream. He’s like the least loyal tyrant ever, it’s baffling how anybody works for him expecting not to be eventually backstabbed or thrown under the bus.

      More over, whoever follows her will undoubtedly be worse. Supposedly Bondi was fired over her handling of the Epstein files, which probably means she was supposed to just break all the laws surrounding evidence and just destroy as much of the stuff as possible.

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
    16·
    4 months ago

    Todd Blanche:

    In his personal capacity, he represented several figures associated with president Donald Trump and former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani, including Trump’s former campaign manager, Paul Manafort; the businessman Igor Fruman; and the attorney Boris Epshteyn.

    In April 2023, prior to his arraignment, Trump hired Blanche to defend him in the District Attorney’s Office of New York County’s prosecution of the former president over concealed hush-money payments to Stormy Daniels. Blanche later defended him in the federal classified documents and election obstruction cases. He led Trump’s defense in his criminal trial.

    In November 2024, following his victory in the 2024 presidential election, Trump named Blanche as his nominee for deputy attorney general. He was confirmed by the Senate in March 2025.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Todd_Blanche

    Literally just hiring his own lawyers, decades after any competent lawyer stopped working for him…

  • WanderWisley@lemmy.world
    10·
    4 months ago

    Thank god the Dow was under 50k today when she was fired. The entire country might have been sucked into a black hole…

  • DarkFuture@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    4 months ago

    It’s a revolving door of fascists. So don’t expect anything better. Most likely worse as things continue to devolve.

    Imagine working for rapist Donald Trump knowing you’re going to get thrown under the bus and be a pariah for the rest of your life. Gotta be real stupid and/or evil.

  • Optional@lemmy.world
    1·
    4 months ago

    “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,”

    Transitioned to a private sector job to be determined is this year’s toilet tweet firing.