U.S. President Donald Trump fired Attorney General Pam Bondi after continued fallout over her handling of the DOJ’s files about sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Bondi’s dismissal on Thursday comes after reports that Trump was increasingly unhappy about her handling of Department of Justice files and the DOJ’s failure to successfully prosecute several of the president’s political enemies.
Trump said in a Truth Social post that Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche will serve as acting attorney general and called his former criminal defense lawyer Blanche a “very talented and respected Legal Mind.”
“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.
“Bondi did a tremendous job overseeing a massive crackdown in Crime across our Country, with Murders plummeting to their lowest level since 1900,” the president wrote.
“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,” Trump said.
Pam's ouster comes weeks after Trump terminated another cabinet member, Kristi Noem, as Department of Homeland Security secretary.
Noem was dismissed after backlash over DHS’ aggressive immigration enforcement in Minnesota, which led to the shooting deaths of two U.S. citizens by federal agents. Noem was replaced by Markwayne Mullin, who, until recently, was a U.S. senator representing Oklahoma.
Bondi, in a statement on X, said, “Over the next month I will be working tirelessly to transition the office of Attorney General to the amazing Todd Blanche before moving to an important private sector role I am thrilled about and where I will continue fighting for President Trump and this Administration.”
Rep. Thomas Massie, a Kentucky Republican whose bill mandating that the DOJ release all files related to Epstein became law in late 2025, said in an X post, “I support Trump firing Pam Bondi. Do you?”
“I hope the next AG will release all the Epstein files according to the law and follow up with investigations, prosecutions, and arrests,” Massie said.
Pamela Jo Bondi served as a prosecutor for 18 years before being elected Florida's attorney general in 2010, the first woman to hold the post and was re-elected to a second term in 2014.
Notably, the American politician Bondi, served as the 87th U.S. Attorney General from 2025-2026.
