Trump Dismisses U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi

U.S. President Donald Trump announced this Wednesday that he has dismissed U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi, whom he has described as a “great patriot” and “loyal friend,” and that her position will be temporarily filled by the current Deputy Attorney General, Todd Blanche. “We love Pam very much, and she will move on to a new—very necessary and important—position in the private sector, which will be announced at a future date,” Trump wrote on his social media platform, Truth Social. According to Fox News, which broke the story earlier Wednesday citing White House sources, Trump informed Bondi of her dismissal late Wednesday evening. “Pam Bondi is a great American patriot and a loyal friend who faithfully served as my Attorney General over the past year,” he added in his message, stating that the lawyer “did an extraordinary job overseeing a massive offensive against crime across our entire country.” “Our Deputy Attorney General—a highly talented and respected legal mind—Todd Blanche, will assume the role of Acting Attorney General,” the statement concludes. What do we know about Pam Bondi's dismissal? Since the case of convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein began to work against the government mid-last year, Bondi has tried to put it to bed with apparent success. Even among Trump's base, it is still considered a convoluted and dark case that the president has not managed to clarify, despite the Department of Justice, reluctantly, eventually making public hundreds of thousands of documents. The Prosecutor's Office has suffered a series of setbacks in court when trying to prosecute various figures whom Trump has sworn to take legal revenge on, from the Attorney General of New York, Letitia James, to six Democratic lawmakers who urged the U.S. military to disobey orders that would be illegal, and the Chairman of the Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell. Bondi, 60, began to publicly support Trump in the early 2010s when she was Florida's Attorney General, and in the cabinet he appointed in January 2025, she has been considered one of the figures most loyal to the U.S. president. Blanche, 51, has defended as a lawyer several figures very close to Trump, such as former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, and has also represented Trump in the case related to the Republican's hush money payments to porn actress Stormy Daniels. As Deputy Attorney General, he was in charge of leading an interrogation in prison with Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein's ex-girlfriend and main recruiter for the late pedophile.