Pam Bondi out as attorney general

The president announced Bondi’s exit in a post Thursday on Truth Social.

Attorney General Pam Bondi is seen leaving the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House, on Feb. 20, 2026. | Alex Brandon/AP

President Donald Trump has ousted Pam Bondi as attorney general.

The president announced Bondi’s exit in a post Thursday on Truth Social, saying she would “be transitioning to a much needed and important new job in the private sector, to be announced at a date in the near future.”

Bondi’s abrupt exit concludes a yearlong tenure marked by the breakneck erosion of the firewall between prosecutorial decision-making and the whims of a president seeking to punish his enemies.

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