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Pam Bondi's Loyalty to Trump Wasn't Enough To Save Her Job

Ultimately, Bondi's fulsome defense of the president could not overcome blowback over her handling of the Epstein files.

Joe Lancaster | 4.2.2026 5:01 PM

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President Donald Trump announced Thursday that he is replacing Pam Bondi as U.S. attorney general.

"Pam Bondi is a Great American Patriot and a loyal friend, who faithfully served as my Attorney General over the past year," he wrote on Truth Social. He added that 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," and Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche would take over as acting attorney general.

Despite Trump's kind words and assurance that "we love Pam," Bondi has been fired, as news outlets reported was imminent.

Bondi ultimately became the face of a persistent scandal about the government's files on deceased financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, and though she was one of Trump's most vocal supporters, it wasn't enough to keep her job.

As the nation's highest law enforcement officer, Bondi........

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