The surprising thing isn’t that Donald Trump fired his attorney general Pam Bondi and appointed Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche her temporary successor. It’s that he waited as long as he did.

After exercising what is for him unusual restraint – his cabinet was in a state of perpetual upheaval during his first term as president – Trump is going on a firing spree. “He’s very angry, and he’s going to be moving people,” one top administration official told Politico yesterday. Next on the chopping block could be a host of Trump loyalists – Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-Remer, FBI Director Kash Patel, and Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard – whom the President has found wanting.

For all her florid professions of loyalty to Trump, Bondi ultimately failed to deliver the goods – the political prosecutions that her tempestuous boss insisted upon. The show trials, you could say, that never showed up. The case for tax and real estate fraud against New York attorney general Letitia James collapsed. The probe into former CIA director John Brennan appeared to be going nowhere. Conspiracy theories were swirling that a disloyal Bondi had tipped off Congressman Eric........

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