Confirming rumours ….
The second big name woman in the second Trump admin is gone from office….
Being a Donald Trump Attorney General would be a rough job for anyone….
But?
Handling the Epstein files rollout put Pam Bondi in an impossible place between her boss and Congress….
Dealing with a president who IS defiant to the law cost her support from her staff….
Tangling with Federal Judges up to the Supreme Court made things even worse…..
The nation’s top Law Enforcement Lawyer was working for a convicted felon who has little use for law except when he chooses to use it against others….
And THAT was increasingly NOT successful…
Replacing Bondi for now will be Todd Blanche...
NY Times…
President Trump fired Attorney General Pam Bondi on Thursday, removing the nation’s top law enforcement officer after privately venting his frustrations for months over her handling of the Epstein files and her failed efforts to prosecute his political enemies.
In a social media post, Mr. Trump said he was replacing Ms. Bondi with Todd Blanche, her deputy, on an interim basis.
“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,” Mr. Trump wrote.
Ms. Bondi is the second cabinet member in recent weeks to lose her job, after Mr. Trump ousted Kristi Noem, the secretary of homeland security, last month.
The firing of Ms. Bondi, 60, ends a turbulent 14-month tenure as attorney general in which she tried desperately to appease a boss who demanded unimpeded control of the Justice Department to pursue politically motivated investigations against targets of his choosing, even when prosecutors warned that there was no evidence to do so.
In the process, Ms. Bondi surrendered much of the department’s historic independence and oversaw the exodus of experienced career officials, leaving the department’s public corruption and national security units, along with many local U.S. attorneys’ offices, weakened and demoralized.
Yet Mr. Trump remained annoyed by Ms. Bondi’s inability to secure indictments of people he referred to as “scum” during a speech in the department’s Great Hall about a year ago.
The president’s support for Ms. Bondi has steadily eroded since last summer, when her early stumbles in managing the release of the Epstein files created a political liability for Mr. Trump among a segment of his supporters. He has also complained about her shortcomings as a communicator and TV surrogate — a role he thought would suit her talents.
Ms. Bondi spent much of the last day making her case to stay in the cabinet, according to two people familiar with the situation. But her team could sense those chances slipping away when Mr. Trump issued only a lukewarm statement when The New York Times requested comment on rumors she was about to be removed.
“Attorney General Pam Bondi is a wonderful person and she is doing a good job,” he said on Wednesday, a day before he announced that she was fired.
In recent weeks, Mr. Trump sent mixed signals, praising her loyalty in public, and he has spoken with her several times a week, sometimes to seek advice or test ideas, a person close to Ms. Bondi said.
On Wednesday, even as Mr. Trump was discussing with aides whether to fire Ms. Bondi, the president traveled with her to the Supreme Court to watch arguments in the case challenging his executive order limiting birthright citizenship. Ms. Bondi was also at the White House on Wednesday evening for Mr. Trump’s address to the nation on the war in Iran.
But he has also expressed continuing dissatisfaction with her performance, and increasingly engaged with her critics inside his circle of advisers.
Sentiment had also been turning against Ms. Bondi among congressional Republicans….
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Politico….
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.
The departure comes at a point of maximum turmoil for the Justice Department, which has seen an exodus of veteran prosecutors targeted for their perceived disloyalty to Trump, the collapse of trust from federal judges, a buckling under the weight of Trump’s mass deportation campaign, and intense blowback over its botched rollout of the Epstein files.
Signals of Trump’s frustration and Bondi’s pending demise surfaced this week after reports that Trump met with EPA boss Lee Zeldin and discussed tapping him for the AG role.
The White House and the Justice Department did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, Trump’s former criminal defense lawyer, will lead the department in an acting capacity, the president said. Blanche has been unusually visible in his role as Bondi’s deputy, embodying a Trumpian pugilism that has endeared him to the president — and raising eyebrows when he suggested the administration was at “war” with the courts.
What may turn out to be the most consequential moment for Bondi’s fate was the September social media post from Trump to “Pam,” demanding that she immediately begin prosecuting his adversaries.
“We can’t delay any longer, it’s killing our reputation and credibility. They impeached me twice, and indicted me (5 times!), OVER NOTHING. JUSTICE MUST BE SERVED, NOW!!!” Trump wrote.
Bondi obeyed, engineering leadership changes that resulted in the rapid-fire indictments of former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James. Yet both cases were quickly thrown out after a judge ruled Bondi’s handpicked prosecutor was illegally appointed.
Although Bondi pledged during her confirmation hearings not to target Trump’s political enemies, her Justice Department also launched other investigations Trump sought, like probes into Sen. Adam Schiff and Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell. But those inquiries never produced the quick action Trump hoped for and have yet to result in any charges….
image…Pam Bondi’s dismissal makes her the second cabinet member to lose her job in recent weeks.Credit…Eric Lee for The New York Times
So long Pam,we hardly knew ye!
Except as a lying , cheating thief who did everything she could to steal the 2020 election for Trump.
Rewarded by Trump for her attempted thievery,she is of no use him anymore and will be known as one of the lightest of lightweights ever to hold the office.
Yup!.….
NOT TOO Smart……
Then there’s the old “ fair and balanced as always” Republicans over at the Fox “ News” network.
They are savaging Bondi for mishandling the Epstein files.
Well, when your principal objective is to protect the rapist that the “ News” network spends most of their time zealously defending?Yeah there might be problems and if Bondi screwed up so badly?Dont think that her deputy ,now acting AG Todd Blanche wasn’t up to his neck in any alleged” missteps “ that the news network and various Republicans are now so “ concerned “ about .
The Boss IS a crook……
Doing ‘HIS’ job
Not THE Job makes u a accomplice
This week?
Things ARE catching up on ole Donald.,,,
Like I HAVE said
Things he touches tend to turn to shit
Waiting patiently for Miller and Hegseth to be dropped….