{"id":560656,"date":"2026-04-02T18:34:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T18:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/560656\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T18:34:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T18:34:14","slug":"trump-fires-pam-bondi-as-us-attorney-general-amid-epstein-files-furore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/560656\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump fires Pam Bondi as US attorney general, amid Epstein files furore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">US President Donald Trump removed Attorney General Pam Bondi from \u2060her post on Thursday, a White House \u2060official said, following mounting frustration with her performance, including her \u2060handling of investigative files related to the late financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Trump had also reportedly grown frustrated that Bondi was not moving quickly enough to prosecute critics and adversaries who he wanted to face criminal charges.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">In a social media post, Trump praised Bondi as a \u201cGreat American Patriot and a loyal friend\u201d and said she would move to a job in the private sector. Trump said Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, his former personal lawyer, will lead the Justice Department in the interim.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">During her tenure as the top US law enforcement official, Bondi was a combative champion of Trump\u2019s agenda and dismantled the Justice Department\u2019s \u200clong-standing tradition of independence from the White House in its investigations.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">But it was repeated criticism over the Epstein files, including from Trump allies and some Republican lawmakers, that came to dominate her tenure.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"US Attorney General Pam Bondi applauds as US President Donald Trump walks past her at an event in Memphis, Tennessee, on Monday. Photo: Reuters\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/3feaeade-af7f-4c8c-bc19-57a66f11d04b_ca1e4882.jpg\" title=\"US Attorney General Pam Bondi applauds as US President Donald Trump walks past her at an event in Memphis, Tennessee, on Monday. Photo: Reuters\"\/>US Attorney General Pam Bondi applauds as US President Donald Trump walks past her at an event in Memphis, Tennessee, on Monday. Photo: Reuters<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Bondi was accused of covering up or mismanaging the release of records on the DOJ\u2019s sex trafficking investigations into Epstein, a financier who cultivated ties with an array of wealthy and powerful figures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US President Donald Trump removed Attorney General Pam Bondi from \u2060her post on Thursday, a White House \u2060official&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":560657,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,128383,12,49590,2765,2808,5649,14825,16675,4801,3,25244,6369,21,19,22,20,25,24,3123],"class_list":["post-560656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-attorney-general-pam-bondi","tag-donald-trump","tag-epstein-files","tag-fbi","tag-florida","tag-house-of-representatives","tag-jeffrey-epstein","tag-justice-department","tag-kristi-noem","tag-news","tag-republican","tag-republican-lawmakers","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=560656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/560657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=560656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=560656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=560656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}