President Donald Trump announced Thursday that he has removed Attorney General Pam Bondi, whom he called a “great patriot” and a “loyal friend,” and that her position will be filled on an interim basis by heretofore Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche.
“We love Pam very much, and she will be moving on to a new position – a very necessary and important one – in the private sector, which will be announced at an upcoming date,” Trump wrote on his Social Truth network.
Trump ousts Pam Bondi
According to Fox News, which broke the news shortly beforehand citing White House sources, Trump informed Bondi of his termination late Wednesday.
“Pam Bondi is a great American patriot and a loyal friend, who served faithfully as my attorney general for the last year,” Trump added in his message, which stated that the counsel “did an extraordinary job overseeing a massive crackdown on crime across our country.”
“Our deputy attorney general – an extremely talented and respected legal mind – Todd Blanche, will assume the position of acting attorney general,” the brief concludes.
Various media outlets began to speculate the day before that the New York tycoon’s patience with Bondi might have run out.
Since the matter of the Jeffrey Epstein child molester files began to play against the government in the middle of last year, Bondi has tried to close the file without apparent success.
Even among the Trumpist rank and file this is still seen as a convoluted and obscure case that the president has failed to clear up despite the Justice Department reluctantly eventually releasing hundreds of thousands of documents.
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🚨 BREAKING: Pam Bondi is being replaced by Deputy AG TODD BLANCHE in the interim, while President Trump decides on a full replacement – Fox’s @pdoocy
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– Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) April 2, 2026
In turn, the U.S. Attorney’s Office has reaped a series of setbacks in the courts in trying to indict various figures that Trump has vowed judicial revenge against, from New York Attorney General Letitia James, to six Democratic lawmakers who urged the U.S. military to disobey orders that were illegal, to Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell.
Bondi, 60, began publicly supporting Trump early last decade when she was Florida’s attorney general, and within the Cabinet he appointed in January 2025 she has been considered one of the most loyal figures to the U.S. president.
Blanche, 51, has defended as a lawyer several figures very close to Trump, such as former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani and has also represented Trump in the case related to the Republican’s undercover payments to porn actress Stormy Daniels.
As deputy attorney general, he has been in charge of leading a prison interrogation with Ghislaine Maxwell, ex-partner and chief procurer for the late child molester Jeffrey Epstein.
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With information from EFE
